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2013

Fallen In Love ★★★

Drama - London, UK
Rivka Jacobson

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On 19 May 1536 Anne Boleyn and her brother, George, lost their heads at the Tower of London. Fast forward 477 years, only yards from the place of their execution the Suffolk based theatre company,...
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2013

Varmints☆☆☆☆

Dance Theatre - London, UK
Lucien Asbury-Perret (8 years old)

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With climate change already having an effect on the lack of seasons and extreme changes in weather, “Varmints” felt really relevant and potent in its ecological message to its young audience...
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2013

Hutch **

Musical - London, UK
Christopher Sack

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Hutch is a musical with great potential, based on a fascinating character from the jazz age, but while providing a pleasant enough musical distraction it fails to create a compelling narrative or to...
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2013

Pastoral ☆☆☆☆

Drama - London, UK
Rowena Hawkins

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Ecological disaster waits for no man, not even the Ocado delivery man. Anna Calder-Marshall shines in Thomas Eccleshare's new play 'Pastoral' as the eccentric and endearing old Moll,...
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2013

4000 Miles ☆☆☆

Drama - London, UK
Pauline Flannery

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Time has its signatures in American playwright Amy Herzog’s play, 4000 Miles, at The Print Room. Written for her paternal grandmother, Leepee Joseph, Vera is 91 her grandson, Leo, 21.The play’s...
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2013

Dialogues des Carmélites *****

Opera - Toronto, Canada
Aparna Halpé

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The Canadian Opera Company brings Robert Carsen's famed production of Poulenc's Dialoges des Carmélites to Toronto for the very first time. This production demonstrates, once more, the...
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2013

Passion Play ☆ ☆ ☆

Drama - London, UK
Urvashi Vashist

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Twenty-five years into their marriage, Eleanor (Zoë Wanamaker) and James (Owen Teale) find their mutually monogamous, seeming tranquillity disrupted by Kate (Annabel Scholey), a globe-trotting...
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2013

Sons Without Fathers ☆☆☆

Drama - London, UK
Oscar O’Sullivan

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Helena Kaut-Howson’s new adaptation of Chekhov’s Platonov is billed as ‘A tale of sex, vodka and shattered dreams’, and it delivers buckets of all three. The audience meets the...
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2013

The Hothouse ☆☆☆☆

Drama - London, UK
Rivka Jacobson

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Chillingly funny, Pinter’s 1958 play, The Hothouse, is wedged between the absurd and realism, fantasy and reality, life and death, sanity and madness. It opens a window into the macabre face...
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2013

Wozzeck☆☆☆☆

Opera - London, UK
Pauline Flannery

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Wozzeck,composed by Alban Berg, is based on the incomplete playscript by Georg Buchner written between the years 1914 and 1922, while Berg was a soldier. Its a-tonal style is challenging. Yet in this...
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2013

Chris Smyrnios, artistic director and chief executive of Southwark Playhouse in conversation with Ellie Buchdahl

Ellie Buchdahl

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In dark, dingy vaults under London Bridge, with trains rattling overhead and musty concrete floors, the Southwark Playhouse had it all when it came to theatrical atmosphere. But I meet Chris Smyrnios,...
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2013

Charles Castronovo - round the coffee table with Ellie Buchdahl and Rivka Jacobson

Ellie Buchdahl

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Charlie’s eyes light up at our offer of a cappuccino and a croissant – “one of those almond ones if that’s ok, those are really good”. He’s cute – cute...
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2013

Sebastian Armesto and Dudley Hinton of Simple8 Theatre Company in conversation with Richard Voyce

Richard Voyce

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Simple8 is a theatre company formed in 2004 to mount bold new theatre pieces using sizeable casts, but on a shoestring budget. Their new show, Moby Dick, currently packing them in with a whole slew...
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Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis

Tom Aitken

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Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis The Arden Shakespeare (Third Series), 2012 PB £18.99 HB £65.00 Review by Tom Aitken This is a wide-ranging,...
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