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- Richard Cotter
It’s a thrilling production that makes this sixty year old classic seem newly minted. Fresh.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Playing for 70 years, The Mousetrap is famously the longest running play on The West End. Its ongoing popularity has made it a cultural institution, and it has become as much a part of tourists’ “must see” lists as The Tower of London.
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- Rebecca Whitton
Looking for Alibrandi is an adaptation of a popular young adult coming-of-age novel about a teenage girl, Josie trying to forge her own identity whilst straddling the cultures of her poor, traditional Italian family and the privileged, predominantly Anglo culture of her private school.
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- Richard Cotter
Mother May We is the debut solo show of Mel Ree, and through consummate gesture and costume, genuine warmth and charm, and an infectious energy, she immerses us in a wholehearted journey of reconciliation with her past.
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- Marika Bryant
What is your story? How would you depict 'your journey' mid-way through your life? Would you take the high road, or the low road? Self-talk yourself up (the new 'selfie') or deprecate yourself into your base addiction?
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- Marika Bryant
What a joy. Pure joy. As the last song played us into the night, "wish I knew what you were looking for... might have known what you would find." The audience knew they had found pure gold.
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- Richard Cotter
The double helix of race and gender discrimination is enthrallingly explored in Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51, the story of Rosalind Franklin, and her pivotal role in unlocking the structure of DNA.
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- Richard Cotter
A bare stage with a covered table and a chair, sheets of paper scrunched up in angry origami littering the floor. It’s a simple image that softly, surely becomes part of the narrative .
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