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BEGINNING at the National Theatre
19 Oct
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Review: BEGINNING at the National Theatre

BEGINNING at the National TheatreThe Dorfman, National Theatre, plays host to BEGINNING, a new play by David Eldridge set entirely within a Crouch End flat belonging to Laura (Justine Mitchell).

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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle
11 Oct
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Review: HEISENBERG: THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE - Wyndhams Theatre

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle Simon Stephens’ two-hander, Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle first seen on Broadway back in 2015, pairs the superb talents of Anne Marie Duff with Kenneth Cranham for the play's West End run at Wyndhams Theatre.

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What Shadows - Park Theatre
06 Oct
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Review: WHAT SHADOWS, Park Theatre

What Shadows - Park Theatre At a time when the subject of immigration has re-emerged as a political hot potato - as it was in the late 1960s - WHAT SHADOWS (currently playing at The Park Theatre), examines the life of Conservative minister Enoch Powell, whose contribution to the debate about Englishness and national identity through his Birmingham ("Rivers of Blood") anti-immigration speech, marked him out as both an influential orator and one of the most divisive politicians of the 20th century.

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Ramona Tells Jim - Bush Theatre
26 Sep
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Review: RAMONA TELLS JIM, Bush Theatre

Ramona Tells Jim - Bush Theatre Ramona and Jim meet as teenagers in the Scottish Highlands. He's local, she's on a field trip from Englandshire. They are quirky, nerdy, articulate (in that weirdly teenage kinda way) and physically awkward (again, in that weirdly teenage kinda way)! Also, their hormones are clearly running riot, for it soon becomes apparent that they are immensely attracted to each other.

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School of Rock The Musical
25 Sep
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Review: SCHOOL OF ROCK at the New London Theatre

School of Rock The Musical Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Julian Fellowes (hardly the types generally associated with rebelliousness), are ‘the talent’ behind this stage adaptation of Richard Linklater’s 2003 film, in which a down-on-his-luck, guitar-playing slob, Dewey Finn (played with gusto in the West End by Gary Trainor), surreptitiously wangles a job as a supply teacher at a posh prep school, where he introduces his already musically talented young charges, to the joys of rock.

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