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Slave Play at Noel Coward Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray
11 Jul
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: SLAVE PLAY at Noel Coward

Another Broadway transfer has just landed in the West End, and given London’s multicultural make-up, together with its largely accepting normalisation of therapy and interracial couples’ counselling, it should prove an interesting, welcome and altogether exciting and challenging addition to the capital’s theatre skyline. On Broadway, SLAVE PLAY secured a record breaking 12 Tony nominations for a play, and if this evening’s opening was anything to go by, it may just achieve an equivalent feat this side of the Atlantic.

Slave Play at Noel Coward Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray Slave Play at Noel Coward Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray

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Alma Mater at Almeida Theatre
11 Jul
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: ALMA MATER at Almeida

At its heart, Kendall Feaver’s play ALMA MATER deals with the ever widening gap in the differing generational approaches to feminism. Set on a fictitious university campus, a student Paige (Liv Hill) claims to have been sexually assaulted and at first wants the experience to simply go away. Others see the incident as a rallying call to end what they perceive is an endemic rape culture largely condoned by silence.

Alma Mater at Almeida Theatre Alma Mater at Almeida Theatre.

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abigails party stratford east theatre cast
10 Jul
New Shows
Emmie Newitt

Cast announced for ABIGAIL'S PARTY at Stratford East

Mike Leigh's unmissable tragicomic portrait of social class, materialism, and sexual tension in 1970s England heads to the theatre this Autumn.

abigails party stratford east theatre castAbigail's Party cast photo. Photo provided by production.

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Julie Yamanee, Luke Harley, Jessi O'Donnell, and Sev Keoshgerian in I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at King’s Head Theatre. Credit Geraint Lewis
10 Jul
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL at King’s Head

The brainchild of Alexander S. Bermange, I WISH MY LIFE WERE LIKE A MUSICAL (which plays a short residency at the King’s Head Theatre until 21st July before continuing its national tour), follows in the strong British tradition of adding a musical twist to a subject worthy of the merest smidgeon of mockery. Here, everyone from the eager stage school auditionee, to the self-indulgent jaded diva, (not to mention badly behaved audience members — including theatre critics), come in for a justly deserved lampooning.

Julie Yamanee, Luke Harley, Jessi O'Donnell, and Sev Keoshgerian in I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at King’s Head Theatre. Credit Geraint LewisJulie Yamanee, Luke Harley, Jessi O'Donnell, and Sev Keoshgerian in I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at King’s Head Theatre. Credit Geraint Lewis.

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tom edden and jonathan slinger waiting for godot
10 Jul
Casts
Emmie Newitt

Further casting announced for WAITING FOR GODOT at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The new production of Samuel Beckett's play heads to the West End for a limited run from Autumn.

tom edden and jonathan slinger waiting for godotTom Edden and Jonathan Slinger headshots. Photos provided by production.

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