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Magic Mike Live
08 Sep
Reviews
Nicola Wright

Review: MAGIC MIKE LIVE at The Hippodrome Casino

Magic Mike Live Arriving at the specially refurbished theatre space at London's Hippodrome Casino, I was greeted by an enthusiastic young man eager to know if I was excited for what I was about to experience. My honest answer was ...I wasn’t sure.

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The Crown Dual
06 Sep
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: THE CROWN DUAL at Wilton’s Music Hall

The Crown Dual The charmingly fusty environs of Wilton’s Music Hall play host to one of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe successes - THE CROWN DUAL - a frenetic, sometimes slapstick homage to (and parody of), the Netflix multi-award winning drama about the royals.

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Diana (Lindsay Duncan) and Robin (Alex Jennings) in Hansard at the National Theatre. Photo by Catherine Ashmore
04 Sep
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: HANSARD at the National Theatre

Tory politicians have been much in the news of late. At the National’s Lyttelton, another (this time fictitious) Eton-spawned grandee, is placed front and centre in newcomer Simon Woods’ first commissioned play, HANSARD.

Diana (Lindsay Duncan) and Robin (Alex Jennings) in Hansard at the National Theatre. Photo by Catherine AshmoreDiana (Lindsay Duncan) and Robin (Alex Jennings) in Hansard at the National Theatre. Photo by Catherine Ashmore

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The Secret River - National Theatre
03 Sep
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review: THE SECRET RIVER at the National Theatre

The Secret River - National Theatre There’s so much that’s satisfying and so much that’s frustrating about Andrew Bovell’s adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel about early British settlers in Australia.

It’s a production by Sydney Theatre Company from 2013 that is apparently something of a classic in antipodean theatre.

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Amanda Abbington (Anne), Laurie Kynaston (Nicolas) and John Light (Pierre). The Son. Photo by Marc Brenner
03 Sep
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: THE SON at Duke of York’s Theatre

Michael Longhurst directs THE SON, the final segment in lauded french playwright Florian Zeller’s loose trilogy (The Father, The Mother, The Son) which has just begun a limited West End transfer at The Duke of York’s theatre.

Amanda Abbington (Anne), Laurie Kynaston (Nicolas) and John Light (Pierre). The Son. Photo by Marc Brenner Amanda Abbington (Anne), Laurie Kynaston (Nicolas) and John Light (Pierre). The Son. Photo by Marc Brenner.

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