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Dust
26 Sep
Reviews
Monty Leigh

Review: DUST at Trafalgar Studios

Dust A clinical metal table, mirrors, a girl in wrapped bandages - ‘Fuck, I think this is the end.’ Dust, written and performed by the excellent Milly Thomas, is a one woman show about a girl called Alice who takes her own life. We meet her at the moment she ‘wakes up’ in her lonely afterlife and sees the chaos and pain she has left behind.

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The Human Voice - Gate Theatre
22 Sep
Reviews
Tim Winter

Review: THE HUMAN VOICE at the Gate Theatre

The Human Voice - Gate Theatre Jean Cocteau's monodrama from 1930, about the end of a love affair conducted over the telephone and heard solely from the jilted woman's side of the conversation, is given a contemporary makeover in this new version, written and directed by Daniel Raggett.

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Flawed ____like a b_y at The Glory
21 Sep
Reviews
Monty Leigh

Review: FLAWED ____LIKE A B_Y at The Glory

Flawed ____like a b_y at The Glory “Red wine, ecstasy and heavy rock” - Flawed like a boy is a coming of age and a coming out story, that allows an audience to smell, hear and feel the experiences of a queer man growing up in Australia from the 1980s until now.

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Songlines
20 Sep
Reviews
Christian Durham

Review: SONGLINES at HighTide Festival

Songlines After a stop off in Edinburgh and Aldeburgh, Hightide lands in Walthamstow for its two-week London season. A pop-up hub of music, comedy, food, family shows and theatre with plenty of exciting new writing.

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The Prisoner - National Theatre
19 Sep
Reviews
Justin Murray

Review: THE PRISONER at the National Theatre

Who is The Prisoner, Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne’s latest show, for? What effect is it trying to have on those people?

The Prisoner - National TheatreHervé Goffings and Kalieaswari Srinivasan in The Prisoner. Photo by Ryan Buchanan

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