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Sacrifice - Ardent8
06 Aug
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: SACRIFICE at Soho Theatre

Sacrifice - Ardent8 Ardent8 are currently presenting a new play SACRIFICE at Soho Theatre, the primary object of which is to offer an opportunity for talented regionally-trained performers to demonstrate their acting smarts to a London audience. Thankfully, they deliver.

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Sheila Atim as Emilia and André Holland as Othello. Photo Simon Annand
04 Aug
Reviews
Stuart King

Review: OTHELLO at Shakespeare’s Globe

Plays about jealousy, envy, passion and amorous lust, must have seemed a-dime-a-dozen in Shakespeare’s day.

Here we go again at The Globe with OTHELLO, hot(ish) on the heels of London’s last notable foray into the world of Venetian military intrigue and apparent marital betrayal (The National’s 2013 production, in which Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear played the Blackamoor and his long-time military comrade, Iago).

Sheila Atim as Emilia and André Holland as Othello. Photo Simon AnnandSheila Atim as Emilia and André Holland as Othello. Photo Simon Annand

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Dark in the Water
03 Aug
Reviews
Alexander Huetson

Review: DARK IN THE WATER at the White Bear, Kennington

Dark in the Water Upon entering the White Bear Pub I'm struck by the beauty of the pub's interior – more like an airy time capsule to a former golden age.

Upstairs the stage is small, with a simple panel fenced backdrop, a table, a phone and a radio. All essential plot devices as we later find out. 2 actors wait to spring into action, with an eery framed picture behind them, alluding to a nightmare.

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Richard Harrington as Johnny and Katherine Parkinson as Judy in Home I'm Darling Photo by Manuel Harlan
03 Aug
Reviews
Nicky Allpress

Review: HOME, I’M DARLING at The Dorfman Theatre

Katherine Parkinson is candy stripe heaven, dusting and jiving, fixing her Johnny a Gimlet as he walks in the door, but Judy is hiding her worries in a mixing bowl.

Richard Harrington as Johnny and Katherine Parkinson as Judy in Home I'm Darling Photo by Manuel HarlanRichard Harrington as Johnny and Katherine Parkinson as Judy in Home I'm Darling. Photo by Manuel Harlan

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House on Haunted Hill
03 Aug
Reviews
Monty Leigh

Review: HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL at the Tara Theatre then the Pleasance Dome at Edinburgh Fringe

House on Haunted Hill Self proclaimed ‘professional idiots’ The Lampoons revive their re-imagining of William Castle’s 1959 American Film Horror “The House On Haunted Hill” – a film starring Vincent Price who offers a $10,000 prize to five strangers if they are able to survive one night at his haunted house. The Lampoons are off to Edinburgh, and I highly encourage you add them to your list.

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