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Labour of Love
13 Oct
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review: James Graham's INK & LABOUR OF LOVE - St Martins Lane Theatres

Labour of Love The BIG sensation in London Theatre at the moment is the young playwright James Graham. In a few short years he’s gone from pub theatre to having two major plays running in the West End, in neighbouring theatres on St Martins Lane.

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In Memory of Leaves
12 Oct
Reviews
Justin Murray

Review: IN MEMORY OF LEAVES at Fordham Gallery Barge, Meanwhile Gardens & touring

In Memory of Leaves In Memory Of Leaves, written and performed by Natasha Langridge, is floating on its performance barge on to London communities affected by gentrification: Kensington, Camden, Hackney. Taking the form of diary entries written from 2014 to the present day, it follows Natasha in her storyteller persona as she is propelled on a journey from being evicted from her flat, to protesting with the Occupy movement, to volunteering in the Calais jungle, to watching the fallout of the Grenfell Tower disaster, all against the backdrop of a pair of love affairs.

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Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle
11 Oct
Reviews
Stuart King

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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Macbeth - Barbican
07 Oct
Reviews
Nicola Wright

Review: MACBETH at The Barbican

Macbeth - Barbican Two elderly women, their backs hunched, climb the steps to the stage and slowly draw back two vast doors to reveal the epic opening of The Ninagawa Company's production of Macbeth. With the three witches played by male actors in full Kabuki dress the scene is set for this epic visual feast.

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What Shadows - Park Theatre
06 Oct
Reviews
Stuart King

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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