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Window - The Bread & Roses Theatre
11 Sep
Reviews
Daniel Perks

Review: WINDOW – Bread and Roses Theatre, London

Window - The Bread & Roses Theatre Ron Elisha’s Window is a relaxed, natural two-hander that charts the emotional strain inherent in any couple’s relationship. Except in this case, the fights and fears that Grace (Idgie Beau) and Jimmy (Charles Warner) experience are reactions to their unexpected involvement in the sex life of a naked couple living across the street. At first, it’s a fascination, a piece of real-life entertainment – something to watch when curled up in bed with popcorn. But it quickly warps into a bleak mirror that reflects insecurities in their own marriage back at them. In this case, this is a Window into the soul.

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Will Young in Cabaret
07 Sep
News
Phil Willmott

Berlin Cabaret comes to the West End.... and Wimbledon

Will Young in Cabaret With the musical of Cabaret preparing to go back on tour why not satisfy your inner Sally Bowles and check out what's described as "Berlin's best burlesque act" when it stops off for one night at the rather glamorous cabaret room in the Hippodrome Casino just off Leicester Square.

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Open Air Theatre
01 Sep
News
Phil Willmott

Make a Date for Some Critically Acclaimed, Free, Open-Air Theatre, this Weekend

Open Air Theatre If you fancy some free, critically acclaimed open-air theatre over the next couple of days why not catch one of the last performances of my production of The Odyssey, a re-imagining of one of the world's greatest adventure stories.

Ancient Greece's epic text is presented as a thrilling open-air theatre experience played out in The Scoop amphitheatre overlooking Tower Bridge - and it's completely free.

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Lions and Tigers
31 Aug
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review: LIONS AND TIGERS at The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare’s Globe

Lions and Tigers To mark the 70th anniversary of India’s independence the Globe theatre have commissioned playwright Tanika Gupta to dramatise key events in the lead up to the partition of what was formerly British India. As a central focus Gupta adapts her family history concerning her grandfather’s brother Dinesh, a Bengali revolutionary (or terrorist and would-be martyr depending on your perspective) drawing upon his letters written during imprisonment.

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Girl from the North Country
31 Aug
Reviews
Phil Willmott

Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at the Old Vic

Girl from the North Country I'd heard conflicting things about this show, most of the reviews have been glowing but the New York Times critic and a few of my friends had been less enthusiastic.

I'm glad I didn't listen to them and checked it out for myself because I thought it exceptional.

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