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Window - The Bread & Roses Theatre
11 Sep
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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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Lions and Tigers
31 Aug
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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
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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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LOOT - Park Theatre
24 Aug
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Phil Willmott

Review: LOOT at the Park Theatre

LOOT - Park Theatre I can remember a time when productions of Joe Orton's comedies were as ubiquitous as Noel Coward's.

Although stylistically these gay writers couldn't be more different, both their work symbolised a theatrical era. If Coward was all about a mid Twentieth Century style and wit that has turned out to have timeless appeal, the spiky, surreal, dark humour of Orton's writing, conceived to shock and be anti-establishment in the 1960s, can either be roll-on-the floor hilarious or seem dated, infantile and tedious depending on the national mood of the decade in which it's performed.

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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
24 Aug
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Phil Willmott

Review: Understudy Katy Brittain triumphs in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF at the Apollo Theatre

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof I finally caught up with the much anticipated, much acclaimed West End revival of Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.

I'm happy to confirm that Sienna Miller as Maggie, the nervy and glamorous neglected wife of an ex-athlete and cat of the title, is as good as the reviews say (even on a Saturday matinee when some stars in other productions have been known to “phone it in”).

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