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"It seemed that honest vivid reviewing was a kind of duty: not merely a service to readers and potential ticket-buyers but to the art of theatre itself." Written by former Chief Theatre Critic at The Times, Libby Purves, Theatre Cat is a wonderfully tight review blog.
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AT THE SUMMIT OF RAGE AND HOPE Fear not, this isn’t a Greta-gloom lecture but a lively, imaginative, borderline wild reconstruction of the years culminating in COP3 climate summit in 1997. Kyoto was historic in the ..read more
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1w ago
NO SINKING FEELINGS HERE, GIRLFRIEND Call it a jukebox musical if you like, but only if the jukebox came alive, went rogue and started tottering around the stage on rubber feet hurling insults and doing its own thing like the ..read more
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1M ago
SACRED MONSTERS IN THE UNDERWORLD Deep darkness within the U-shaped seating,: into it on wheels glides the dark gondola: Charon the ferryman, after millennia punting to and fro across the Styx, is resigned to hearing jokes like “dead on ..read more
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1M ago
A HIGH-KICKING WOODEN WONDER Serious fun, this. Never liked the Disney Pinocchio, or even in childhood the over-preachy Carlo Collodi book about the defiant wooden puppet who defies his creator Gepetto and falls in with a talking ..read more
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1M ago
PRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER. AND MELANCHOLY. AND FALSE NOSES In a play as familiar as this it is small touches that spring fresh life. Like the moment when the fool Feste defines drunkards: “one draught above heat ..read more
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1M ago
SPRINGTIME FOR…EVERYONE Joyful, headlong and full-hearted, here comes sacred outrage. If director Patrick Marber and the Menier had been minded to issue wet ‘trigger warnings’ it would take up so much extra paper we’d be re-triggered by ..read more
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1M ago
MAZELTOV! JEWISH PANTO STRIKES AGAIN Goldie Frocks, rightful heiress to an East End schmutter workshop, has been enslaved by the evil Calvin Brine, whose behemoth of too-small clothes for annoyingly thin people has driven the bears who ..read more
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1M ago
FEARED IT MIGHT BE TUTU MUCH, BUT NO… I immediately fell for Frankie Bradshaw’s set: a two- storey house lined with fossil skeletons in cases, and a spirited opening in which the prime mover – Great Uncle Matthew ..read more
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1M ago
LOOK BEYOND THE LETTUCE It is a tribute to Greg Wilkinson’s monologue play that I had not previously seen the rise and fall of Liz Truss as having a gripping dramatic line. It had seemed like just ..read more
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1M ago
HIGH SPIRITS, HIGH COMEDY, EVEN HIGHER HEELS Elton John, who jumped at the idea of writing the music, calls the 2006 film a favourite; many of us nod in blissful agreement. Based on a semi- autobiographical ..read more