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NEWS: Matt Henry makes his Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Barrie Rutter’s production of The Two Noble Kinsmen

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases by Press Releases16th April 2018Leave a Comment

Olivier Award winner for musical Kinky Boots, Matt Henry will make his Shakespeare’s Globe debut in Barrie Rutter’s The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, opening in The Globe on 25 May (press night is 30 May).

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‘What if humans weren’t the dominant species?’: GREAT APES – Arcola Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin21st March 2018Leave a Comment

Great Apes at the Arcola Theatre is a fascinating play that is both wildly entertaining and extremely thought-provoking.






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FATHERLAND – Manchester International Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Manchester, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews, Touring by Kristy Stott14th July 2017Leave a Comment

Fatherland has been described as a verbatim piece, though it is unclear how much the stories have been edited to fit the trio’s own agenda.






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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster2nd February 2017Leave a Comment

This particular ‘new town’ was designed to rehouse the overspill population from the poorer parts of Liverpool but the forced creation of new communities is rarely so simple as that, and it is this impact that McLean explores here, by following the thread of a 30 year friendship.






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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz2nd February 2017Leave a Comment

The story starts in 2009 with Paul, a fortysomething professional who works in computing, returning to his home town, Skelmersdale, a 1960s overspill from Liverpool. Now living in Dublin, he’s come to see his mother, Hazel, who migrated to Britain from Ireland because she was an unmarried mother.






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YEARS OF SUNLIGHT – Theatre 503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz1st February 2017Leave a Comment

New play about two friends who grow up together is well structured, if a bit slender.






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HOBSON’S CHOICE – West End

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Libby Purves16th June 2016Leave a Comment

A hairdo can be eloquent. When Bryan Dick as Willie Mossop first emerges quaking with humility from a trapdoor under old Hobson’s shop, above a flapping leather apron and ragged shirt his dishevelled hair sports the nerdiest of centre partings – borderline imbecile indeed, with sad flapping black locks ei






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