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‘A great revival giving much food for thought’: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE – Donmar Warehouse ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis18th June 2018Leave a Comment

Findlay’s finely tuned production is full of nuance and provides a singular, emotive finale in which responsibility, influence, life choices, aspiration and limitation are all beautifully conveyed within Miss Brodie herself and her relationship with her “gerls”.

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‘A great, absorbing revival’: MACHINAL – Almeida Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis16th June 2018Leave a Comment

Natalie Abrahami has done Sophie Treadwell proud. A great, absorbing revival. Wouldn’t it be nice to see other Treadwell plays given a run?!

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‘An encounter with the recent past that tells us a lot about ourselves now’: SHIRLEYMANDER – Playground Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis29th May 2018Leave a Comment

Within a stone’s throw of Grenfell Tower, Gregory Evans’ tale of greed, ambition and plain heartlessness, Shirleymander tells the darkest of stories with a very light touch.

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‘The play has worked its magic again’: AS YOU LIKE IT – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis20th May 2018Leave a Comment

Here, in Shakespeare’s, 400 years ago, actors ‘conjured’ and beguiled their audiences. And so here, too, in 2018, theatre and As You Like It has again worked its magic.

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‘Instructive for a whole new generation’: THE INHERITANCE – Young Vic ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis1st April 2018Leave a Comment

In its incorporation of Howards End and the conversation between its fictional literary inspiration and its contemporary – Matthew Lopez – The Inheritance manages to create something wholly fresh and original about denial, truth and progress.

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‘Comes as something of a shock’: THE GREAT WAVE – National Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis23rd March 2018Leave a Comment

Francis Turnly’s The Great Wave, at the National Theatre, is as good a portrait of the rule of fear and its consequences as we’re likely to see this or any year.

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‘Kelly plays a blinder’: GIRLS & BOYS – Royal Court Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis26th February 2018Leave a Comment

One helluva writer, that Kelly and his ‘muse’, Carey Mulligan. Will Girls & Boys transfer? It would be a sell-out, if arduous to maintain, I imagine for Mulligan. Time will tell…

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‘Curiously admirable’: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK – Barbican Theatre ★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis26th February 2018Leave a Comment

Victoria’s Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan Theatre’s joint production of Picnic at Hanging Rock does have its moments of scariness and there are fine, spirited performances from its quintet of female actors.

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‘Myriad quick-fire changes’: NAPOLEON DISROBED – Arcola Theatre ★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis23rd February 2018Leave a Comment

Told by an Idiot’s stage adaptation of Simon Leys’ acclaimed counter to the-great-man-of-history novella The Death of Napoleon though asks the useful question that gels nicely with the common stock of our age of conspiracy theories and ‘fake news’. What if…?

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‘Something doesn’t quite gel’: GUNDOG – Royal Court Theatre ★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Carole Woddis16th February 2018Leave a Comment

An interesting corrective to those soft-focus romantic images of rural equanimity, in the end, Gundog doesn’t quite come off. But, like grandad’s homily to his family, Longman too has bravely tried to capture something of the eternal and intangible: human attachment to the land.

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‘A great revival giving much food for thought’: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE – Donmar Warehouse ★★★★

‘A great, absorbing revival’: MACHINAL – Almeida Theatre ★★★★

‘An encounter with the recent past that tells us a lot about ourselves now’: SHIRLEYMANDER – Playground Theatre ★★★★

‘The play has worked its magic again’: AS YOU LIKE IT – Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★★

‘Instructive for a whole new generation’: THE INHERITANCE – Young Vic ★★★★

‘Comes as something of a shock’: THE GREAT WAVE – National Theatre ★★★★

‘Kelly plays a blinder’: GIRLS & BOYS – Royal Court Theatre ★★★★

‘Curiously admirable’: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK – Barbican Theatre ★★★

‘Myriad quick-fire changes’: NAPOLEON DISROBED – Arcola Theatre ★★★★

‘Something doesn’t quite gel’: GUNDOG – Royal Court Theatre ★★★

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