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‘Most of the work is done by the actors’: AMSTERDAM – Orange Tree Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz23rd September 2019Leave a Comment

New Israeli play Amsterdam about the effect of the past on the present is an open text which owes much too much to Martin Crimp.

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‘Raw, insightful & brutally honest’: CIRCA – Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Emma Clarendon20th March 2019Leave a Comment

Raw, insightful and brutally honest, Tom Ratcliffe’s play Circa returns to London following its premiere at The Vaults Festival in 2016.

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‘You can glimpse the seeds of a less ambitious but arguably better play’: CIRCA – Old Red Lion Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz14th March 2019Leave a Comment

Return of Tom Ratcliffe’s play Circa about gay life in today’s Britain: but it’s better at generalisation than at being specific.

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‘Feels curiously dated’: CIRCA – Old Red Lion Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster13th March 2019Leave a Comment

I was a big fan of Tom Ratcliffe’s VELVET at the VAULT Festival and so was intrigued to catch this production of his debut play Circa at the Old Red Lion Theatre.

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ONCE IN A LIFETIME – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster6th December 2016Leave a Comment

The end of the silent movie era and the arrival of the talkies has proved fertile ground for many a storyteller, not least Betty Comden and Adolph Green’s immortal Singin’ in the Rain, but Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s Once In A Lifetime has a serious claim to being one of the first.

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THE MIGHTY WALZER – Manchester

In Manchester, Opinion, Plays, Regional theatre, Reviews by Kristy Stott8th July 2016Leave a Comment

The wonderful and hilarious Man Booker Prize winner, The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson, bounces into the Royal Exchange in a world premiere stage adaptation by Simon Bent. Bent’s adaptation of The Mighty Walzer is a real scream, giving the Royal Exchange’s audience an uplifting dose of superb theatre to close the season on.

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