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‘You can’t fault the acting’: JITNEY – Old Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Rev Stan19th June 2022Leave a Comment

The thing is, you can’t fault the acting in Jitney at the Old Vic – the actors are superb. And Tinuke Craig’s expert direction means the cab office setting doesn’t feel static or forced. But the play takes a long time to get to the interesting stuff and then leaves a lot hanging.

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‘There are real moments of magic’: JITNEY – Old Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Other Recent Articles, Plays, Reviews by Maryam Philpott16th June 2022Leave a Comment

Jitney, revived at the Old Vic in a production by Tinuke Craig, is a piece that took the best part of 40 years to make it to Broadway in late 2016 after decades of smaller productions around America and at the National Theatre in 2001. Part

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‘The play is stunningly realised’: APOLLO 13 – THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON – Original Theatre (Online review)

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by John Chapman16th October 2020Leave a Comment

The whole creative and production team involved in Original Theatre Company’s Apollo 13: The Dark Side Of the Moon can be rightly proud of a superb job which really pushes at the frontiers of online drama.

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‘It is the small moments that matter’: APOLLO 13 – THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON – Original Theatre (Online review)

In Features, Musicals, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn9th October 2020Leave a Comment

While Original Theatre’s Apollo 13: The Dark Side of the Moon is largely filmed in the homes of actors, the audience is taken straight into the interior of the spacecraft as a mission which seems routine goes badly wrong.

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NEWS: Kerry Ellis makes her non-singing debut in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest on tour

In Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Regional theatre by Press Releases1st December 2017Leave a Comment

Kerry Ellis will star as Gwendolen, her first non-singing role, at selected venues in the 2018 UK tour of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – Young Vic Theatre

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Ian Foster24th February 2017Leave a Comment

Joe Hill-Gibbins’ idiosyncratic 2015 take on Measure for Measure filled the Young Vic with inflatable sex dolls so it should come as little surprise that for his A Midsummer Night’s Dream, he and designer Johannes Schütz have transformed the stage into a muddy paddock.

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