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THE HEART OF THINGS Jermyn St Theatre SW1
POST COALITION TRISTIS… The best line in this rather overstuffed play comes from Keith Parry as Bob, a magnificently slow-thinking lummox. In the corner of a scruffy Norfolk kitchen Bob is the blinking, half-aware witness of an emotional scene in … Continue reading →
THE LAST OF THE DEMULLINS Jermyn St, SW1
AN OLD FIGHT HONOURED Sick of the patriarchy, girls? Take a safari to 1908 and visit the real thing. Witness the elephantine authority of Hugo deMullin, last of a line of beautifully pointless country squires, telling his 36-year-old daughter that … Continue reading →
Review: On Approval (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Following a season of sparkling jewel-box musicals, Anthony Biggs’ first production as Artistic Director of the Jermyn Street Theatre is Frederick Lonsdale’s 1926 comedy of manners On Approval. Although it’s a slight piece, the premise is intriguing: a domineering wealthy widow anxious to test the mettle of a hesitant romantic suitor agrees to take him […]
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Review: On Approval (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Following a season of sparkling jewel-box musicals, Anthony Biggs’ first production as Artistic Director of the Jermyn Street Theatre is Frederick Lonsdale’s 1926 comedy of manners On Approval. Although it’s a slight piece, the premise is intriguing: a domineering wealthy widow anxious to test the mettle of a hesitant romantic suitor agrees to take him […]
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Review: Boy Meets Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre)
When, in the mid-1980s, I picked the cheaply produced black-and-white printed original cast album of Boy Meets Boy out of a bargain bin in Tower Records, it instantly became a favourite show I’d never seen produced. A pastiche of every black-and-white Astaire/Rogers backstage musical with endlessly hummable, witty and clever songs, but destined not to […]
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Review: Boy Meets Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre)
When, in the mid-1980s, I picked the cheaply produced black-and-white printed original cast album of Boy Meets Boy out of a bargain bin in Tower Records, it instantly became a favourite show I’d never seen produced. A pastiche of every black-and-white Astaire/Rogers backstage musical with endlessly hummable, witty and clever songs, but destined not to […]
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