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Volpone

Trevor Nunn has created a strikingly intelligent production of Volpone that is very sharp indeed in its observations of the corruption of a class-ridd...
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4.48 Psychosis

To enter the crypt where this play is staged, the audience must first push past obstacles in the entrance - although they are light and easily-moved, ...
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Every Brilliant Thing

Poignant, funny, serious, naive, sophisticated... Every Brilliant Thing is an outstanding piece of theatre. The venue, a pop-up theatre that is assemb...
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Love Me Tender

It is my growing opinion that the modern compendium musical is the replacement for old time vaudeville or music hall: for a popular entertainment that...
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The Producers

I happen to have seen this show in its original productions in New York and London as well as the film of the musical version and the original 1967 ve...
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Merchant of Venice

Polly Findlay’s Merchant of Venice is a decidedly mixed bag, like the giant pendulum which swings at the back of the stage, it moves from the ridiculo...
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Othello

Iqbal Khan’s production of Othello has a deep split running through its middle. The first half is expansive and fast moving with the set changing flui...
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Studying Hamlet

Performed in a church in Shoreditch, with the audience sitting on pews only feet from the actors, this is an innovative and intimate exploration of Ha...
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Intermezzo

This is a difficult opera to like. Strauss wrote his great operas between 1905 and the start of the Great War – after 1914 he struggled to find the su...