Under the Skin The Old Red Lion Theatre
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Under the Skin

Yonatan Calderon’s powerful 2013 play about Holocaust survivor Charlotte Rosner is lyrical, though it fails to reach its full dramatic potential. Firs...
The Moor, Old Red Lion Theatre
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The Moor

Bronagh (Jill Mcausland) is a young woman caught in the house of her childhood with an abusive partner and a baby. The surrounding moor becomes the st...
Review by Nicole Kent
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Mrs Orwel

Mrs Orwell is a play about George Orwell (Peter Hamilton Dyer) and his second wife Sonia Brownell (Cressida Bonas), a junior editor at the magazine, H...
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Where Do Little Birds Go

The one-woman-show starts off like a kitsch Broadway musical, with shiny lights and a brightly smiling lead actress. But the bubble bursts soon, as tw...
Ugly Lovely Old Red Lion Theatre
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Ugly Lovely

It felt apt that the Welsh football team were dismantling European heavyweights Belgium in the Euro 2016 quarter-final match in the pub below the Old ...
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Correspondence

It’s 2011 - a young man has just immolated himself in Tunisia and the Arab Spring is kicking off across the Middle East. Meanwhile in Stockport Ben wr...
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Botallack O’Clock

Third Man Theatre have brought Botallack O’Clock back to London after five years, and it is an absorbing experience, perfect in performance and execut...
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Asking Rembrandt

What does someone ask for when they commission art? Something beautiful, a status symbol, an artist’s ‘vision’? And how does the money and expectation...
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The Verb, “To Love”

Boasting one of the oldest pub theatres in London, the Old Red Lion in Islington reaches out to the LGBT community, but this uplifting account of the ...
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Portia Coughlan

Boasting one of the oldest pub theatres in London, the Old Red Lion in bustling and trendy Islington usually fills its small auditorium with an apprec...