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Thomas Mahy gives a pitch perfect performance for his London stage debut in VINCENT RIVER
When Vincent River first starts you believe that Anita (Louise Jameson Dr. Who, Eastenders) and Davey (Thomas Mahy making his London stage debut) are total strangers but the realization of familiarity dawns quickly and uneasily. This is the first time they have met although Anita has seen Davey various times at a distance since the death of her…
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Ben Batt positively sizzles in Donmar Warehouse stunning revival of The York Realist
‘I live here. I live here. You can’t see that, though. You can’t see it. This is where I live. Here.’ This is a tremendous revival directed by Robert Hastie (Splendour, My Night with Reg) at the Donmar in London of a play set in a remote farmhouse in Yorkshire in the sixties about family,…
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An intoxicating mix of theatre cabaret & drag reveals a Hollywood icon’s extraordinary commitment to duty
Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, just like new? Such romantic illusions ……….. so goes the refrain to a Marlene Dietrich song….if you do then make sure you see Peter Groom in his one (wo)man show DIETRICH – NATURAL DUTY It is 1942, on the battlefields of North Africa, in a gold sequin…
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Becoming Dr Ruth: an affectionate portrait on the world’s most unlikely sex therapist
One of the many surprises in Mark St. Germain‘s biographical play about the U.S.’s most celebrated sex therapists Dr Ruth, is there not that much talk about sex at all. What his play does reveal however is the rather dark and shocking journey that this diminutive German Jewish woman took on the way to her…
