theater
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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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We review Strangers In Between : London’s Trafalgar Studios 2
Full frontal nudity has its place in the theater, but Trafalgar Square Studios 2 is a really tiny venue. if you are sitting on the front row when the vulnerable lead character, Shane, disrobes at the end of the play (to devastating effect), you end up eyeball to ….well, you get the picture. Shane’s…
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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…
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Very Hot Cat On a Tin Roof
British born actor Jack O’Connell who identifies more with his Irish heritage, has been wowing audiences ever since his film debut as a teenaged skinhead, in the coming-of-age drama This Is England in 2006. He has this remarkable propensity for playing tough troubled young men, first in Skins, and then in his breakthrough starring role in Starred…
