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Derek Malcolm

quoteIt’s amazing to learn they did any research at all — unless it was into farting and foreskinsquote

Derek Malcolm Year One Theatre

Henry Hitchings

quoteThis will appeal to those who grew up with the book as well as to anyone seeking family-friendly entertainmentquote

Henry Hitchings Carrie's War Music

Rick Pearson

quoteWith a smile that splits her face, the frizzy-haired singer fills her songs with playfulness and wide-eyed wonderquote

Rick Pearson Regina Spektor

Reader reviews

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Russell. Hertfordshire

quoteIf you are feeling totally fed up with your lot at the moment with the economic squeeze - go see this filmquote

Sunshine Cleaning Theatre

Heather, London

quoteI thought this was an excellent, powerful production. The staging and acting were superb, it is well worth going to seequote

Observe The Sons Of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme Music

Debbie & Bill Holmes

quoteAbsolutely AMAZING show that went like a train for three hours solid and didn't waiver once!quote

Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band

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Memories of Matsuko

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Matsuko's memories fit into place

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  12.06.08
 
Memories of Matsuko

Dancing days: Miki Nakatani plays a schoolteacher who falls from grace

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Tetsuya Nakashima, who made the excellent Kamikaze Girls (now showing), tells the tale of Shou (Eita), a feckless young man who finds the body of a female tramp in a park and embarks on a journey to investigate her life.

The old woman turns out to have been a teacher called Matsuko, who fell from grace into prostitution. Miki Nakatani is good as Matsuko as Nakashima blazes retrospectively through the decades from the Fifties to the Eighties with stunning visuals and strange musical set pieces. Somehow it all makes sense, even if a lesser director might well have botched it.

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