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Bruce Dessau

quoteA classic routine in every sense, shame the fresh material could not match itquote

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Nicholas de Jongh

quoteI have never seen a Pinter play so possessed by deathly foreboding, menace and covert gay desirequote

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Fay Maschler

quoteThe folksy, let-it-all-hang-out notion of sharing sits oddly in the confines of a formally decorated hotel dining roomquote

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quoteA beautiful restoration, peaceful ambience, fantastic service & delicious food - would definitely recommendquote

York & Albany Film

Mark, London

quoteOne of the worst movies I have seen. Was looking forward to a laugh ... not sure I laughed once! quote

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Theatre

Jennifer, London

quoteDavid Walliams is so out of his depth in this production that my friends and I were gripping the seats in embarrassmentquote

No Man's Land

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Theatre
In the Red and Brown Water

Red and Brown Water crafts hit from myths

No piece of total theatre could have better lived up to the promise of its title than Tarell Alvin McCraney's In The Red and Brown Water... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Radioplay

Fact and fiction in Radioplay

It takes an Irish actor banished to remotest Cornwall in childhood to cook up a monologue as witty and fanciful as Radioplay... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Love's Labour's Lost

David Tennant labours in lost cause

Having been drenched in critics' superlatives for his Hamlet, David Tennant takes on a riskier proposition by trying his hand at Love's Labour Lost... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre The Flooded Grave

Bright ideas in Broken Space Season

Ever-enterprising Artistic Director Josie Rourke has commissioned short pieces from 10 playwrights on the loose theme of darkness and light... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre No Man's Land

Walliams dazzles in No Man's Land

No Man's Land is chilling, thrilling Pinter in dream-land, relieved by flashes of sardonic amusement. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Australian Ballet

Rite doesn't get it right

Next May will be the 100th anniversary of the Paris debut of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The Australian Ballet is celebrating early... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Lord of the Flies

Teenage rampage in Lord of the Flies

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, Pilot Theatre Company has revived its award-winning production of Lord of the Flies... more |  Add your review 

 

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Theatre The Norman Conquests

Serious laughter in the master farce Norman Conquests

This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn's masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre radio golf

Social climbing, Pittsburgh-style in Radio Golf

Long-winded Radio Golf opens with insinuating promise but does not altogether grab the ear - or heart. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre scottish ballet

Nunez gets her prince in Swan Lake

Argentine-born dancer Marianela Nunez improves her performance in Swan Lake with a more convincing Odile and Odette. .. more |  Add your review 

 

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Theatre cradle me

Comfort from boy next door in Cradle Me

Cradle Me and SH*T-M*X provide a reminder its worth looking beyond the confines of the West End. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre In the Red and Brown Water

Southern poetry floods In the Red and Brown Water

In the Red and Brown Water indicates Tarell Alvin McCraney’s willingness to toy with the conventions of stagecraft. .. more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Waste

Recycled Waste has acting at its very finest

Waste itself taxes, tests and stretches the mind, but what an overwhelming experience, says Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Memory

Tortured by horrors in Memory

Jonathan Lichtenstein's 90-minute play, Memory, cannot be faulted for ambition, epic scope or meditative daring, says Nicholas de Jongh... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Aristo

Last years of Onassis

A resurgent Chichester wraps up its festival season with Martin Sherman’s meaty new bio-drama of Aristotle Onassis... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Creditors

Male is deadlier species in Strindberg revival

Alan Rickman's production of Creditors suggests Strindberg had a complex and disturbing view of human relations... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Dance Umbrella

Sense of humour in Dance Umbrella

It's fitting that Merce Cunningham should open Dance Umbrella. The veteran innovator was ever inspiration to the annual dance event... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre girl with a pearl earring

Girl with a Pearl Earring becomes soap opera

David Joss Buckley’s stage adaptation of Tracy Chevalier’s novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which became both an international best seller and Peter Webber’s superlative 2004 movie, works like a... more |  Add your review 

 
 


 
 
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