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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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Mark, London

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

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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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Spyski

Spyski is Wilde send up of Bond

A lovably ramshackle set and props are a large part of Spyski's charm along with the cracking script from John Nicholson... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Mariinsky

Forsythe sagging in Sadler's Wells

The Mariinsky's first new-ish mixed bill at Sadler's Wells devoted to William Forsythe was disappointing, says Sarah Frater... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre How to Disappear

Identity search in How to Disappear Completely

It's not difficult to see why Fin Kennedy's How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found won the John Whiting Award for new writing... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Mine

Mine is all about motherhood

Mine is a sensitively handled panorama of emotions about what it means to be part of a family and to want to create a new one... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Manon

Manon strives for perfection

Manon is a risk-taker's ballet. There has to be abandon in the duets MacMillan created for Manon and her lover Des Grieux... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre La Clique

La Clique clicks into place

La Clique, a cool circus and burlesque hybrid, has been a festival hit around the world and it finally debuts in London at the Hippodrome... more |  Add your review 

 
Theatre Monkey

Cartoon adventures for new opera crowd

Monkey: Journey to the West is back for an extended residency at the O2, in a specially constructed tent with its own restaurant, bar and foot-massage parlour... more |  Add your review 

 

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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 

 

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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 

 
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 

 
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 

 
 


 
 
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