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REVIEW: The Hunger Games On Stage ⭐⭐⭐
“Ladies and gentlemen, let The Hunger Games begin . . .” Seventeen years after Suzanne Collins published the original Hunger Games book, lighting the spark that would turn into a blazing fire of a dystopian series, The Hunger Games on Stage arrives in London. The stage production, which is playing in a theatre that has…
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REVIEW: Born With Teeth ⭐⭐⭐
“No one gets to just write” Born With Teeth, written by Liz Duffy Adams and directed by Daniel Evans, explores the hypothetical collaboration between Christopher Marlowe (Ncuti Gatwa) and William Shakespeare (Edward Bluemel) as they write Henry VI. But don’t come into the play expecting the facts – as Marlowe himself declares, “It’s theatre, it’s…
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REVIEW: War Horse ⭐⭐⭐⭐
War Horse is on tour across the UK and Ireland once again, telling the story of a young boy, Albert Narracott (Tom Sturgess), and his horse, Joey, which was originally written by Michael Morpurgo and published in 1982. The play is an adaptation by Nick Stafford, originally directed by Tom Morris and currently directed by…
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REVIEW: The Great Gatsby ⭐⭐
“You can’t repeat the past” 100 years after it was first published, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is making a splash in London, now as a musical at the London Coliseum. The work is narrated by Nick Carraway (Corbin Bleu) as he tells the story of his neighbour, the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby…
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INTERVIEW: Charlie Russell on Birdsong
“It’s an incredible opportunity to play such a complicated, contradictory character who makes some extremely bold and brave choices amidst her oppression” Birdsong, Rachel Wagstaff’s stage version of the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same name, tells the story of Stephen Wraysford, a lieutenant in the British Army in World War I, and the relationship…
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