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Soap
12 Mar 2010
Bathtime will never be the same after attending Soap, the often silly and often downright sexy aerial acrobatic show at the Riverside Studios, which proves there is more than one use for the humble tub. Read more
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London Assurance
11 Mar 2010
Everyone is having a lot of fun in the National’s Olivier theatre at the moment. Silly walks, even sillier disguises, a remote control rat and a farcical plotline are providing much merriment for audiences and actors alike, and it is all courtesy of Dion Boucicault’s London Assurance. Read more
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Love Never Dies
10 Mar 2010
After years of rumours and rewrites, and months of anticipation, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new tale about the Phantom has finally opened in the West End. Read more
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Random
09 Mar 2010
Theatres don’t usually look like furniture shops. But arriving at the venue for the Royal Court’s new venture, that is exactly what it looks like. In fact, the venue is a disused lot at the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, and the venture is Theatre Local. Read more
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Sweet Nothings
05 Mar 2010
Little known in Britain, but legendary in his native Switzerland, director Luc Bondy brings Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic, tragic romance to the cold, grey streets of Waterloo, filling the Young Vic with sexual tension and unfilled desire. Read more
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Private Lives
04 Mar 2010
Amanda and Elyot are made for each other. It is obvious from the start of Noël Coward’s comedy about relationships that the divorced pair should never have married their tiresome new spouses. Read more
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Ghost Stories
02 Mar 2010
It was a dark, moonlit night. The cold air chilled my very bones. A light breeze stalked me, breathing insistently on the back of my neck. And that was just before the press night of Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith. Read more
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The Dead School
25 Feb 2010
A decrepit schoolroom currently fills the stage of the Tricycle theatre. The classroom has seen better days. The Dead School’s cast of five tells the story of those times gone by. Read more
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Ghosts
24 Feb 2010
In this new production of Ibsen’s Ghosts, Iain Glen directs himself as Pastor Manders, a man who thinks duty should always be put before happiness. But, as current news stories attest, that advice is hard to follow when your duty is to be married to a philandering husband. Read more
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Disconnect
23 Feb 2010
John Napier’s stark, windowless set is the sterile working environment of three call centre workers in India who spend their nights collecting debts from American credit card holders. Read more
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