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Continue reading →: Iphigenia-Arcola Theatre.Euripides wrote two plays about Iphigenia, well, two that have survived. The first one, Iphigenia at Aulis, is the main source of Serdar Bilis’ adaptation. It concerns King Agamemnon and his grisly solution to the becalming of the ships he wants to go to Troy. His priests say he has…
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Continue reading →: Dear Jack, Dear Louise-Arcola Theatre.Ken Ludwig has written a jewel-like comedy romance that is simple, straightforward, and totally engaging. The burgeoning romance between a young Army doctor in Oregon and a wannabe actress in Manhattan is told exclusively through letters that the couple write, obsessively, committedly, through a fraught period of history: the Second…
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Continue reading →: Invisible Me-Southwark Playhouse Little.Apparently, when you reach a certain age, 60 years old, you start to become invisible and irrelevant. Many are still working but are undervalued and looked through. Writer Bren Gosling captures the despair and loneliness many audience members of a certain age will recognise. Three neighbours who have never spoken…
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Continue reading →: I Was a Teenage She Devil-The Other Palace Studio.If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if an ’80s high‑school movie, a queer horror spoof and a rock musical all collided at once, I Was a Teenage She Devil at The Other Palace Studio has your answer — and it’s every bit as chaotic, camp and crazy as that…
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Continue reading →: TWO-Park Theatre.TWO By Jim Cartwright is the latest play running in the Park Theatre, Park 90 space. TWO has transferred after having a sell-out run at Greenwich Theatre. Landlord and Landlady played by Kellie Shirley and Peter Caulfield run a “locals” local pub during the 1980s. The theme track to the play…
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Continue reading →: Interstellar-Royal Albert Hall.There’s nothing like watching a brilliant film on the big screen. However, the screen at the Royal Albert Hall is outstanding and bought their latest film event featuring Interstellar starring Matthew McConaughey and John Lithgow. Interstellar is the 2014 film about an ex-pilot who returned to work on the family farm.…
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Continue reading →: Much Ado About Nothing – Arches Theatre Battersea.
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy centred on confusion, meddling, romance, and deception. Soldiers Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro visit Leonato in Messina, where Claudio immediately develops feelings for Leonato’s daughter, Hero. However, Don John, the malicious half-brother of Don Pedro, deceives Claudio into thinking Hero has been unfaithful.…
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Continue reading →: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold-New Victoria Theatre Woking.David Eldridge and director Jeremy Herrin bring John le Carre’s 1963 masterpiece The Spy Who Came In From The Cold to the stage, which began its six month tour in March 2026. Ralph Little takes on the role of Alec Leamas in the currently touring production of The Spy Who Came…
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Continue reading →: Waitress-New Wimbledon Theatre.The UK tour of Waitress opened at the New Wimbledon Theatre last night, and what an uplifting, heartfelt evening it proved to be. From the moment the curtains rose on Joe’s Pie Shop — the audience was instantly transported into Jenna’s world of flour‑dusted hope and heartbreak. Carrie Hope Fletcher…
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Continue reading →: In The Print-Kings Head Theatre.
In The Print showing at the Kings Head Theatre, Islington is a tense British political drama examining The Battle of Wapping in 1985 when Rupert Murdoch took on the might of the print unions and won.Back then, many print unions operated under long-established practices that had built up over decades.…
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