London and West End
Harold and Maude – Review
| February 26, 2018
I’ve never understood this mania for black. I mean no one sends black flowers, do they? Black flowers are dead flowers, and who would send dead flowers to
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London and West End
The Exorcist – Review
| November 1, 2017
With Stage Review’s editor, Anne Cox, still too traumatised from seeing the film as a teenager more than 40 years ago (yes, it’s true – ed), I was
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London Fringe
Rebel Angel – Review
| September 27, 2017
Whether the pen is mightier than the scalpel, and a poet does more good for the sick, poor and needy than the doctor, is a very different debate
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London Fringe
The Beggar’s Opera – Review
| November 14, 2016
Who doesn’t love a bad boy? Selfish, shallow, womanising, and with manipulative socio-pathic tendencies, John Gay’s early 18th century antihero in his satirical musical, The Beggar’s Opera, was
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London and West End
Groundhog Day – Review
| August 19, 2016
The only problem I had with the hilarious, impeccably choreographed, musical Groundhog Day at London’s Old Vic Theatre – you remember Bill Murray’s 1993 film about a man
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London and West End
American Idiot – Review
| July 14, 2016
In 2004, the dying days of my teenage years, American rock band Green Day released American Idiot, a concept album expressing the disillusionment of young Americans in a
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London Fringe
Though The Mill – Review
| July 11, 2016
I’d die happy if I could press Belinda Wollaston’s voice to brand new vinyl, lie back in an empty room, and play it loudly on a loop for
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London Fringe
Christie In Love – Review
| June 1, 2016
“Why can’t a mass murderer be just a bit diabolical?” screams Jake Curran’s powerfully intense police inspector at a cowering John Christie. “Why can’t a pervert like you
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News
Mustapha Matura, father of black British theatre, gets top university honour
| February 12, 2016
Trinidadian playwright Mustapha Matura – a leading figure in British black theatre for five decades – is set to be honoured by the first university in the world
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London Fringe
Trainspotting Review
| February 8, 2016
“Don’t wear white,” Islington’s King’s Head Theatre warned me when I tweeted about In Your Face Theatre’s adaptation of Trainspotting a few hours before the show. “What can
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Reviews
Stage Review’s 2015 Top Five rundown – London Fringe Pt I
| December 24, 2015
In the past 12 months Stage Review’s head critic, Anne Cox, and guest-reviewer Sarah Cox, have seen nearly 200 productions throughout London and the regions. Here we give
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London Fringe
Dick! – Review
| December 21, 2015
A few years ago I tried to explain ‘pantomime’ to some Americans. Thirty minutes, lots of diagrams, and some very confused faces later, I don’t think we were
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