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Hannah Khalique-Brown as Mary Lennox and Theo Angel as Colin (Photo: Alex Brenner)

REVIEW: The Secret Garden, Open Air (2024)

Post author:Brian Clover
Post published:29 June 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

1911 Secret Garden Adapted for 2024 “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”Frances Hodgson Burnett 2. Hannah Khalique-Brown as Mary Lennox)…

Jack Klaff as Kafka (Photo: Marilyn Kingwill)

REVIEW: Kafka, Finborough (2024)

Post author:Brian Clover
Post published:18 June 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Klaff's own script weaves his sources together with great skill into a patchwork quilt of allusions, themes, attitudes, and emotions to powerful effect. But Klaff also wears his learning lightly. There are gags-a-plenty along the way.

Isabelle Huppert as Mary. (Photo: Lucie Jansch)

REVIEW: Mary Said What She Said, Barbican (2024)

Post author:Brian Clover
Post published:12 May 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Isabelle Huppert stars in Robert Wilson's take on Mary Queen of Scots “After dinner I was told that I am to be executed at eight o'clock in the morning...”…