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David Harewood as William F Buckley (Photo: Wasi Daniju)

REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022. Theatre not yet announced

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:12 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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In the debate scenes, the actors speak the words that Vidal and Buckley actually spoke. Outside the debates, they confer with their advisers about how to beat the other man, and – vain in a way that only television can make people – they protest to the network that the other man is getting more of the camera.

Ron Cook as Richard Millett QC (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Grenfell: Value Engineering – Scenes from the Inquiry, Tabernacle Theatre W11 (2021)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:20 October 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Theatre is not supposed to work this way. Yet this is one of the most compelling pieces of theatre you will ever see.

Luke Thallon as Him and Patsy Ferran as Her (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Camp Siegfried, Old Vic (2021)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:22 September 2021
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There are just two characters. He is 17, all noisy, hearty masculinity. She is 16, all gawky, precious self-loathing: “I’m just a caterpillar. One day I’ll be a butterfly, if I don’t get stamped on first.” They meet, they fall in love, they hear the Fuehrer’s call to populate the world with Aryan babies, and they set to work to do his bidding.