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Safiyya Ingar as Asha and Anoushka Chadha as Bettina (Photo: Alex Brenneer)

REVIEW: Two Billion Beats, Orange Tree Theatre (2022) RETURNING January 2023

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:15 February 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Two British Asian sisters, both are at secondary school, one nearing the end and looking at university entrance to SOAS and the other, younger and hoping to buy a pet hamster. The elder girl Asha (Safiyya Ingar) is studying hard and getting involved in political history; the younger Bettina (Anoushka Chadha) is being bullied on the bus home from school. The playwright of Two Billion Beats, Sonali Bhattacharyya is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and is under contract currently to the Almeida Theatre and The Kiln.

Jamie McAvoy as Cyrano de Bergerac and Cast (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Cyrano de Bergerac, Harold Pinter Theatre (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:7 February 2022
Post category:Play Review West End
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The rapier wit of Cyrano de Bergerac! "Only a hero, someone larger than life, can take us out of ordinary life and return us to it refreshed and invigorated.”Edmond Rostand…

Cast of Hamlet Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Hamlet, Sam Wanamaker (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:6 February 2022
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If you have ever seen Shit Faced Shakespeare where an unknown member of the cast will drink real alcohol while the rest remain sober, you would see a contemporary version of Shakespeare as a comedy designed to make you laugh. In this version of Hamlet at the beautifully recreated Shakespearean theatre, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the idea is to show Hamlet as a psychopathic, woman hating, selfish aristocrat who tells Fortinbras to fuck off and can handle a can of spray paint.