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Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Mirror and the Light, Gielgud Theatre now closing 28/11/21 (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:9 October 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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Concluding her trilogy which started with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, with Ben Miles, has adapted this final part The Mirror and the Light. Ask not where Mike Poulton is, the award winning author/adaptor of so many RSC conversions from page to stage and indeed the adaptor of the first two novels. He was unavailable.

Hiran Abeysekera as Pi with Richard Parker the tiger (Photo: Johan Persson)

NEWS: Life of Pi opens at Wyndhams 15 November 2021

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:2 October 2021
Post category:Play West End
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Life of Pi Wyndhams

LizCarr as Dr Emma Brookner and Ben Daniels as Ned Weeks (Photo: Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Normal Heart, Olivier, National Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:1 October 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The play opens with a silent funereal tribute with the whole cast gathered around a flame in a brazier. As the brazier is raised to the flies, a furious party ensues with disco music. In Scene 1 in July 1981 we see Craig Donner (Elander Moore) terrified at his diagnosis. Craig Donner is barely out of his teens and he is frightened and shaking with emotion. An older man David (Richard Cant) has dark lesions on his face.