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Shane Zaza as Gus and Alec Newman as Ben (Photo Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 December 2020
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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The Dumb Waiter is a quintessential early Pinter play from 1960, one that feels almost Beckettian if not absurdist. It is set in a room, a situation with bags of sinister mystery with just two players. I always think of what the French writer Jean Anouilh said about Waiting for Godot on seeing Beckett's play for the first time in Paris in 1953. "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."

Full team of Showstopper! (Photo: Hugo Glendinning)

REVIEW: Showstopper! the Musical

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:8 December 2020
Post category:Musical Review West End
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The permutations are endless and the audience are asked to text or twitter in a scenario in which to set the musical and the name of a favourite musical to select a style.

Potted Panto Garrick Theatre CREDIT Geraint Lewis

REVIEW: Potted Panto, The Garrick (2020)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:7 December 2020
Post category:Pantomime Review West End
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Long, lanky Dan (Daniel Clarkson) and controlling Jefferson (Jeff Turner) explain the concept and argue about the details. We start with Jack and the Beanstalk with Dan's interpretation of a title character being an ornate, lengthy green tube of a sprouting beanstalk. As an audience member you may well be several steps ahead of the actors on the punchline but hey, it feels good to be proved right!

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