Read more about the article REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice*  (*sort of), Criterion Theatre (2021)
Tori Burgess, Isobel McArthur, Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Christine Gordon and Meghan Tyler (Photo: Matt Crockett)

REVIEW: Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Criterion Theatre (2021)

Bonkers Adaptation of Jane Austen "Being a fucking smartarse is… unladylike!"Mrs Bennett Tori Burgess, Isobel McArthur, Hannah Jarrett-Scott, Christine Gordon and Meghan Tyler (Photo: Matt Crockett) This show which first…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Brian and Roger, a highly offensive play, <br> The Mixing Room at the Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)
Simon Lipkin as Brian and Dan Skinner as Roger (Photo: Nobby Clark)

REVIEW: Brian and Roger, a highly offensive play,
The Mixing Room at the Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)

So The Mixing Room venture was packed last night with laughter.  Brian and Roger were created by Harry Peacock and Dan Skinner as podcasts and on stage, Simon Lipkin who has great comic versatility, remember him in Avenue Q and Rock of Ages plays Brian the wheeler dealer, opportunist and Dan Skinner is Roger, Brian's stooge. 

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The Mixing Room at the Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)
Read more about the article REVIEW: The Shark is Broken, Ambassadors Theatre (2021) Extending to 13th February 2022
Ian Shaw as Robert Shaw, Demetri Goritsas as Roy Scheider and Liam Murray Scott as Richard Dreyfuss (Photo: Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Shark is Broken, Ambassadors Theatre (2021) Extending to 13th February 2022

Robert Shaw's son, Ian Shaw has written this richly comic play with Joseph Nixon and in The Shark is Broken  he plays his own father.  The resemblance between father and son is remarkable, especially in profile and in voice where it is uncanny. Robert Shaw in the film plays Quint a shark hunter brought in by the town of Amity Island to restore confidence in their summer beach trade.  Roy Scheider (Demetri Goritsas) played the Chief of Police of Amity and Richard Dreyfuss (Liam Murray Scott) was a marine biologist. 

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