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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

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:23 October 2021
Post category:Comedy Play Review West End
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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.

Harry Enfield as King Charles III (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Windsors Endgame, Prince of Wales Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:14 August 2021
Post category:Comedy Play Review West End
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This comedy has King Charles (Harry Enfield) and Queen Camilla (Tracy-Ann Oberman) the dominatrix in charge. Camilla has a cigarette on the go and issues bitchy remarks. Kate (Kara Tointon) gets excited about the new Boden catalogue, as Camilla castigates Kate for shopping at high street stores. Muggin (Crystal Condie) and Harry (Tom Durant-Pritchard) practise their yoga poses and meditate in California and Harry declares his love for Gladys his rescued battery chicken.

Ben Ashenden as Sid and Alex Owen as Jim (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Comeback, Noël Coward Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:11 July 2021
Post category:Comedy Review West End
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Initially we hear jokes from Alex and Ben, quirky, off the wall and original humour, routines like for instance the difficult mirror act. Ben talks about “life in the forces” only for Alex to prick his bubble by exposing that Ben was working for Parcel Force. They use props in the travelling trunk and introduce the idea that props look smaller onstage than off.