Read more about the article REVIEW: Last Easter, Orange Tree Theatre (2021)
LAST EASTER by Bryony Lavery ; Director Tinuke Craig ; Designer Hannah Wolfe ; Design Associate Natalie Johnson ; Lighting Designer Elliot Griggs ; Sound Designer ; Composer Beth Duke ; Costume Supervisor Megan Rarity ; Orange Tree Theatre ; London, UK ; 3rd July 2021 ; Credit & Copyright: Helen Murray

REVIEW: Last Easter, Orange Tree Theatre (2021)

June (Naana Agyei-Ampadu) is dying of breast cancer which has developed secondary cancers.June is probably the least obviously dramatic of the four. She is a lighting designer and the playwright’s directions in the text is that the lighting has to be “wonderful beyond belief”. As she faces death we can see what is important to her as she quietly and sadly enjoys what little time she may have left.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Mr and Mrs Nobody, Jermyn Street Theatre (2021)
Miranda Foster as Carrie Pooter and Edward Baker-Duly as Charles Pooter (Photo: Steve Gregson)

REVIEW: Mr and Mrs Nobody, Jermyn Street Theatre (2021)

The novel Diary of a Nobody was published in 1892. It was the work of humourist actors and writers, George Grossmith and his younger brother Weedon (whatever inspired the Grossmith parents to call him that?). It was hugely satirical in its day with its exposée of the pretentious middle classes attempt to impress their neighbours with all kinds of dishonesty and talking themselves up.

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Hari Dhillon as Amir, Sara Powell as Jory, Nigel Whitmey as Isaac and Kirsty Bushell as Emily (Photo: Simon Kane)

REVIEW: Disgraced, Bush Theatre from our archives (2013)

As the play progresses there is an over-consumption of alcohol and the cracks start to open up. Amir will feel betrayed by his wife, by his associate Jory and by their friend Isaac and the effect is violent, shocking and destructive.

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