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Clare Perkins as an Inmate and Jenny Jules as Undine (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine, Tricycle Theatre (2006)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 February 2006
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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American playwright Lynn Nottage's most recent play Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine comes to London's Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn. It is a charming comedy which takes a satirical look at a New York business woman's fall from an affluent and privileged life style to one where she is forced to re-examine her materialistic values.

Adrian Lester as Hamlet - Photo: Ivan Lenkic

REVIEW: The Tragedy of Hamlet with Adrian Lester, Young Vic (2001)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:25 August 2001
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Peter Brook directs Adrian Lester in an essential Hamlet Forget Shakespeare. Forget that there ever was such a man. Forget that these plays had an author. . . So just…

Lennie James as Walter Lee Younger, Cecilia Noble as Ruth Lee Younger and Kananu Kirimi as Beneath Younger - Photo: Tristram Kenton

REVIEW: A Raisin in the Sun, Young Vic (2001)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:6 June 2001
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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David Lan's atmospheric production is bounded by one room in the apartment block in Chicago. The beginning of the play sees the family lining up to use the communal bathroom and we get a sense of the tension created by cramped quarters and the enforced intimacy with the neighbours.