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Rosalind Ford Centre (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: Gin Craze! at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:23 July 2021
Post category:Musical Outside London Review
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This musical is a celebration of feminism, there is a Lesbian romance and everything is seen from the feminine perspective. There are also social comments: we learn that in Southwark in 1736/7, 9000 children died from gin poisoning.

Ian McKellen as Hamlet (Photo: BKL )

REVIEW: Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021) with Ian McKellen

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 July 2021
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Hamlet the Dane with Ian McKellen "I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul…

Sera Maehara as Liat in South Pacific (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:13 July 2021
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Daniel Evans's production is a triumph! From the opening overture performed as a ballet by the lone figure of Liat (Sera Maehara) to the parade of the US Marines on the circular stage we know we are in an island in the South Seas, invaded by the American military.