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Niamh Cusack (Photo: The Other Richard)

REVIEW: The Seven Pomegranate Seeds
Rose Theatre, Kingston (2021)

Colin Teevan's  The Seven Pomegranate Seeds  was first produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 2006.  After a radio production at the beginning  of lockdown in January 2020, Colin Teevan has amended his seven monologues, each based on a Greek woman in a play mostly by Euripides. 

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Rose Theatre, Kingston (2021)
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Francesca annis as Madame Ranyevskaya and Ian McKellen as Firs (Photo: Jack Merriman)

REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021)

Commotion greets the arrival of the carriages carrying Madame Ranyevskaya (Francesca Annis) and her family.  There are leather suitcases, trunks and hat boxes.  The aged Russian servant Firs (Ian McKellen, playing a man five years older than his actual age) is seen with hairy dundrearies and a bald head but in formal wear. 

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