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David Harewood as William F Buckley (Photo: Wasi Daniju)

REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022. Theatre not yet announced

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:12 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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In the debate scenes, the actors speak the words that Vidal and Buckley actually spoke. Outside the debates, they confer with their advisers about how to beat the other man, and – vain in a way that only television can make people – they protest to the network that the other man is getting more of the camera.

Georgia Landers as Isabella (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare’s Globe (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:9 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It defies categorisation, it is neither a comedy nor a tragedy nor a history. It is beloved of lawyers because it is about the rule of law but more of that later. Problems are a challenge to director Blanche McIntyre so she has set this play in 1975 in a degenerate society where government has lost control and lawlessness prevails.

Hiram Abeysekera as Pi and Tom Larkin as Tiger Head (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Life of Pi, Wyndham’s (2021) Extends Booking after Olivier Awards to January 2023

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:4 December 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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It was the book that couldn't be filmed, and after it was filmed, it was the film that couldn't be staged and now it is showing at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End with exemplary staging.