Read more about the article REVIEW: The Mirror and the Light, Gielgud Theatre now closing 28/11/21 (2021)
Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Mirror and the Light, Gielgud Theatre now closing 28/11/21 (2021)

Concluding her trilogy which started with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, with Ben Miles, has adapted this final part The Mirror and the Light.   Ask not where Mike Poulton is, the award winning author/adaptor of so many RSC conversions from page to stage and indeed the adaptor of the first two novels.  He was unavailable.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: What If If Only, Royal Court Jerwood Downstairs (2021)
What If If Only by Churchill, , Writer - Caryl Churchill, Director - James Macdonald, Designer - , Lighting Designer - , The Royal Court Theatre, 2021, Credit: Johan Persson

REVIEW: What If If Only, Royal Court Jerwood Downstairs (2021)

Even without Andy getting up to his paradoxical tricks, quarter-hours have not latterly had a good press, vis "un mauvais quart d'heure".  Lasting 17 minutes straight through, What If If Only - the latest piece by Caryl Churchill, is the polar opposite of "un mauvais quart d'heure".  It packs a wealth of suggestion in its brief allotted span.  And the wonder of it is that it does so with an elating lightness of touch.

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