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Adrian Edmondson as Grandma and Ethan Kai as Youssef (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)

Adrian Edmondson's chilling and slyly humorous, camp (no, not the concentration camp but a camp manner) commandant is called Grandma because he sits in a corner knitting in the evenings.  His real name is unknown.  Edmondson's performance, full of easy patter, is sinister and makes you shudder as you laugh, a not entirely comfortable feeling. 

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Rachel Weisz as Evelyn and Paul Rudd as Adam (Photo: Alastair Muir)

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Neil LaBute's brilliant take on body shaming from 2001 "Art is anything I can't do"Neil LaBute Rachel Weisz as Evelyn and Paul Rudd as Adaml (Photo: Alastair Muir) Note: With…

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Gloria Obianyo and the cast of Paradise (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Paradise, Olivier National Theatre (2021)

At the death of Heracles, his friend Philoctetes was the only one to come forward to light the funeral pyre.  In return Philoctetes was given Heracles magical bow and arrows.  In the middle of the Trojan wars which went on for decades, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake and his leg turned rancid.   The smell was so dreadful and noxious to the other sailors and soldiers that Odysseus abandoned Philoctetes on the island of Lemnos and set sail without him.  Ten years later Odysseus returns and this is where Kae Tempest's play begins. 

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