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Claire Price as Alex (Photo: Robert Day)

REVIEW: Raya, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 June 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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There are too few plays which mention the menopause. Have I lost my male readers at this point? Please stay. In Deborah Bruce's new play Raya, the central figure Alex (Claire Price) is 49 and has just attended a reunion at her university organised on Facebook. Thirty years on from their October start. She has gone specifically to meet Jason (Bo Poraj) with whom she had an affair when they were undergraduates.

Justin Butcher as Scaramouche (Photo: Josh Pulman)

REVIEW: Scaramouche Jones or the Seven White Masks, Wilton’s Music Hall (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:18 June 2021
Post category:Off West End Play
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We start not with the economical "I am born" but towards his death at aged 100 years old on December 31st 1999, where he describes his visceral birth in Port O' Spain Trinidad a century earlier. This "little oyster" is a pale skinned baby born to a "swarthy" Gypsy whore in a place that is "a fishmonger's by day and knocking shop by night". Crinkle your noses now!

REVIEW: A Splinter of Ice, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford and tour (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 June 2021
Post category:Outside London Play Review
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Philby and Greene were colleagues, although like Le Carré, Greene's M16 career was halted as his name was given to the Soviets by Philby. However as Brown's play tells, Greene had a certain amount of sympathy for Philby's devotion to Communism.