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Andrew Scott as Garry Essendine (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Present Laughter, The Old Vic (2019) Now on National Theatre at Home

Noel Coward's play comes out of its 1930s closet "I'm always acting!"Garry Essendine I was fortunate enough to start serious theatre going when Noël Coward's plays were having a revival…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic (2019)
Sally Field as Kate Keller and Bill Pullman as Joe Keller (Photo Johan Persson)

REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic (2019)

I think this is the fourth time I have seen Arthur Miller's play All My Sons and although I have seen other very good productions, this is the best for the magnificent acting of Bill Pullman as the engineering firm chief, Joe Keller, Sally Field as his wife Kate and Colin Morgan as their son Chris. It is a difficult play to write about without the big reveal which would spoil the play for anyone seeing it for the first time.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Equus, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2019)
Ethan Kai as Alan Strang - Photo: The Other Richard

REVIEW: Equus, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2019)

English Touring Theatre has paired up with The Theatre Royal at Stratford East to bring us a thrilling production of Equus which is as brilliantly acted as it is choreographed. I saw the 1973 production of Equus at the National Theatre and remembered the horses played by people with horse heads as being ground breaking in terms of movement.

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