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Shannon Hayes as Princess Sarah and Donna Berlin as Aggie - Photo: Ellie Kurttz

REVIEW: The Gift, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2020)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:30 January 2020
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Janice Okoh's play The Gift for Eclipse, a Black Theatre company which fosters and supports black artists in the North of England, is a comedy of manners and a satire on race relations over two centuries. Based on Queen Victoria's black goddaughter Sarah Bonetta Davies who was gifted to the queen after she recognised the 5 year old's intelligence, the play is constructed around three tea parties.

Andrew Scott as Garry Essendine (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

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

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:27 August 2019
Post category:Booking Now News Play Review West End

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…

Sally Field as Kate Keller and Bill Pullman as Joe Keller (Photo Johan Persson)

REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic (2019)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:25 April 2019
Post category:Play Review West End
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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.