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David Harewood as William F Buckley (Photo: Wasi Daniju)

REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022. Theatre not yet announced

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:12 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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In the debate scenes, the actors speak the words that Vidal and Buckley actually spoke. Outside the debates, they confer with their advisers about how to beat the other man, and – vain in a way that only television can make people – they protest to the network that the other man is getting more of the camera.

Red Riding Hood Rehearsals Theatre Royal Stratford East©The Other Richard

REVIEW: Red Riding Hood, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Pantomime Review
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Red Riding Hood in Stratford East is charming! "Grannies and Mums don't get on.”Red Riding Hood Red Riding Hood Rehearsals Theatre Royal Stratford East ©The Other Richard There are around…

Georgia Landers as Isabella (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Measure for Measure, Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare’s Globe (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:9 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It defies categorisation, it is neither a comedy nor a tragedy nor a history. It is beloved of lawyers because it is about the rule of law but more of that later. Problems are a challenge to director Blanche McIntyre so she has set this play in 1975 in a degenerate society where government has lost control and lawlessness prevails.