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LizCarr as Dr Emma Brookner and Ben Daniels as Ned Weeks (Photo: Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: The Normal Heart, Olivier, National Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:1 October 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The play opens with a silent funereal tribute with the whole cast gathered around a flame in a brazier. As the brazier is raised to the flies, a furious party ensues with disco music. In Scene 1 in July 1981 we see Craig Donner (Elander Moore) terrified at his diagnosis. Craig Donner is barely out of his teens and he is frightened and shaking with emotion. An older man David (Richard Cant) has dark lesions on his face.

Jonathan Firth as Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall (2021) extends to 26th April 2026

Post author:Brian Clover
Post published:30 September 2021
Post category:Booking Now London but not West End Play Review
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Along the way we are treated to spirited performances. The casual way Emer McDaid's Romaine Vole steals a cigarette from Sir Wilfrid tells us what a wrong'un she is and her accent is a master class in doing the quintessential European femme fatale. Joe McNamara's Leonard Vole is a man on the edge in more ways than one. Jonathan Firth's Sir Wilfrid is a master of words but it is his face that shows his torment when his courtroom victory turns out to be... anything but.

Roger Bart as Doc Brown, Olly Dobson as Marty McFly and the wonderrful DeLorean (Photo: Sean Ebsworth Barnes)

REVIEW: Back to the Future the musical, Adelphi (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:28 September 2021
Post category:Musical Review West End
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The number and variety of Tim Hatley's sets are magnificent and the opening song of the second act "21st Century" is set in Doc Brown's laboratory with white coated assistants with lit up headdress helmets and so many lighting colour shifts from Hugh Vanstone and Tim Lutkin, it is really exciting. The printed circuit board lighting comes right out into the sides of the auditorium, surrounding the proscenium stage.