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Jermyn Street Theatre

REVIEW: Two Horsemen, Jermyn Street Theatre (2021)

The first long speech is the schoolboys' perpetual source of humour: carboard ripping and toxic smelling flatulence. Banza, attributing this to his bean laden diet, recalls how his teacher led an investigation into the culprit. With small primary school boys and a good sense of the ridiculous, she held them aloft to nasally detect the waft of lingering aroma.

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David Calder as Caesar - Photo: Manuel Harlan

REVIEW: Julius Caesar, Bridge Theatre (2018) and screening on NT at home

For the two hours without interval, the groundlings will stand as the crowd being swayed by the political speeches of Brutus (Ben Whishaw) and Mark Antony (David Morrissey) or as the inhabitants of the battle scenes at Philippi.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Leopoldstadt, Wyndhams Theatre returns 7th August for 12 weeks
"Seder" The cast of Leopoldstadt - Photo: by Marc Brenner

REVIEW: Leopoldstadt, Wyndhams Theatre returns 7th August for 12 weeks

Tom Stoppard's plays are brilliant, peopled full of characters that stay with you. Leopoldstadt may be his last play as he has suggested, but I think it is his most personal.

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