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Claire Price as Alex (Photo: Robert Day)

REVIEW: Raya, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 June 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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There are too few plays which mention the menopause. Have I lost my male readers at this point? Please stay. In Deborah Bruce's new play Raya, the central figure Alex (Claire Price) is 49 and has just attended a reunion at her university organised on Facebook. Thirty years on from their October start. She has gone specifically to meet Jason (Bo Poraj) with whom she had an affair when they were undergraduates.

REVIEW: A Splinter of Ice, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford and tour (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 June 2021
Post category:Outside London Play Review
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Philby and Greene were colleagues, although like Le Carré, Greene's M16 career was halted as his name was given to the Soviets by Philby. However as Brown's play tells, Greene had a certain amount of sympathy for Philby's devotion to Communism.

Andrew Scott as Langley Collyer and David Dawson as Homer Collyer (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Dazzle, Found 111 (2015) from our archive and absolutely brilliant

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:15 June 2021
Post category:Archive Off West End Play Review
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Mesmerising. Andrew Scott is immediately gripping as Langley Collyer, a concert pianist with meticulous and exacting standards for the playing of music. In white tie and tails but with the bow tie undone, he rages about a note and the difference between identical and the same, which has the non musicians in the audience puzzled. His language is refined and esoteric, his personality extreme but fascinating. Our reaction is to be amused.