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Simon Russell Beale as John Gabriel Borkman (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: John Gabriel Borkmam, Bridge Theatre (2022)

Post author:Francis Beckett
Post published:2 October 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Fraudsters’ final victims are themselves and their families “Like Ibsen’s Borkman, brooding upstairs, Madoff seemed to think that his criminal career was the result, not of greed, or avarice, but…

NEWS: Simon Russell Beale to star in Bach & Sons at The Bridge Theatre

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:22 April 2021
Post category:Off West End Play
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Johann Sebastian Bach, irascible and turbulent, writes music of sensuous delight for his aristocratic patrons, and gives voice to his deep religious faith in music for the church. He’s touchy, he’s fabulously rude, he has high standards (he stabs a bassoonist for playing badly) and he’s constantly in trouble with his employers.