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Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Percy Fopdoodle and cast (Photo: Oliver King)

REVIEW: The Government Inspector, Marylebone Theatre (2024)

Post author:Malcolm Beckett
Post published:10 May 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review Uncategorized

Comedy of Russian Greed, Folly and Pride “All the manners and breeding of a Scottish step child” Governor Swashprattle Kiell Smith-Bynoe as Percy Fopdoodle and Martha Howe-Douglas as Mrs…

Dan Starkey as Sir Percy Shorter and Kirsty Besterman as Constance Wicksteed (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Habeas Corpus, Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Set in the genteel town, next to Brighton, of Hove, we meet jaded GP Dr Arthur Wicksteed (the delightful Jasper Britton) aged 53. His wife Muriel (Catherine Russell) longs for the romance she had, before marrying Wicksteed. The beau (and I use the word loosely here) she rejected is Sir Percy Shorter (Dan Starkey), the five feet nothing president of the BMA.