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Jack Holden (Photo: Pamela Raith)

REVIEW: Cruise, Duchess Theatre (2021) now showing at the Apollo (2022)

He is taken in by an American, Fat Sandy who "lived for cottaging and took me under his bingo wing." Later he lives with twins, Jason and Jacob until Jack finds the hedonistic lifestyle they lead of promiscuous sex with innumerable partners, disruptive and intrusive. All the gay bars, pubs and restaurants of old Soho are recalled like a travelogue.

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Lenny Henry as Troy and Tanya Moodie as Rose (Photo: Nobby Clark)

REVIEW: Fences, Duchess Theatre (2013)

Director Paulette Randall has honed these real performances for this excellent production. By the end of the play we know each and every one of August Wilson’s characters. Wilson’s language is powerful and poetic. Libby Watson’s set is the spacious Pittsburgh house bought with brother Gabriel’s compensatory payment for his war wound and surrounded by greenery as well as the eponymous fences.

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Andrew Lincoln as Robert, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Christopher and Andrew Lincoln as Bruce - Photo: Ivan Kyncl

REVIEW: Blue/Orange, Duchess Theatre (2001)

Bill Nighy plays Robert Smith, the sardonic consultant psychiatrist who makes the case that all psychometric testing has a cultural bias, an ethnocentricity which contributes to the misdiagnosis of those from other cultures. Bruce (Andrew Lincoln) is in his first year of practice and feels that Christopher may have schizophrenia.

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