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Rachael Stirling as Lady Susan Climber (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Scandaltown, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 April 2022
Post category:London but not West End Mike Bartlett Play Review
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Scandaltown, sex and satire! "You ignored your own law and partied in the garden." Freddie Peripheral Rachael Stirling as Lady Susan Climber and Henry Everett as Carson (Photo: Marc Brenner) Mike…

REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Regent’s Park (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 June 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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The Capulets' masked ball is a socially distanced, visual masterpiece. The music has a heavy beat, maybe heavy metal, and masked figures dance singly and assertively on the scaffolding tiers, all of them flinging off cloaks to reveal clothes that sparkle and shine and shimmer. The dance is more war dance than ballroom.