Read more about the article REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)
Adrian Edmondson as Grandma and Ethan Kai as Youssef (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)

Adrian Edmondson's chilling and slyly humorous, camp (no, not the concentration camp but a camp manner) commandant is called Grandma because he sits in a corner knitting in the evenings.  His real name is unknown.  Edmondson's performance, full of easy patter, is sinister and makes you shudder as you laugh, a not entirely comfortable feeling. 

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Equus, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2019)
Ethan Kai as Alan Strang - Photo: The Other Richard

REVIEW: Equus, Theatre Royal Stratford East (2019)

English Touring Theatre has paired up with The Theatre Royal at Stratford East to bring us a thrilling production of Equus which is as brilliantly acted as it is choreographed. I saw the 1973 production of Equus at the National Theatre and remembered the horses played by people with horse heads as being ground breaking in terms of movement.

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