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Victoria Smurfit as Helena (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: Ghosts, Lyric Hammersmith (2025)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 April 2025
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Ibsen as Dark Comedy ”It wouldn’t be the first time you have thrown yourself at me!” Andersen Victoria Smurfit as Helena (Photo: Helen Murray) Mmm. . . I’ve just read…

REVIEW: Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:3 October 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The difference in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott is that Effie gets slaughtered by her own hand. Her life is binge drinking, sex, and stealing from her gran to fund this. She enjoys people looking away when they see her on the street. Splott is a run down part of the Welsh capital Cardiff.