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Matt Sutton as Dennis, Sam Newton as Ed, Jennifer Daley as Angie and Jessica Jolleys as Lauren (Photo: Robert Day)

REVIEW: Big Big Sky At Hampstead Downstairs (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:13 August 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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The performances are lovely and Bob Bailey's café set is perfect with its table and chairs and glass covers for the ideal vegan brownie. Who could fail to warm to these characters? The boy from the Midlands, thrilled by the coastline and the ornithology.

Claire Price as Alex (Photo: Robert Day)

REVIEW: Raya, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 June 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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There are too few plays which mention the menopause. Have I lost my male readers at this point? Please stay. In Deborah Bruce's new play Raya, the central figure Alex (Claire Price) is 49 and has just attended a reunion at her university organised on Facebook. Thirty years on from their October start. She has gone specifically to meet Jason (Bo Poraj) with whom she had an affair when they were undergraduates.