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Tony Bell as Harry, Harry Rundle as Barney and Imogen Stubbs as Leni Riefenstahl. (Photo: Matt Hunter)

REVIEW: A Thing of Beauty, Tabard Theatre (2026)

Do the politics of artists detract from their art? Harry “There’s a rumour you slept with Jesse Owens?”Leni Riefenstahl. “I vish!”  Tony Bell as Harry, Harry Rundle as Barney and…

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Richard Lintern as Russ and Michael Fox as Jim (Photo: Mark Douet)

REVIEW: Clybourne Park, The Park Theatre (2022)

Community change, racism and gentrification "Bev, I’m not here to solve society’s problems. I’m simply telling you what will happen, and it will happen as follows: First one family will…

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Ben Whishaw as Hamlet and Imogen Stubbs as Gertrude (Photo: Alistair Muir)

REVIEW: Hamlet, Old Vic (2004)

This is Sir Trevor Nunn's first Hamlet in thirty years and the publicity machine leapt into action to emphasis the youth of his cast, actors who are, or have just been students, playing Hamlet and his contemporaries, also students. It is of course a tremendous risk to take with Shakespeare's greatest tragedy to entrust the huge and demanding role of the Prince of Denmark to Ben Whishaw who is only 23 and barely out of RADA.

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