Read more about the article REVIEW: Kerry Jackson, Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre (2022)
Madeline Appiah as Athena and Fay Ripley as Kerry. (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Kerry Jackson, Dorfman Theatre, National Theatre (2022)

Class Roots "He looks like Jeremy Corbyn without the sex appeal!" Kerry  "Let’s not culture-shame. "  Stephen Fay Ripley as Kerry and Madeline Appiah as Athena. (Photo: Marc Brenner) Set in…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Father and the Assassin, Olivier Theatre (2022)
Paul Bazeley as Mohandas Gandhi and Shubham Saraf as Nathuram Godse (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Father and the Assassin, Olivier Theatre (2022)

The Man Who Killed Gandhi "Gandhi is diluting our culture"Nathuram Godse Paul Bazeley as Mohandas Gandhi and Shubham Saraf as Nathuram Godse (Photo: Marc Brenner) I have seen two other…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre (2021)
Clare Perkins as Alvita (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Wife of Willesden, Kiln Theatre (2021)

Yet large chunks of her Control Your Man toolkit are given to Alvita to voice without apparent irony or comment. Marry for money, Treat them mean, Deceive them, Shame them, Make them work hard at sex, (which for her appears to be exclusively heteronormative).  Above all, Take control. She nearly loses control over the Fifth husband, but finally breaks him and takes it back.

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