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Dan Starkey as Sir Percy Shorter and Kirsty Besterman as Constance Wicksteed (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Habeas Corpus, Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 December 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Set in the genteel town, next to Brighton, of Hove, we meet jaded GP Dr Arthur Wicksteed (the delightful Jasper Britton) aged 53. His wife Muriel (Catherine Russell) longs for the romance she had, before marrying Wicksteed. The beau (and I use the word loosely here) she rejected is Sir Percy Shorter (Dan Starkey), the five feet nothing president of the BMA.

New cast (Photo: Ellie Kurttz)

REVIEW: Witness for the Prosecution at County Hall continues from 14th September 2021

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:8 April 2021
Post category:London but not West End Off West End Play Review
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Agatha Christie's novel is dramatized in the magnificent setting of a 1920s Edwardian Baroque council chamber with exciting director Lucy Bailey in charge. . . . "I am constantly surprised…