Read more about the article REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie, Duke of York’s  (2022)
Victor Alli as Jim O'Connor, Amy Adama as Amanda Wingfield and Tom Glynn-Carney (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie, Duke of York’s (2022)

A disappointing Glass Menagerie "Mother, when you’re disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus’ mother in the museum.” Laura Wingfield Amy Adams as…

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022.  Theatre not yet announced
David Harewood as William F Buckley (Photo: Wasi Daniju)

REVIEW: Best of Enemies, Young Vic (2021) to transfer to the West End in November 2022. Theatre not yet announced

In the debate scenes, the actors speak the words that Vidal and Buckley actually spoke. Outside the debates, they confer with their advisers about how to beat the other man, and – vain in a way that only television can make people – they protest to the network that the other man is getting more of the camera.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies <br>Aldwych Theatre (2014)
Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell (Photo: Keith Pattison)

REVIEW: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
Aldwych Theatre (2014)

In Bring Up the Bodies we see that Henry's marriage to Anne is already in difficulties as she fails to deliver alive the longed for son. Henry, without the male heir, starts to speculate that he has been influenced by witchcraft and in this world of shifting power, Thomas Cromwell remarkably detaches himself from Anne Boleyn and survives. As he says, "Our requirements have changed and the facts must change with them." Anne loses her head after, along with a number of men, she is accused of adultery and therefore treason, although historians are largely convinced that Anne was innocent of these charges.

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Aldwych Theatre (2014)