Read more about the article REVIEW: The Mirror and the Light, Gielgud Theatre now closing 28/11/21 (2021)
Ben Miles as Thomas Cromwell (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Mirror and the Light, Gielgud Theatre now closing 28/11/21 (2021)

Concluding her trilogy which started with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, with Ben Miles, has adapted this final part The Mirror and the Light.   Ask not where Mike Poulton is, the award winning author/adaptor of so many RSC conversions from page to stage and indeed the adaptor of the first two novels.  He was unavailable.

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Read more about the article REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic (2019)
Sally Field as Kate Keller and Bill Pullman as Joe Keller (Photo Johan Persson)

REVIEW: All My Sons, Old Vic (2019)

I think this is the fourth time I have seen Arthur Miller's play All My Sons and although I have seen other very good productions, this is the best for the magnificent acting of Bill Pullman as the engineering firm chief, Joe Keller, Sally Field as his wife Kate and Colin Morgan as their son Chris. It is a difficult play to write about without the big reveal which would spoil the play for anyone seeing it for the first time.

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