Read more about the article REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)
Adrian Edmondson as Grandma and Ethan Kai as Youssef (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)

Adrian Edmondson's chilling and slyly humorous, camp (no, not the concentration camp but a camp manner) commandant is called Grandma because he sits in a corner knitting in the evenings.  His real name is unknown.  Edmondson's performance, full of easy patter, is sinister and makes you shudder as you laugh, a not entirely comfortable feeling. 

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Leopoldstadt, Wyndhams Theatre returns 7th August for 12 weeks
"Seder" The cast of Leopoldstadt - Photo: by Marc Brenner

REVIEW: Leopoldstadt, Wyndhams Theatre returns 7th August for 12 weeks

Tom Stoppard's plays are brilliant, peopled full of characters that stay with you. Leopoldstadt may be his last play as he has suggested, but I think it is his most personal.

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