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Tom Brooke as Alexander Litvinenko (centre flanked by his assassins) (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: A Very Expensive Poison, Old Vic (2019)
Winner Critics’ Circle Best New Play 2019 from our archives

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:12 November 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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This action by Russian agents (the KGB or their successors, the FSB) is the suspected second prominent murder case on British soil, the first known about being the murder of Bulgarian dissident, Georgi Markov in 1978 with a ricin poisoned pellet shot from an umbrella. The latest in 2018 took place in the sleepy West Country cathedral city of Salisbury when Novichoc a nerve agent was smeared on the door handle of Sergei Skripal's house putting Mr Skripal, his daughter Yulia and a local policeman into hospital and killing another English woman whose partner found the perfume bottle containing the nerve agent.

REVIEW: Enron, Royal Court (2009)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:27 September 2009
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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Enron is about the creative accounting adopted by the Texan energy giant to disguise their losses and debts that gives creativity a bad name. The bubble burst and down tumbled two giants, Enron and accountants Arthur Andersen, as well as many Enron employees who lost not only their jobs but all their capital after using it to purchase the company's shares. So how do we turn the tedium of financial balance sheets and stock market registers into living theatre? With innovative skill, that's how!