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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.

Cast of Indecent (Photo: Johan Persson)

REVIEW: Indecent, Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:16 September 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Astonishing production at the Menier of Indecent "I believe the purpose of theatre is to wound our memory so we can remember."Playwright Paula Vogel writing about her play Indecent Seated…

Cynthia Erivo as Celie and Christopher Colquhoun as Mister at the rear Neil Reidman as Pa (Photo: Nobby Clark)

REVIEW: The Color Purple, Menier Chocolate Factory (2013)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 July 2013
Post category:Black History Musical Off West End Review
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Emotion will bring tears to your eyes at the bravery of Celie, and women like her, in the face of adversity. The context, of course, is that these women whose grandparents were born into slavery are still living an oppressed existence dictated by their gender and their lack of economic power.