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Dickie Beau as Oscar Wilde and Simon Russell Beale as AE Housman (Photo: Helen Murray)

REVIEW: The Invention of Love, Hampstead (2024)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:18 December 2024
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Immersion in the life of a Classicist and Poet “Sophocles, too; he wrote The Loves of Achilles: more spooniness than you’ll find in a cutlery drawer, I shouldn’t wonder.”AE Housman…

Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: The Merchant of Venice, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 March 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Heavy handed re-imagining of Shakespeare's Merchant "If you prick us do we not bleed?"Shylock Adrian Schiller as Shylock (Photo Tristram Kenton) The Merchant of Venice is viewed as Shakespeare's difficult…