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Juliet Stevenson as Ruth, Tom Wlaschiha as Thomas and Artie Wilkinson-Hunt as Young Thomas (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: The Land of the Living, Dorfman National Theatre (2025)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:20 September 2025
Post category:London but not West End Play Review

Do We Ever Learn from History? "History always has just one more card up its sleeve."Ruth Juliet Stevenson as Ruth, Tom Wlaschiha as Thomas and Artie Wilkinson-Hunt as Young Thomas…

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…