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Ciaran O'Brien as Caliban and Ferdy Roberts as Prospero (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Globe (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:2 August 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Cringeworthy Shakespeare "Then all afire with me: the king’s son, Ferdinand,With hair up-staring, then like reeds, not hair,Was the first man that leaped; cried,‘Hell is empty And all the devils…

Company in Much Ado (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s Globe (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:5 May 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Italian style and comedy in Much Ado "I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. " Beatrice Lucy Phelps as Beatrice…

Ciaran O'Brien as Sebastian and Michelle Terry as Viola (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Globe (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:11 August 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The star of this play for me was Nadine Higgin's Sir Toby Belch. She has magnificent stage presence. I do wonder whether we are meant to like Sir Toby as much as we did? But I loved every moment she was onstage and her interaction with Maria (NadiKemp-Sayfi) was brilliant.