Plays About Jews Archives

Adrian Edmondson as Grandma and Ethan Kai as Youssef (Photo: Marc Brenner)

REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, Almeida Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:31 August 2021
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Adrian Edmondson's chilling and slyly humorous, camp (no, not the concentration camp but a camp manner) commandant is called Grandma because he sits in a corner knitting in the evenings. His real name is unknown. Edmondson's performance, full of easy patter, is sinister and makes you shudder as you laugh, a not entirely comfortable feeling.

"Seder" The cast of Leopoldstadt - Photo: by Marc Brenner

REVIEW: Leopoldstadt, Wyndhams Theatre returns 7th August for 12 weeks

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:22 April 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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Tom Stoppard's plays are brilliant, peopled full of characters that stay with you. Leopoldstadt may be his last play as he has suggested, but I think it is his most personal.