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

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

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. 

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021)   CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022
Carrie Hope Fletcher as Cinderella and Victoria Hamilton-Barritt as the Stepmother (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

REVIEW: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre (2021) CLOSING 12th JUNE 2022

Carrie Hope Fletcher is a real asset to this show, she sings like a dream and has a super personality with lashings of humour which the other women all seem to lack. I saw Ivano Turco's understudy Michael Hamway as Sebastian who is operatically trained and his singing is gorgeous but his dance moves are decidedly odd.

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Rachel Weisz as Evelyn and Paul Rudd as Adam (Photo: Alastair Muir)

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Neil LaBute's brilliant take on body shaming from 2001 "Art is anything I can't do"Neil LaBute Rachel Weisz as Evelyn and Paul Rudd as Adaml (Photo: Alastair Muir) Note: With…

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