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REVIEW: Kiss Me Kate, Barbican (2024)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:19 June 2024
Post category:London but not West End Musical Review

Front of house there’s a production of The Taming of the Shrew to keep going but the backstage antics are interfering with that too. What results is a near-farcical, slapstick comedy of misunderstanding, misadventure and misgivings.

KING LEAR by Shakespeare, , Director - Kenneth Branagh, Set and Costume Design - Jon Bausor, Projection - Nina Dunn, Lighting Design - Paul Keogan, Choreography - Aletta Collins, Fight Director - Bret Yount, The Kenneth Branagh Company, 2023, Credit: Johan Persson/

REVIEW: King Lear, Wyndham’s (2023)

Post author:Sonny Waheed
Post published:2 November 2023
Post category:Play Review West End
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King Lear: Making the complicated, confounding “’Tis the times plague, when madmen lead the blind!" Gloucester Act 4, Scene 1 Kenneth Branagh as King Lear. (Photo: Johan Persson) Does London…