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REVIEW: Iphigenia in Splott, Lyric Hammersmith (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:3 October 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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The difference in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott is that Effie gets slaughtered by her own hand. Her life is binge drinking, sex, and stealing from her gran to fund this. She enjoys people looking away when they see her on the street. Splott is a run down part of the Welsh capital Cardiff.

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…

Sophie Melville as Nina (Photo: The Other Richard)

REVIEW: Mum, Soho Theatre (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:26 October 2021
Post category:Off West End Play Review
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Every parent's nightmare! "I didn't realise how tired it was possible to be without dying. " Nina Sophie Melville as Nina (Photo: The Other Richard) It is a distressing fact…