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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.

Rachel Stirling as Sandra, Nicholas Burns as Kenneth and Isabella Laughland as Rose - Photo: Helen Maybanks

REVIEW: Love, Love, Love – Lyric Hammersmith (2020)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:12 March 2020
Post category:Mike Bartlett Off West End Play Review
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Mike Bartlett's play about inter-generational conflict gets a welcome revival "You're completely off the leash at the moment. I don't know what you're up to" Ken to Sandra in 'Act…

Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet and Mimi Ndiweni as Ophelia - Photo: Manuel Harlan

REVIEW: Hamlet, Hackney Empire (2018)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:10 March 2018
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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The RSC has found a new star in Paapa Essiedu's Prince of Denmark "More matter and less art" Gertrude Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet and Mimi Ndiweni as Ophelia - Photo:…