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Alice Fearn as Captain Beverley Centre and company (Photo: Craig Sugden)

REVIEW: Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre (2021) closed Tour from March 2024 to January 2025

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 July 2021
Post category:Musical Review West End

The musical starts with foot tapping and stamping, exciting Gaelic rhythms with some Irish jigs as Claude introduces some of the Gander residents, teachers Beulah (Jenna Boyd) and Annette (Alice Fearn) and the policeman Oz (Harry Morrison). It is as if we are making new friends as we learn about the residents of Gander and their contribution and also the passengers of Captain Beverley Bass (Alice Fearn)’s plane, an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas, Texas.

Esh Alladi (Photo by Helen Maybanks)

REVIEW: Out West, Lyric Hammersmith (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 June 2021
Post category:Black History Off West End Play Review
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Out West is a collection of three one actor plays by three renowned playwrights, linked by each play illustrating differing aspects of racism and alluding to the area where the Lyric Theatre is today. One is about a mixed race marriage, one about a black woman's fight for self esteem and one about a law student from overseas arriving in Britain in the reign of Queen Victoria.

REVIEW: Romeo and Juliet, Open Air Regent’s Park (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:24 June 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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The Capulets' masked ball is a socially distanced, visual masterpiece. The music has a heavy beat, maybe heavy metal, and masked figures dance singly and assertively on the scaffolding tiers, all of them flinging off cloaks to reveal clothes that sparkle and shine and shimmer. The dance is more war dance than ballroom.