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Travels With My Aunt starstarstar
9 May 2013
The Menier Chocolate Factory has a thing about aunts of late. Following on the heels of last year's revival of Brandon Thomas' farce Charley's Aunt, this Graham Greene adaptation by Giles Havegal is a....
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Don Carlo starstarstarstarstar
9 May 2013
Cynics had a field day when the Royal Opera announced Anja Harteros for the role of Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and the no-show diva with a second-to-none cancellation record (or a next-to-none attendan....
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The Match Box starstarstarstar
9 May 2013
Leanne Best showed up well in Frank McGuinness' over-insulted, if not exactly underrated, version of Damned by Despair at the National last year, and here she is again in an original text by McGu....
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Some Like it Hip Hop starstarstarstar
9 May 2013
I didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the stalls o....
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Passion Play starstarstarstar
8 May 2013
Sacred music and secular love: it's a potent combination in Peter Nichols' raw and rasping 1981 adultery play that comes across in this lacerating revival by David Leveaux as a bitter, twi....
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The Play that Goes Wrong starstarstarstarstar
7 May 2013
There's nothing wrong with The Play that Goes Wrong, which has transferred to Trafalgar Studios following its run at the Old Red Lion. This is effortless slapstick that Keaton and Chaplin would have....
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Charlie and Lola’s Extremely New Play starstarstar
7 May 2013
There have been so many advances in the use of puppetry and music in mainstream theatre recently that it's slightly disappointing to find the dear little Polka Theatre still using cut-out cartoons....
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Die Zauberflöte starstarstarstar
5 May 2013
A very British ‘Flute’ graces the stage for phase two of the Royal Opera’s latest revival. All but a handful of the named principals are home-grown singers, surely a first in r....
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The Tempest (Globe) starstarstar
3 May 2013
Jessie Buckley as Miranda & Roger Allam as Prospero (Photo: Marc Brenner) How reluctant is Prospero to give up his power? He talks of abjuring his magic to embrace his former position but how easily ....
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Merrily We Roll Along starstarstarstarstar
2 May 2013
At the Menier last November we marvelled merely at Maria Friedman’s directing debut with this poignant, heart-felt and wondrously witty musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, a 1981 re-w....
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