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Review of ‘Relics’: “Family-matters play is rather urkel”
Money brings out the worst in people. And sometimes, the worst in art, too. That is, if anyone is able to find it in Ben Ockrent’s latest attempt at dark comedy, whose thought-provoking premise fails to translate into compelling storytelling, and whose soap-operatic style confuses grip and variety with campiness and an overloaded plot. Four…
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Review of ‘Woman In Mind’: “Sheridan Smith is reasonably good in insanely well-done play”
Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980s piece returns to the London stage in a new, limited-running production directed by Michael Longhurst. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show to let us know if its take on a deranged woman’s story is worth some raving or it’s just raving mad. She’s bloody Lulu. We’d better be blunt about…
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‘Next To Normal’ to transfer to the West End next summer
The show will begin performances in June, running for a strictly limited period at the Wyndham’s Theatre. With music by Tom Kitt and book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, the piece explores the struggles of a middle-aged mother dealing with mental illness. It’s alive! It’s alive! It is so alive!!! Frustrations ran high last summer,…
