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  • Review of ‘Holy Fool’: “Shostakovich-themed play brings no harmony — but it doesn’t conflict either”

    Review of ‘Holy Fool’: “Shostakovich-themed play brings no harmony — but it doesn’t conflict either”

    It’s difficult enough to sit through a two-and-a-half-hour play following a first-thing flight from New York for writers Rosalind Adler and Lea Sellers to make things worse. And worse, they make them — to a point where the tedium becomes torturous. Bear in mind that the plot is set during Stalin’s oppressive regime. But ironically,…

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    4 September, 2026
    English contents, Reviews, Sin categoría
    classical music, historical play, holy fool, Lea Sellers, off west end, park theatre, Rosalind Adler, shostakovich, soviet union, stalin
  • Review of ‘1984’: “This show is big, brother”

    Review of ‘1984’: “This show is big, brother”

    The literary classic returns to the London stage through this new adaptation written by Ryan Craig and starring theatre and television star Keith Allen. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if the latest take on Orwell’s dystopian universe manages to boast enough authority. Those who control thought own the…

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    13 November, 2024
    English contents, Reviews, Sin categoría
    1984, big brother, dictatorship, dystopian, george orwell, keith allen, mark quartley, play, richmond theatre, ryan craig, stage adaptation, stalin, tour production

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