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Review: The Ladder, Gilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Fringe

August 8, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Would you rather be married to a man who is funny but thoughtless or one who is kind but boring? This is one of the

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Review: Sticks and Stones, Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe

August 7, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Boris Johnson may somehow be able to get away with joking that women in burqas look like pillar boxes and bank robbers but for the

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Review: For Reasons That Remain Unclear, King’s Head Theatre

July 28, 2018 mstjl Reviews

All is not as it initially seems in Mart Crowley’s play For Reasons That Remain Unclear which is having its European premiere at the King’s

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Review: The Jungle, Playhouse Theatre, London

July 8, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Just as some of the British media used the Jungle to heighten fears of refugees, the play reveals what the camp came to mean for

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Julius Caesar and Me by Paterson Joseph

Feature: Paterson Joseph’s revealing account of Shakespeare’s ‘African play’

June 6, 2018 mstjl Features

Mark Ludmon reviews Julius Caesar and Me – Paterson Joseph’s revealing book exploring Shakespeare’s “African play”, Julius Caesar With its glowing reviews and sold-out performances,

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Leave Taking

Review: Leave Taking, Bush Theatre, London

June 1, 2018 mstjl Reviews

It is hard to believe that Winsome Pinnock’s seminal play Leave Taking premiered as long ago as 1987. Its exploration of the dislocated identity of

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Mood Music at The Old Vic Photo by Manuel Harlan

Review: Mood Music, Old Vic, London

May 5, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Mark Ludmon reviews Joe Penhall’s new play Mood Music at the Old Vic for BritishTheatre.com Anyone who has compared the performance of a new play

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR CORRECT ASSEMBLY

Review: Instructions For Correct Assembly, Royal Court Theatre, London

April 15, 2018 mstjl Reviews

However carefully you read the instructions of your flat-pack furniture, the chances are you’ll find it doesn’t always come together as planned. The premise of

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The Inheritance Young Vic

Review: The Inheritance, Young Vic, London

March 29, 2018 mstjl Reviews

In Howards End, EM Forster famously wrote of the need for people to “only connect” – a philosophy that ran through all his fiction. In

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Kiss of the Spider Woman Menier

Review: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Menier Chocolate Factory, London

March 22, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Manuel Puig’s classic novel Kiss of the Spider Woman has been through several incarnations, including the author’s own stage version, a film and a musical,

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Great Apes Arcola

Review: Great Apes, Arcola Theatre, London

March 20, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Reality shifts for Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Dykes who wakes up one morning to find he is a chimp in a chimp-run world where humans

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Sondheim on Sondheim

Review: Sondheim on Sondheim, Royal Festival Hall, London

March 16, 2018 mstjl Reviews

Even the most lavish musical productions in the West End may stretch to only 20 musicians, with most having far fewer, so a one-off staging

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