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‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

CW: Sexual assault The Michael Pilch Studio might just have been the perfect venue for Women Beware Women. Intimate and beguiling, the audience were made to feel almost as naked...

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GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result...

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‘Undeniably and uniformly exceptional’: Uncle Vanya reviewed

It is a privilege to attend the most anticipated production of the term, and...

Culture Mair Andrews -

“You will kill my children!”: ‘A View from the Bridge’ reviewed

The stellar cast of Labyrinth Productions’ A View from the Bridge delivered a layered,...

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The humour, wit and emotional depth contained within the text are lost to the physicality and slapstick

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The Devil is in the detail of this early modern revival

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Cesca Echlin is unsettled by Four Seven Two's evocation of Huxley's World State

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University College Players capture the extravagance and obscenity of Restoration London in their production of Swale’s 2013 comedy

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The Writer review – ‘jumping out at you in wild, exciting, provocative vitality’

Hickson tries one formal experiment after another and each time brings a different gender-dynamic under her lens

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Ela Portnoy is impressed by this elegant adaptation of the Lorca masterpiece

OCTOPUS – Review

Is OCTOPUS, like the Sex Pistols are now, “just” uncontroversial protest? Or does it strike deeper than that?

Travesties review – ‘a very competent production of a fiendishly complicated play’

Roddy Howland Jackson is charmed by a dynamic, absurdist comedy of historic proportions

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Theatre

‘Controversial but compelling’: ‘Women Beware Women’ Reviewed

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ review

‘Undeniably and uniformly exceptional’: Uncle Vanya reviewed

“You will kill my children!”: ‘A View from the Bridge’ reviewed

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