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Review: Candy Gigi’s Friday Night Sinner is an audacious, interactive show depicting a bored Jewish housewife’s chaotic quest for freedom.
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Christina Bianco delights, captivates and amuses audiences at the Menier Chocolate Factory in this funny one woman impressions show. A combination of set pieces (one song by multiple divas) and more improvised numbers in response to audience choices, it is a relaxing and diverting night out. Christina Bianco is a comfortable and engaging host, carrying…
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![Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] ***](https://redbuslondinium.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/pxl_20230507_173655129.mp_.jpg?w=1024)
Authored by Harry Hill and Steve Brown, Tony! is a noisy musical look back at the Blair era. For those who lived through the era, it is a rousing (perhaps nostalgic) piece of fun. Younger members of the audience did find some elements hard to follow, this is really a piece for those who lived…
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Review: The play “Blanket Ban” explores abortion rights in Malta, blending personal testimonies but suffers from excessive narrative complexity.
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While I might have been too embarrassed to name the show at the Box Office once my tickets were in hand, this show was well worth it. Disability-led theatre company FlawBored have produced an irreverent, exposing and hilarious exploration of the complexities of being inclusive. As a teacher, I recognised some of the dilemmas. If…
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Review: The musical “Berlusconi” offers an energetic yet confusing experience, drawing comparisons to “Evita” and “Jerry Springer the Opera.”
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Olaudah Equiano should be a household name, so it is fantastic that, in this play, Giles Terera brings his pivotal story to a wider audience. The deaths on the Zong are a story so important and disgraceful that that story should be heard, too. In this play, Equiano’s own words ring down the ages as…
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Review: The play “Black Superhero” effectively explores friendship, confusion, and self-destruction, enhanced by strong performances and creative staging.
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Ain’t Too Proud has everything you want in a jukebox musical (cracking songs, sizzling choreography) but so much more: a profound and moving story tied to American Black music history. The choreography is fantastic. Sergio Trujillo has produced some innovative and empathetic movement all while using Motown classic moves. The story of the Temptations relationship…
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We all loved this sweeping family saga which gave insights into the development (and fall) of investment banks, particularly Lehman Brothers. It is long and has only three cast members, so is not the show for you if you struggle with you struggle with long spoken shows or actors playing multiple characters. Hadley Fraser, Nigel…
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