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- Richard Cotter
Director Rachel Chant has a firm handle on this production although fewer pregnant pauses and a little faster on the pedal should make The Village Bike an even more exhilarating ride.
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- Richard Cotter
With a title that evokes Hollywood melodrama movies, especially from the Forties and Fifties, Only Heaven Knows certainly takes its tropes from time honoured thematics.
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- Richard Cotter
Anticlimactic though fully climatic, 2071 is a lecture, not a play, on the perils facing mankind if we don't act on the obvious changes our climate is experiencing.
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- Penny Spirou
The Ham Funeral is a peculiar journey into the minds and emotions of a small family, mourning the death of a family member who seems to be as loved as he was despised.
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- Jack Teiwes
This is a play which is at turns simple yet complex, richly layered yet straightforward, at turns surprisingly deep and yet skimming the surface.
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- Richard Cotter
The emphatic title You Will Not Play Wagner gives more than a clue about what this play is about.
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