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Review: Once – Phoenix Theatre, London

Review: Once – Phoenix Theatre, London

Blood Brothers spent 21 of its 24-year West End run at the Phoenix Theatre and, during those two decades, sent countless audience members out into the night wiping the tears away. New Phoenix incumbent Once goes for a much more subtle tug of the heartstrings but is no less powerful or effective. The film to…

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Review: People – National Theatre, London

Review: People – National Theatre, London

“People, People who need people”… Barbara Streisand’s famous song wasn’t the inspiration for Alan Bennett’s latest play for the National Theatre. In fact if Bennett’s theme is understood it’s more a case of people who don’t want people. In a large, crumbling Georgian pile Lady Dorothy Stacpole is confined to one room, the leaking roof,…

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