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Nuclear War/Buried/Graceland, The Old Red Lion
The Old Red Lion’s offering three plays for the price of one, but is it worth leaving the live football for?
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The Moor, Old Red Lion Theatre
Review by Melinda Haunton Some thrillers go straight for the throat. Some follow a relentless thread to the denouement. The Moor takes another, more interesting route, circling around mystery and truth, revisiting one incident, or one night, swirling the audience in deeper to the answer to the mystery. Catherine Lucie’s’s new play pulls off the…
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Mrs Orwell, Old Red Lion
On what would turn out to be his death bed, writer George Orwell proposed to Sonia Brownell, an assistant magazine editor 16 years his junior. Brownell, in love with French philosopher Maurice (who’s married) and a fixture at fashionable London gatherings of artists and writers, was initially reluctant to accept but later warmed to the idea.…
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One Last Thing (For Now), Old Red Lion Theatre
This devised production from director Lilac Yosiphon and Althea Theatre’s cast of 8 has some excellent source material in the form of letters about love and conflict but it feels like an end of year showcase with too many ideas that aren’t fully developed and keenness to show all their talents rather than focusing on what…
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