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Good Girl, Trafalgar Studios
Naomi Sheldon’s monologue makes its way to West End after a Fringe runs at the Old Red Lion and VAULT Festival. It is an exceptional piece of work that has not only made me consider the power of monologue but what it feels like to be a woman. Good Girl is a piece full of…
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Disco Pigs, Trafalgar Studios
2017 marks the 20th anniversary of Enda Walsh’s ‘Disco Pigs’, a play that has spawned various stage and screen adaptations since its debut at Cork’s Triskel Arts Centre in 1996 (which technically makes it the 21st anniversary, but we’re apparently counting from its first major showing at the Edinburgh Festival the following year). To mark…
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Out There on the Fried Meat Ridge, Trafalgar Studios
Emma’s review of the original production can be found here This is a play that has really grown on me. So much so that I am adding an additional ½ star to my original review. The play hasn’t changed much – though there has been a change in cast, with EastEnders bad boy Alex Ferns…
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Buried Child, Trafalgar Studios
Pulitzer Prize-winning classic finally arrives in the West End but was it worth the 37-year wait? On appearances Sam Shephard’s 1979 play seems like your usual American drama; 2.4 children, a fading American matriarch, a dying father but as this three-act play goes on there is something much deeper but not deep enough that it…
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