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- Penelope Broadbent
The Water Carriers is one of those surprising works that ends in an emotional space entirely different to that in which it begins, and pleasantly, it takes its audience along with it.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Oh dear. Princess Dramas, by Austrian writer Elfiede Jelinek, is hard work from beginning to end.
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- Liza Dezfouli
The Bearskinner is an innovative take on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about how not to sell your soul to the devil.
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- Penelope Broadbent
It is difficult to know what this play is actually hoping to achieve. It depicts stereotypical, unrecognisable characters, and highly unlikely coincidences.
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- Penelope Broadbent
The two pieces, though very different in style and mood, are together a reflection and celebration of spirit; of life’s journey – here on earth and afterward, as well as in the origins and basis of classical ballet itself.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Character actress Jennifer Coolidge is a gay icon already, only 6 months or so into her stand up comedy career. She filled Athenaeum filled on Thursday night and had her gay boys hooting and yelping. Me, not so much.
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