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Dr.Strangelove, Giles Terera (Turgidson) Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson) photo by Manuel Harlan.
30 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: DR STRANGELOVE at Noël Coward Theatre

Film director Stanley Kubrick’s savage and irreverent 1964 black comedy Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, tapped into the creeping paranoia of the Cold War and has become a timeless movie parody. Now for the first time, theatregoers have an opportunity to enjoy the spectacle of a crazed US Airforce General ordering a pre-emptive strike on the Russians in this West End production of the movie which has been co-adapted by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley, (with the latter also serving as director) starring multiple BAFTA winner Steve Coogan.

Dr.Strangelove, Giles Terera (Turgidson) Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson) photo by Manuel Harlan.Dr.Strangelove, Giles Terera (Turgidson) Steve Coogan (President Muffley), Tony Jayawardena (Bakov), Mark Hadfield (Faceman) Oliver Alvin-Wilson (Jefferson). Photo by Manuel Harlan.

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Stories - The Tap Dance Sensation at Peacock Theatre
28 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: STORIES - THE TAP DANCE SENSATION at Peacock Theatre

Developed by Romain Rachline Borgeaud, STORIES is the tap dance sensation presented by the RB Dance Company, 2018 finalists of France’s equivalent of Britain’s Got Talent. The show has been wowing audiences around Europe and now plays a short run at the Peacock Theatre until 2nd November.

Stories - The Tap Dance Sensation at Peacock TheatreStories - The Tap Dance Sensation at Peacock Theatre.

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John Hollingworth, Adam Hugill, Matt Sutton and Matthew Durkan in Reykjavik. Credit Mark Douet
25 Oct
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Stuart King

Review: REYKJAVIK at Hampstead Theatre

Richard Bean has considerable form when it comes to writing sharp, timing-critical comedy, so the Feb’76 sinking of a fishing trawler off the coast of Iceland resulting in the loss of fifteen souls, would seem an unlikely starting point for the man who gave us One Man, Two Guvnors and Jack Absolute Flies Again. So how does Hampstead Theatre’s latest opener REYKJAVIK measure up in the banter stakes?

John Hollingworth, Adam Hugill, Matt Sutton and Matthew Durkan in Reykjavik. Credit Mark DouetJohn Hollingworth, Adam Hugill, Matt Sutton and Matthew Durkan in Reykjavik. Credit Mark Douet.

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Robyn Rose-Li and Maddison Bulleyment and cast in Fly More Than You Fall at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. Photo Craig Fuller.
24 Oct
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Review: FLY MORE THAN YOU FALL at Southwark Playhouse Elephant

A confident young wannabe writer takes her first tentative steps by enrolling at a writers’ summer camp. Just as she begins to settle and make friends (at the same time as realising everyone has an opinion and is a critic), she is whisked away by her parents who have arrived with devastating news to impart.

Robyn Rose-Li and Maddison Bulleyment and cast in Fly More Than You Fall at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. Photo Craig Fuller.Robyn Rose-Li and Maddison Bulleyment and cast in Fly More Than You Fall at Southwark Playhouse Elephant. Photo Craig Fuller.

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Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre. Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) & Jordan Scowen (Eteocles). Phot credit Manuel Harlan.
17 Oct
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Review: OEDIPUS at Wyndham’s Theatre

Mark Strong and Lesley Manville head an uber strong cast, assembled by Robert Icke for his OEDIPUS — a modernised version after Sophocles, in which political ambitions are upended by long forgotten family deeds, cloaked in a conspiracy of silence.

Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre. Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) & Jordan Scowen (Eteocles). Phot credit Manuel Harlan.Oedipus at Wyndham's Theatre. Phia Saban (Antigone), Mark Strong (Oedipus), Lesley Manville (Jocasta), James Wilbraham (Polyneices) & Jordan Scowen (Eteocles). Phot credit Manuel Harlan.

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