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Ray (Phil Dunster) leans against a fridge. Sylvia (Anjana Vasan) approaches him with an awful chat-up line. It’s funny, there’s chemistry, they marry. Thankfully, Oli Forsyth ’s surprisingly good BRACE BRACE wastes little time dwelling on inconsequential set-up and instead gets us airborne and quickly onto the meatier content. Despite Sylvia’s fear of flying, the couple’s honeymoon plans entail a long-haul flight — big mistake!

Anjana Vasan and Phil Dunster in Brace Brace at Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. Photo credit Helen Murray

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The Greek tragedy of Orpheus and Eurydice already has an oddly unsatisfying musical version in the West End, courtesy of HADESTOWN running at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue. This quirky, much smaller-scale production simply entitled EURYDICE, plays at Jermyn Street Theatre on the opposite side of Piccadilly and offers an altogether different (certainly less musical, though not necessarily traditional) approach to the ancient tale.

Leyon Stolz-Hunter, Katy Brittain and Tom Morley in Eurydice at Jermyn Street Theatre. Photography by Alex Brenner.

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