Tag: comedy
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A Small Family Business, National Theatre
Tuesday 8th April 2014
reviewAlan Ayckbourn’s over-hyped 1987 play about small-business cheats is fun, but su…
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Two Into One, Menier Chocolate Factory
Wednesday 19th March 2014
reviewVintage Ray Cooney farce from 1984 is fitfully funny, but too conventional to be…
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Good People, Hampstead Theatre
Wednesday 5th March 2014
reviewImelda Staunton stars in an American import about class which is both funny and …
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Handbagged, Tricycle Theatre
Thursday 3rd October 2013
reviewThe fraught relationship between Thatcher and the Queen creates hilarious theatr…
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See How They Run
Tuesday 10th September 2013
blogText of the day: “Sergeant, arrest most of these vicars at once.”
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Mrs Patrick Campbell on Private Lives
Wednesday 17th July 2013
blogQuote of the day: “Don’t you just love it, when Noël does his little hummings at…
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Private Lives
Saturday 13th July 2013
blogText of the day: “All the futile moralists who try to make life unbearable.”
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Beautiful Thing, Arts Theatre
Wednesday 17th April 2013
reviewTwentieth-anniversary revival of this 1990s game-changing classic is shiny brigh…
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A Chorus of Disapproval, Harold Pinter Theatre
Friday 28th September 2012
reviewAlan Ayckbourn’s classic comedy about amateur dramatics is just lite entertainme…
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