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Royal Ballet: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Royal Opera House, London

Writer: Lewis Carroll Reviewer: Chantal Guevara The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ How many of us actually remember the storyline of Alice in Wonderland? For that matter, how many of us even managed to reach the end of the book when we were small children? Familiarity with the storyline certainly helps when watching Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation, given how little sense [...]

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Protein – LOL (Lots of Love) – The Place, London

Director: Luca Silvestrini Reviewer: Lucy Jarvis The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ In a mad dash from person to person, the cast of Luca Silvestrini’s Protein (formerly Protein Dance) tackle love, loneliness and life online in LOL (Lots of Love). Racing through space to the buzzing, bleeping, chiming and clicking of Andy Pink’s techno-inspired score, six dancers whiz, dive and [...]

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Scottish Dance Theatre – The Place, London

Reviewer Lucy Jarvis The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ Captivating, playful and sincere, Scottish Dance Theatre explores the primal and compelling desires of our existence in their 2012 Spring Tour. With refreshing honesty, the ten company members speak to us not as dancers but as people, telling their stories of love, identity and oppression in a varied and lively new [...]

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WHAT’S HOT : 19th March 2012

Catherine Love once again scours the theatrical landscape to bring you our list of show’s that you must see this week – from Shakespeare to Sondheim and from Love to Murder, we have something for all ages and tastes in this weeks mix. 1) SWEENEY TODD – ADELPHI THEATRE, LONDON A vengeful barber, lashings of blood and [...]

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The Seagull Effect – The New Diorama, London

Reviewer: Antoinette Stott The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★½☆ “…the storm amplified the ‘What ifs’ of life…” What if I had said yes, what if I had stayed at the bar, got in the car, joined up, picked up the phone, gone to the park, turned right, had the drink and on and on and on all our decisions [...]

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Song of the Seagull – The Menier Gallery, London

Writer/Director Linnie Reedman Reviewer Sheila Cornelius The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★★ Song of the Seagull is an atmospheric new play at the Menier Gallery. Adapted and directed by Linnie Reedman, it depicts an episode in 1886, when Russian playwright Anton Chekhov and five other young artists spent a country vacation near the Volga. Surrounded by pastoral beauty and away [...]

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Piaf: The Songs – Pleasance Theatre, London

Reviewer: Jonathan Grant The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Simply staged, with roses adorning two tables, and a white backdrop, Eve Loiseau as Piaf evoked “ the Little Sparrow” with a delightful precision and clarity in an evening that paid homage to the French legend. Opening with La Vie en Rose, Loiseau delivered Piaf’s classic with an authentic yet fragile [...]

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Men In Motion II – Sadler’s Wells, London

Reviewer Chantal Guevara The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Ivan Putrov’s first Men In Motion programme was a success for the wrong reasons. Ticket sales had been sluggish until the shock news of co-star Sergei Polunin’s impromptu resignation from the Royal Ballet on 24th January, three days before the opening night, after which the remaining tickets sold rapidly in order [...]

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