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  Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, collected reviews of revivals 2000-2020

  21st April 2020

  A selection of my reviews of the Caretaker, but first beginning with Harold Hobs...

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  Dubailand, Finborough Theatre, review, Feb 2017

  8th February 2017

  Dubailand Finborough Theatre The tallest this, the biggest that. Dubai has becom...

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  Bugsy Malone, Lyric Hammersmith, review

  29th April 2015

  No beating about Shepherd’s Bush, this Hammersmith Bugsy Malone is a blast ...

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  Oppenheimer, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon, review

  23rd January 2015

  “We could make a star on the surface of the Earth”. Time and again in this t...

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  Alan Bennett at 80: more there than meets the eye

  9th May 2014

  Alan Bennett at 80: more than meets the eye First published in the Daily Telegra...

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  Daniel Kitson tribute, 2014

  24th February 2014

  At a time when British comedians are falling over themselves to appear on panel ...

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  1984, Nottingham Playhouse, review, 2013

  21st September 2013

  1984 Nottingham Playhouse When they come for you – as they must if you commit ...

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  The rise of Lenny Henry, an appreciation – 2013

  19th June 2013

  Lenny Henry: from figure of fun to serious contender: first published in the Dai...

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  Timon of Athens at the National Theatre, review, 2012

  18th July 2012

  Timon of Athens, National’s Olivier Theatre, review Russell Beale gives a ...

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