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The Pirates of Penzance, Wilton’s Music Hall

April 14, 2010

After a successful run last summer at Southwark’s Union Theatre, Sasha Regan’s boisterous, all-male cast relocate to the East End for a riotous evening. With a score that makes no concession to all the female characters being played by men, some truly impressive falsettos are on display. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Alan […]

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Lord Arthur’s Bed, King’s Head

March 5, 2010

There are moments during this short play by Martin Lewton that seem to border on genius, only to be followed by several more moments of utter bewilderment. Spencer Charles Noll and Ruaraidh Murray play gay couple Donald and Jim, who celebrate the first anniversary of their civil partnership by re-enacting tales of two Victorian cross-dressers […]

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La Cage aux Folles, Playhouse

May 12, 2009

No matter how brash, how funny, how camp La Cage aux Folles gets - and it is frequently all three at once - it is at its best in the moments of quiet, defined as they are by the freneticism that surround them. Philip Quast, returning to the role of Georges that he held in […]

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