Tag: Ben Allen

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Casting news aplenty!

I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted…

Posted in Not-London Theatre Tom Morton-Smith UK

Review: Oppenheimer, Swan Theatre

“We could make a star on the surface of the Earth” Michael Billington notes in his Guardian…

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Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Propeller at Hampstead Theatre

  “It will make the man mad, to make a woman of him” It is nigh on…

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Re-review: Twelfth Night, Propeller at Hampstead Theatre

“Ay marry, what is he?” It’s over six months since Propeller started their most recent tour and…

Posted in Not-London Propeller Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Review: Twelfth Night, Propeller at Yvonne Arnaud

“What kind of woman is’t?” In what is now a bit of a tradition (although I was…

Posted in Not-London Propeller Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK

Review: The Winter’s Tale, Propeller at the Crucible

“Many a man there is” The second part of Propeller’s current double bill is The Winter’s Tale…

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Review: Henry V, Propeller at Yvonne Arnaud

“May I with right and conscience make this claim” After the phenomenal success of their pairing of…

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Review: All’s Well That Ends Well, National Theatre

All’s Well That Ends Well is one of Shakespeare’s so-called ‘problem plays’, not easily classified as a…