Alan Bennett’s comedy, which premiered in 1973 with Alec Guinness in the lead role, is described as “a filthy farce for a less enlightened age” and it is quite unlike anything else he has written. The ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Boy Friend at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London SE1 Sandy Wilson’s The Boy Friend, one of Britain’s most successful musicals, began its life in 1953 as a one-acter at ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Watsons at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London SE1 Jane Austen began writing The Watsons in 1804 when she was in her late twenties. She abandoned it in 1805; and nobody ...
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Robert Tanitch reviews The Bridges of Madison County at Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London SW1 Firstly, there was Robert James Waller’s romantic novel in 1992. “The worst book in living memory,” ...
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