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Six Characters in Search of an Author – MADE EDITORS CHOICE!

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Six Characters in Search of an Author – MADE EDITORS CHOICE!

Review from ONE STOP ARTS *****

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Though occasionally prone to the kind of avant-garde solemnity that can have a Marmite effect on audiences, this revival of Pirandello’s 1921 play at the new old Rose is a conceptual masterstroke, executed with intelligence and flair. At the Rose, Bankside.

On paper, reviving Six [...]

DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE – REVIEWS START COMING IN!

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DIDO, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE – REVIEWS START COMING IN!

There are some genuine laughs and Rhiannon Sommers and James Burgess are engaging enough as the lovers. While the tragic scenes are not as successfully carried out, there is a pleasing simplicity to the moment of Dido’s demise, her body dropping into a bed of red silks.

HAMLET GOES INTERNATIONAL!

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HAMLET GOES INTERNATIONAL!

Suzanne Marie gets into Vancouver Sun newspaper!

“DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE: Within a stone’s throw of London’s river from Feb. 5, audiences at the resurrected Rose Theatre will see 10-year expatriate Suzanne Marie Taylor play Ophelia and Gertrude in Hamlet. The show was last staged at that local in 1594, when playwright William shakespeare stood in [...]

Review from London SE1 Community Website

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Review from London SE1 Community Website

Hamlet at Rose Theatre Bankside
Reviewed by Alice Dickerson
A fast-paced Hamlet which still manages to surprise, despite the play’s familiarity.
Despite much scholarly research, there remain many theories about Shakespeare’s body of work. One is these theories focuses on the length of his plays; some feel that the lengthier ones could not have been performed in their [...]

Reviews for Hamlet are now coming in!

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Reviews for Hamlet are now coming in!

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Hamlet (Published Friday 8 February 2013 at 11:11 by Lauren Paxman)
A 90-minute Hamlet which manages to keep in all of the best bits might sound totally unrealistic to some Shakespeare fans. But few of them will be disappointed by this whistle stop production.
A cast of just four make you fall in love with the [...]

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