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Peter Groom is Dietrich: Live at Wiltons

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    What is the enduring appeal of Marlene Dietrich? What makes her still so bewitching? Especially to queers? Peter Groom’s one (wo)man show Dietrich: Natural Duty, currently on at Wilton’s Music Hall in East London, certainly goes some way to answering that. The ethereal beauty, the playfully enigmatic personality, the sense of a woman very much in control … Continue reading



Peter Harrington reviews MAURICE: a total triumph of a production

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E.M. Forster’s MAURICE  ☆☆☆☆☆ Having recently seen the wonderful BFI restored 1987 film of Maurice it seemed to me an impossible mission to view this as a play considering the time span and many different scenes and locations. How wrong – this is a stunning, inventive production, David Shields has created a very innovative set … Continue reading



Peter Harrington reviews the disappointing revival of F*cking Men

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F*cking Men ☆☆ After a series of sell-out runs in London, Edinburgh and Dublin, F*cking Men returns to the King’s Head Theatre for a strictly limited three-week run, celebrating the show’s critically acclaimed history at the venue featuring new cast members. Inspired by the classic play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897, Tony Award-winning … Continue reading



Peter Harrington reviews The Unbuilt City ‘a rather deep and fascinating tale’

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SANDRA DICKINSON & JONATHAN CHAMBERS IN THE UNBUILT CITY AT KING’S HEAD THEATRE  ☆☆ On a cold afternoon in February, Jonah knocks on the door of a townhouse in Brooklyn Heights.  He’s come to ask Claudia to sell her famously secret collection to a university archive. But in order to do that, he’ll have to persuade her … Continue reading




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