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Fiddler on the Roof, Barbican review - lean, muscular delivery ensures that every emotion rings true
Rachel Halliburton |
It’s always a risk when a production changes venue. In the curious alchemy of live performance, no-one can be sure whether a shift in surroundings might rob a show of the glitter and allure it once had.
Heather Neill |
Terence Rattigan's rehabilitation – some might almost say deification – as a leading 20th century playwright is complete. As well as academic studies, biographies and numerous highly respected revivals of his work, there is a growing clamour to accord him the ultimate, deserved, honour: a theatre bearing his name.
Helen Hawkins
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