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...Slinking through the middle of it all is Alison Oliver’s Portia, a woman so drenched with self-loathing, she’s barely there....
...The porter’s monologue, rewritten by comedian Stewart Lee to bring the political gags up to date, is caustically delivered by Alison Peebles....
...Alison Fitzjohn’s excellent Briana marches about spouting empowerment platitudes, but she’s right about what needs fixing....
...And there’s Christina, Michael’s sweet-natured mother, who still holds a candle for his drifter father, Gerry (Tom Riley), and who, in Alison Oliver’s luminous performance, lights up like a lantern when...
...Meanwhile Alison Pollard’s production feels somewhat cramped by the space. But there are some smart ideas in this adaptation (by David H Bell, Paul T Couch and Curt Wollan)....
...Did Alison’s home visit with her girlfriend offer a glimpse of what he might have had? The question haunts the musical....
...Jonathan Munby’s fine cast includes Pippa Nixon, Alison Steadman and Desmond Barrit....
...In the hands of superb trumpeter Alison Balsom and playwright Samuel Adamson, it becomes the magical link between a rag-bag of disparate scenes, musical episodes, themes and characters in raucous 1690s London...
...And the girlfriends (Alison O’Donnell and Eve Ponsonby) want assurances....
...A giant inflatable of the sculpture of the disabled artist Alison Lapper sat in the middle of the stage, a poignant symbol of unlimited ambition....
...Posner’s cast navigates this superbly and pays tribute to the 1977 television film led by Alison Steadman, without parodying it. Jill Halfpenny is excellent as Beverly....
...As time passes, and no baby appears, Ty Glaser’s pale, eager, girlish Yerma seems to grow increasingly frail and ethereal, in contrast to her fertile neighbour’s warm, easy physicality (the excellent Alison...
...We never leave the living room, a study in muted good taste in Alison Chitty’s design, and gradually it becomes its own sort of hell....
...The drab bedsit (realised in wonderful detail on Alison Chitty’s set) in which the play unfolds seems to suggest, physically, their limited horizons and prospects....
...There’s a fine performance too from Sally Oliver as Barry’s mistress, and from Alison Newman as a tough-talking, big-hearted neighbour....
...John Hemming Political and constitutional reform committee (Graham Allen): Sir Peter Soulsby, Tristram Hunt, Catherine McKinnell and Sheila Gilmore....
...Those who made it had a treat in Alison Steadman’s superb performance and much to savour in Christopher Luscombe’s intelligent, darkly comic production (first seen in Bath last year) – though neither was...
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