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...Aimee Lou Wood’s gently sincere Sonya, meanwhile, is the quiet anchor of the play....
...Sonya Yoncheva projects Iolanta’s girlish innocence better than the by-then too mature Anna Netrebko in 2015....
...A bust of Charles V stands watch over several acts, not because the absent king has supernatural powers, but because families are doomed eternally to repeat their own fatal patterns....
...Gin Bar, Holborn Dining Room, 252 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EN; holborndiningroom.com/gin-bar Bar8 at Gastrovino, 257 King’s Rd, SW3 5EL; gastrovino.co.uk Photograph: Sonya Metzler...
...Completing the jolly assembly is Alais (Sonya Cassidy), supposedly Richard’s fiancée but in fact Henry’s mistress, and her half-brother (Rory Fleck-Byrne), the proud King of France....
...Is there a finer “king” actor living than Ian McDiarmid?...
...But she is Sonya (Frances Barber), the niece of Uncle Vanya, and he is Andrey (Niall Buggy), the brother of the Three Sisters....
...Greene King’s shares fell 16p to 964½p, while JDWetherspoon fell 14p to 567½p....
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