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1 week ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
Marriage Material (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)Verdict: Irresistible nostalgia Rating:Nobody does family quite like Indians do. For sheer intensity of generational bonds, they are hard to beat – as we discover all over again in the new stage adaptation of Sathnam Sanghera's epic Wolverhampton-set novel Marriage Material. But what's really fascinating about the story of two Sikh girls in Sixties and contemporary Britain is its secret nostalgia for old-fashioned patriarchal ways.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
PATRICK MARMION reviews The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Minerva Theatre, Chichester: A tearjerking musical trek...go armed with KleenexBy PATRICK MARMION Published: 20:06 EDT, 22 May 2025 | Updated: 20:06 EDT, 22 May 2025 Easy mistake to make. You pop out to post a letter in south Devon and wind up walking all the way to Berwick-upon-Tweed by the Scottish border.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
FIRST NIGHT REVIEW: Mrs Warren's Profession - Garrick Theatre, LondonBy PATRICK MARMION Published: 19:12 EDT, 22 May 2025 | Updated: 19:12 EDT, 22 May 2025 Mrs Warren's Profession, Garrick Theatre, LondonRating:Mother and daughter Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter went toe to toe last night in the West End as what else but... mother and daughter.
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2 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
Jack Lowden has become one of the hottest properties on telly since starring opposite Gary Oldman in Apple TV+'s hit spy drama Slow Horses. In fact, our Jack's got so big that no less a figure than Hobbit and Sherlock star Martin Freeman has become his wingman in a new play by David Ireland about two men in Alcoholics Anonymous. As is common with AA stories, the subject matter is raw, excruciating and often alarmingly funny.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
The Deep Blue Sea (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London)Rating:Was there ever a play that craved intimacy like Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea? Starring Tamsin Greig, Rattigan's 1952 tale of Hester Collyer, a society lady who tries to kill herself after an adulterous affair, is a modern classic of romantic neuralgia.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
PATRICK MARMION reviews The Comedy About Spies at the Noel Coward Theatre: A head-spinning winner, spy spoof hits comedy goldBy PATRICK MARMION Published: 19:27 EDT, 13 May 2025 | Updated: 19:29 EDT, 13 May 2025 The Comedy About SpiesNoel Coward Theatre, LondonRating:Mischief Theatre, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong, did it again last night with yet another hit for theatreland.
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4 weeks ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
Here We Are (Lyttelton, National Theatre)Verdict: StuckRating:Full marks for effort. The National Theatre has really pushed the boat out for the last show by the late god of musical theatre, Stephen Sondheim, who died in 2021. The posthumous production – which premiered in Manhattan’s Shed theatre in 2023 – stars Tony award-winner Jane Krakowski (30 Rock), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family) and leading British thesp Rory Kinnear in a top-notch cast of 17.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
Krapp’s Last Tape (Theatre Royal, York)Verdict: Makes perfect senseRating:Gary Oldman’s surprise appearance at York’s Theatre Royal actually makes perfect sense. The Hollywood star has chosen to make his stage comeback — after 37 years — in Samuel Beckett’s 50-minute monologue about a rueful old git, surveying the paltry wreckage of his life. The character is a perfect foil for the dishevelment of Oldman’s other rueful old git, Jackson Lamb, in Apple TV’s Slow Horses.
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2 months ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
Apex Predator (Hampstead Theatre, London)Rating:It's a horror show at the Hampstead Theatre. John Donnelly’s muddled new play, ostensibly the tale of a young mother suffering from severe post-natal depression, turns into a one-woman, blood-sucking revenge mission against toxic masculinity. How did it all go wrong?
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2 months ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Patrick Marmion
North by Northwest (Theatre Royal, York and touring) Verdict: Packs a punch Rating:Alfred Hitchcock is suddenly flavour of the month. But his 1959 classic North By Northwest really ought to be unstageable. It starts out in New York before heading to the Prairies, and reaching its peak on the summit of Mount Rushmore. But all that is just grist to the mill of director Emma Rice in her effortlessly chic new adaptation.
