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The Mirror Crack’d lacks real tension although Susie Blake’s Miss Marple is a comforting presence

30/11/202229/11/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. 28.11.2022. (JPr)

(l to r) Oliver Boot (Chief Inspector Craddock), Sophie Ward (Marina Gregg), Susie Blake (Miss Marple) © Ali Wright

For Blackeyed Theatre ‘The game is afoot’ as Sherlock Holmes decodes The Valley of Fear

26/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Blackeyed Theatre’s Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear: Filmed (directed by Alex Harvey-Brown) at Bracknell’s Wilde Theatre, 16.9.2022, and available here as a digital stream. (JPr)

Dr Watson (Joseph Derrington) and Luke Barton (Sherlock Holmes) © Alex Harvey-Brown

NT Live’s Jack Absolute Flies Again was wonderfully farcical and funny

08/10/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom National Theatre’s Jack Absolute Flies Again (by Richard Bean and Oliver Chris and based on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals): Filmed (directed by Tony Grech-Smith) at the Olivier Theatre, London, and screened by National Theatre Live at Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 6.10.2022. (JPr)

Laurie Davidson (Jack Absolute) and Peter Forbes (Sir Anthony Absolute) © Brinkhoff Moegenburg

GableStage’s Fade explores the complexity of workplace identities with wit and charm

24/08/202224/08/2022 by AUTHOR

United States Tanya Saracho’s Fade: GableStage, Coral Gables, Florida, 19.8.2022. (SL)

Alexandra Acosta (Lucia) and Alex Alvarez (Abel) in Tanya Saracho’s Fade © Magnus Stark

The enchantment of pantomime and aerial ballet: Air Play by Acrobuffos

28/07/202227/07/2022 by Jane Rosenberg

United States Various – Acrobuffos’ Air Play: Broadstage, Santa Monica, California, 24.7.2022. (JRo)

Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone in *Air Play* © Nikola Milatovic

Jodie Comer triumphs in Prima Facie and is one of the outstanding stage actors of her generation

23/07/2022 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie: Recorded (directed for the screen by Matthew Amos) at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre and broadcast by NT Live to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 21.7.2022. (JPr)