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Total Number of Recordings under this letter: 51

WEST END REVIEW The Alchemist (National), Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic), Piano/Forte (Royal Court) and Wicked (Apollo). Mark Shenton (Sunday Express), Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Aleks Sierz (Tribune) and Matt Wolf (Bloomberg) discuss.
“London theatre this autumn is suddenly ablaze with a series of double-star turns.”
Recording Date: 29-Sep-2006
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) chew over Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art (National), Mark Ravenhill's Nation (National), Mike Bartlett's Cock (Royal Court) and Michael Wynne's The Priory (Royal Court). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“My vote went to Alex Jennings because the Britten role is quite seriously underwritten. Auden holds all the cards not least because he's a wordsmith.”
Recording Date: 27-Nov-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Phedre (National), The Cherry Orchard and The Winter Tale's (Old Vic) and Hamlet (Wyndhams). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Phedre is a play that I hitherto admired rather than enjoyed, and yet I loved this magisterial production by Nick Hytner.”
Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) consider Ralph Fiennes in Oedipus (National), TS Eliot's The Family Reunion (Donmar Warehouse) and Tracy Letts' August: Osage County (National).
“August: Osage County is a fantastically assured, confident pastiche but with utterly convincing actors from the Steppenwolf company.”
Recording Date: 05-Dec-2008
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Patrick Marmion (Daily Mail) discuss Enron (Royal Court), The Power of Yes (National), Punk Rock (Lyric, Hammersmith), Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Haymarket) and Speaking in Tongues (Duke of York's). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“As PowerPoint presentations go, if this is the slur being put on it (The Power of Yes), this is one of the best I've seen. I felt that Hare had so much he wanted to say.”
Recording Date: 09-Oct-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Judi Dench as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rose Theatre, Kingston), Measure for Measure (Almeida), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), Three Sisters (Lyric Hammersmith), The Caretaker (Trafalgar Studios) and Six Degrees of Separation (Old Vic). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“I don't think you can say Peter Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is banal, that's absurd! I think it's very true to the spirit of the play...”
Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks critics David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to assess Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith), Three Days of Rain (Apollo Shaftesbury), A View from the Bridge (Duke of York's Theatre) and Complicit (Old Vic). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Spring Awakening is a show that's really breaking new ground for the musical - I think it's a landmark. ”
Recording Date: 13-Feb-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites critics David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to consider Waiting for Godot (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Time and the Conways (National Theatre), A Doll's House (Donmar Warehouse) and Rookery Nook (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Godot is about the pain of living - I felt that this production was wrecked by being in the Theatre Royal Haymarket.”
Recording Date: 22-May-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (1/2) The National's sell-out production of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse is discussed by David Benedict (Variety) and Jane Edwardes (Time Out). Dominic Cavendish (Daily Telegraph) hosts. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“This feels like a breakthrough moment for the National - there is no flaw in the artifice of the puppetry.”
Recording Date: 16-Nov-2007
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) assess Life is a Dream (Donmar), Pains of Youth (National), Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic), Mrs Klein (Almeida) and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Vaudeville). Expletives not deleted. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“One of the great things in the theatre is the Clare Higgins curtain-call, because she'll snap out of angst into this beaming presence.”
Recording Date: 27-Nov-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Jerusalem (Royal Court), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios) and Sister Act (Palladium). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Mark Rylance should get the best actor award for Jerusalem and, if not, it will only be because Sam West gets it for Enron.”
Recording Date: 24-Jul-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) consider Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House (Almeida), David Hare's Gethsemane (National) and Sondheim's A Little Night Music, revived by Trevor Nunn at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
“Gethsemane doesn't really know what it's about... It's hardly the great state-of-the-nation play it probably thinks it is.”
Recording Date: 05-Dec-2008
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Patrick Marmion (Daily Mail) discuss Mother Courage and Her Children (National), An Inspector Calls (Novello), Judgment Day (Almeida), Inherit the Wind (Old Vic) and Lenny Henry's Othello (Trafalgar Studios). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“The idea that if you do something in a Yorkshire accent it somehow makes it more valid and it will speak more strongly to people is unbelievably patronising.”
Recording Date: 09-Oct-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph), and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss The Little Dog Laughed (Garrick), Really Old, Like Forty-Five (Cottesloe, RNT), Peter Brook's 11 and 12 (Barbican), Serenading Louie (Donmar); plus the transfers of Enron (Noel Coward) and Jerusalem (Apollo Theatre). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“One very odd thing about 'Really Old, Like 45' is that it's the third play at the National in the last 18 months to have a scene set at the National...”
Recording Date: 19-Feb-2010
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks critics David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to assess Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane (Trafalgar Studios), Alan Bennett's Enjoy (Gielgud Theatre), Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind (Vaudeville Theatre) and Richard Bean's contentious new play about immigration, England People Very Nice (National Theatre). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Is this the sort of play the National should be doing? It's absolutely the play the National should be doing...”
Recording Date: 13-Feb-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites critics David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to assess The Observer (National Theatre), When the Rain Stops Falling (Almeida) and Grasses of a Thousand Colours (Royal Court). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“When the Rain Stops Falling is about the tyranny of genetic inheritance, relationships between parents and their children, and sexual damage.”
Recording Date: 22-May-2009
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WEST END REVIEW (2/2) Thea Sharrock's revival of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine (Almeida) is discussed by David Benedict (Variety), Jane Edwardes (Time Out) and Aleks Sierz (Tribune). Dominic Cavendish (Daily Telegraph) hosts. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“The play is much more interesting than a simple division between a first half, when everyone is wrong, and a second when everyone is right.”
Recording Date: 16-Nov-2007
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WEST END REVIEW Blackbird (Albery), Embers (Duke of York's), Southwark Fair (National) and Resurrection Blues (Old Vic) reviewed by David Benedict, Alastair Macaulay and Heather Neill. Mark Shenton hosts.
“Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues is an absolute mess but there's something appealing about it.”
Recording Date: 03-Mar-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Brief Encounter (Haymarket Cinema), The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (National) and Speed the Plow (Old Vic) are assessed by Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune), John Nathan (Jewish Chronicle) and Andrew Haydon (Time Out). David Benedict hosts. Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Part of the strength of the 'mucking about' in Brief Encounter is the comic joie de vivre of Kneehigh's method.”
Recording Date: 22-Feb-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Coram Boy (National) and Tom Murphy's Alice Trilogy (Royal Court). Kate Bassett, Jane Edwardes and Heather Neill discuss. Mark Shenton hosts.
“By the end of Coram Boy, there's this wonderful transcendence because of Handel's music.”
Play: Coram Boy
Theatre: National Theatre, Olivier
Recording Date: 25-Nov-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Ducktastic (Albery) and Heroes (Wyndham's Theatre) contemplated by Kate Bassett, John Nathan and Matt Wolf. David Benedict hosts.
“They [The Right Size] are celebrating and mocking magic and bad jokes at the same time.”
Recording Date: 01-Nov-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Edward Scissorhands (Sadler's Wells), Once in a Lifetime (National), and Sunday in the Park with George (Menier) discussed by David Benedict, Alastair Macaulay, Mark Shenton and Matt Wolf.
“You think: Matthew Bourne does this so much better - why isn't it as strong as it could be?”
Recording Date: 16-Dec-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Gem of the Ocean (Tricycle Theatre), The Late Henry Moss (Almeida), The Andersen Project (Barbican), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Apollo) discussed. Mark Shenton hosts.
“Here you have to look to African-American playwrights to get a taste of the black experience.”
Recording Date: 03-Feb-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Hay Fever (Haymarket) and The Voysey Inheritance (National) assessed by Kate Bassett, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf. David Benedict hosts.
“Judi Dench's Judith Bliss is a living paradox, all artifice and pretence and yet absolutely truthful.”
Recording Date: 05-May-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Kate Bassett, David Benedict and Alastair Macaulay discuss Playing with Fire (National), Nathan the Wise (Hampstead) and Epitaph for George Dillon (Comedy Theatre). Heather Neill hosts.
“Joseph Fiennes has got more self-conscious and that's doing weird things to his stage presence.”
Recording Date: 30-Sep-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Kate Bassett, Jane Edwardes and Heather Neill assess Shoot the Crow (Trafalgar Studios) and Richard II (Old Vic). David Benedict hosts.
“There's a problem at the heart of this production, and that - for me - is Kevin Spacey.”
Recording Date: 14-Oct-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies (Adelphi), Private Lives (Vaudeville), London Assurance (National Theatre), Ghosts (Duchess Theatre) and Ghost Stories (Lyric Hammersmith). Recorded at Central School of Speech and Drama, London.
“The whole web community is basically full of malcontents, it seems to me, and no one has ever got anything nice to say about [Love Never Dies].”
Recording Date: 17-Mar-2010
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss the latest West End and off-West End openings: Red (Donmar Warehouse), The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre), Rope (Almeida), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello) and Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory). Recorded at the V&A.
“We really haven't had a theatrical event like this in London in quite a while - where the player is the thing and not the play.”
Recording Date: 18-Dec-2009
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) discuss Arthur Miller's All My Sons (Apollo), Simon Gray's The Late Middle Classes (Donmar), Terence Rattigan's After the Dance (National), Drew Pautz's Love the Sinner (National) and Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly (Almeida). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“The Late Middle Classes was supposed to move into the West End - instead the Gielgud theatre booked Boy Band The Musical.”
Recording Date: 21-Jun-2010
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to share their verdicts on God of Carnage (Gielgud), Never So Good (National) and Jersey Boys (Prince Edward). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“You could accuse Macmillan of being quite a lot of not very nice things - and Brenton doesn't... I was terribly moved.”
Recording Date: 27-Mar-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) asks David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to share their verdicts on Gone with the Wind (New London), Fram (National), Harper Regan (National) and Small Change (Donmar). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
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“Trevor Nunn has been responsible for some of the greatest evenings of my life - I cannot believe he did Gone with the Wind.”
Recording Date: 25-Apr-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites guests Charles Spencer (Telegraph), David Benedict (Variety) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to chew over London's big autumnal productions: Ivanov (Wyndham's), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Gielgud), Now or Later (Royal Court), Riflemind (Trafalgar Studios), Rain Man (Apollo) and in-i (National Theatre). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Without Pirandello we wouldn't have had Pinter or Beckett, all sorts of people. This is the missing link play.”
Recording Date: 26-Sep-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites his guests Charles Spencer (Telegraph), David Benedict (Variety) and John Nathan (Jewish Chronicle) to assess The Revenger's Tragedy (National), Afterlife (National), The Chalk Garden (Donmar Warehouse) and Black Watch (Barbican). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Michael Grandage is now our best director it seems to me - he so rarely puts a foot wrong. Will The Chalk Garden transfer? If it doesn't there's something really sick in the West End.”
Recording Date: 27-Jun-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) invites his guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Charles Spencer (Telegraph) to cast a critical eye over The Pitmen Painters (National), That Face (Duke of York's), The Deep Blue Sea (Vaudeville), Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic) and Rosmersholm (Almeida). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“I would hesitate to send my worst enemy to Deep Blue Sea, because to me this is a really shoddily cast, poorly directed production.”
Recording Date: 27-May-2008
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WEST END REVIEW Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) joins guests David Benedict (Variety), Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) and Matt Wolf (International Herald Tribune) to assess Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Palace Theatre), Plague over England (Duchess Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic) and Burnt by the Sun (National Theatre); plus a tribute to the late Natasha Richardson. Recorded at the National Theatre.
“We are writing speaking and living in an era when critics are under threat - I don't think it looks well that we collectively, as a group, applaud our friends' endeavours.”
Recording Date: 27-Mar-2009
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WEST END REVIEW Market Boy (National), Enemies (Almeida) and Sunday in the Park with George (Menier) assessed by David Benedict, Rachel Halliburton and Sam Marlowe. Dominic Cavendish hosts.
“You need a play that's a show for the Olivier Theatre, and Market Boy absolutely is that.”
Recording Date: 09-Jun-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Musicals galore: Spamalot (Palace Theatre), Cabaret (Lyric), Caroline or Change (National) and Dirty Dancing (Aldwych). Charles Spencer, David Benedict and Matt Wolf discuss the shows. Mark Shenton hosts.
“Musicals thrive on repeat visits, as people come again and again, but I've seen Spamalot twice and that's enough.”
Recording Date: 03-Nov-2006
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WEST END REVIEW National Anthems (Old Vic), A Dream Play (National) and Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar). Kate Bassett, David Benedict, Mark Shenton, Matt Wolf discuss.
“Concerns over Kevin Spacey's season probably are warranted in terms of choice of material.”
Play: National Anthems
Theatre: Old Vic
Recording Date: 28-Feb-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Otherwise Engaged/As You Desire Me. Heather Neill, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf assess Simon Gray and Pirandello revivals. David Benedict hosts.
“To say that it takes too limited a view of society would be like saying Restoration Comedy does.”
Recording Date: 11-Nov-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Phaedra (Donmar), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (National) and The Crucible (Gielgud). Kate Bassett, David Benedict, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf talk.
“The Royal Hunt of the Sun set looked like a tequila sunrise cocktail... anthropologically inauthentic.”
Recording Date: 05-May-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Pillars of the Community (Henrik Ibsen) and Paul (Howard Brenton), running at the National. David Benedict, Heather Neill and Charles Spencer discuss both. Matt Wolf hosts.
“Paul begins absolutely orthodoxically - and then it suddenly gets really quite interesting.”
Recording Date: 11-Nov-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Rock 'n' Roll (Royal Court), On the Third Day (New Ambassadors), Evita (Adelphi) and Avenue Q (Coward). David Benedict, Mark Shenton, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf discuss.
“As a production, On the Third Day is more interesting than Rock 'n' Roll - it is nicely designed and well directed.”
Recording Date: 30-Jun-2006
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WEST END REVIEW Schiller's Mary Stuart (Apollo) and Sam Shepard's The God of Hell (Donmar). David Benedict, John Nathan and Matt Wolf opine. Kate Bassett hosts.
“The God of Hell? If you can imagine a hybrid of the Coen brothers and Pinter, that's what it is.”
Recording Date: 01-Nov-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Smaller (Lyric), Burn/ Chatroom/ Citizenship (National), and The Cut (Donmar). Michael Billington, Alastair Macaulay and Heather Neill discuss. David Benedict hosts.
“Enda Walsh's Chatroom is remarkable - it proves that chatrooms can increase people's sense of solitude.”
Recording Date: 07-Apr-2006
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WEST END REVIEW The Philanthropist (Donmar), Romance (Almeida) and 2000 Years (National). David Benedict, Charles Spencer and Matt Wolf discuss all three. Mark Shenton hosts.
“I just cannot believe that Romance was written by the same man who wrote Glengarry Glen Ross.”
Recording Date: 16-Sep-2005
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WEST END REVIEW Whose Life is it Anyway? and A Life in the Theatre weighed up by David Benedict, Alastair Macaulay and Carole Woddis. Matt Wolf hosts.
“I found her [Kim Cattrall] a charming, clever light comedy actress... but it needs to come from the gut.”
Play: Whose Life is it Anyway?
Theatre: Comedy Theatre
Recording Date: 04-Feb-2005
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WEST END REVIEW: NEW PLAYS SPECIAL Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) discuss Laura Wade's Posh (Royal Court), Lynn Nottage's Ruined (Almeida), Mark Haddon's Polar Bears (Donmar) and Tommy Murphy’s Holding the Man (Trafalgar Studios). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Posh is entertaining but by the time it reaches its conspiracy theory finale, I became less and less convinced.”
Recording Date: 07-May-2010
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WEST END REVIEW: REVIVALS SPECIAL Mark Shenton (Sunday Express) and his guests Kate Bassett (Independent on Sunday), David Benedict (Variety) and Charles Spencer (Daily Telegraph) discuss Hair (Gielgud), Women Beware Women (National), Beyond the Horizon/Spring Storm (National), Shirley Valentine/Educating Rita (Menier Chocolate Factory) and The Real Thing (Old Vic). Recorded at Dewynters, London.
“Hair? I just had a really good time. I was expecting not to because I get quite annoyed by all the hippy nonsense.”
Recording Date: 07-May-2010
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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY The Nora Ephron movie hits the London stage. Ouch!, go Jane Edwardes, Rhoda Koenig and Mark Shenton. David Benedict hosts.
“They were like insects scuttling around a lightbox... you couldn't believe they were in New York.”
Play: When Harry Met Sally
Theatre: Haymarket Theatre Royal
Recording Date: 28-Feb-2004
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WHITE WORKING-CLASS SPECIAL Playwrights Roy Williams and Ashmeed Sohoye talk to Aleks Sierz about two plays - Williams's Days of Significance (RSC) and Sohoye's Rigged (Theatre Centre) - both of which examine the condition of white working-class youth in contemporary Britain. Recorded at Theatre Centre.
“A lot of people in white working-class communities are looking for a way out, and education is one option.”
Recording Date: 21-Aug-2009
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WORLD MUSIC David Benedict, Sam Marlowe and Mark Shenton deliver verdicts on Steve Waters' play, now at the Donmar, and which was inspired by the genocide in Rwanda. Dominic Cavendish hosts.
“This isn't actually a play about Africa, it's really a play about collapsed idealism and its results.”
Play: World Music
Theatre: Donmar Warehouse
Recording Date: 20-Feb-2004
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