Review: Akram Khan’s Giselle, English National Ballet. Sadler’s Wells, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Love, betrayal, redemption! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is mesmerised by the English National Ballet’s revival of
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Entertainment
Review: A Doll’s House, Lyric Hammersmith, London
by Adrian Gillan for Bent.com The subjugation of gender – and race! Bent’s Adrian Gillan fetes Tanika Gupta’s enriched-yet-faithful new
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Review: Falsettos, The Other Palace, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A man; his wife, son, gay lover and shrink; plus lesbian neighbours! Bent’s Adrian
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Review: Torch Song, The Turbine Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for Bent Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys the blistering UK premiere of Harvey Fierstein’s newly streamlined, and still
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Review: The Secret River, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Two families, one continent, as past flows into present! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is rocked by
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Review: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾, The Musical Ambassadors Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.Bent.com Sue Townsend’s eccentrically intellectual, awkwardly vulnerable, timeless teenage icon – set to music! Bent’s
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Coming home to Shakespeare in Stratford!
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Adrian Gillan makes his home-from-home at the amazing old-yet-new Hotel Indigo, in Stratford-upon-Avon – itself
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Review: The Bridges of Madison County, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Constrained housewife and restless wanderer fall in love; must live apart! Bent’s Adrian Gillan swoons
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Review: Bitter Wheat, Garrick Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Burn Hollywood burn! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails John Malkovich’s blistering turn as a casting-couch ogre
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Review: Fiddler on the Roof, Playhouse Theatre London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Insecurity, traditions that bind and the need for change! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails legendary director
Read moreReview: Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A farce about a farce! Bent’s Adrian Gillan loves the latest revival of Michael Frayn’s
Read moreReview: Peter Gynt, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com This age of Facebook fantasy and self-delusion! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s Peter
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Review: The Night of the Iguana, Noël Coward Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Chekov in the jungle! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a revival of gay great Tennessee Williams’
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Review: The Lehman Trilogy, Piccadilly Theatre
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A family business embodies the rise, and stall, of the American Dream! Bent’s Adrian Gillan
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Review: Afterglow, Southwark Playhouse, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com A not unpredictable exploration of the perks and pitfalls of open relationships! But with three
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Review: Rutherford and Son, Lyttleton Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Who’s the Daddy? Lear meets Scrooge as Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a highly relevant revival
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Queer Pagans
by Adrian Gillan for Bent Gay Sex Shop and Magazine Refuge from religion, back to Nature or secret sex cult?
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Review: The Glass Menagerie, Arcola Theatre, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Supressed aspirations, desperate dreams! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a poetic revival of gay great Tennessee
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Review: Vincent River, Trafalgar Studio 2, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Homophobia, within and without! Bent’s Adrian Gillan is shaken by a shattering revival of Philip
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Review: Orpheus Descending, Menier Chocolate Factory, London
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com Repressed passions erupt and are crushed! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails a blistering revival of
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Review: Small Island, Olivier Theatre (National Theatre)
by Adrian Gillan for Bent We are here because you were there! Bent’s Adrian Gillan hails the National Theatre’s powerful
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Review: Man of La Mancha, London Coliseum
by Adrian Gillan for www.bent.com [ Clever charming hymn to idealism, illusion ‘n imagination! Bent’s Adrian Gillan
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