Month: September 2024

AWARDS LONGLIST: MONSTAS: Best Theatre, Music, TV, Film & Podcasts of 2024 so far (part 1 of 2)

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You, dear reader, are given the chance to vote in 17 categories from October this year to tell us your favourite theatre, music, TV, film and podcast of 2024.

  • Read on for reasons including 9 of 17 categories of our Best Theatre, Music, TV, Film and Podcasts of 2024 so far
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THEATRE REVIEW: Death Of England: The Plays starring Paapa Essiedu, Erin Doherty, Thomas Coombes & Sharon Duncan-Brewster

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By Neil Durham

WORTH A LOOK?: ****/*****/****

WHEN?: Saturday 24 August and runs through 28 September 2024 RUNTIME: 3 successive 100-minute plays without interval

Paapa Essiedu (The Effect, National Theatre) plays Delroy in the 2nd of these intertwined state-of-the-nation dramas and it’s a performance so electric it draws an immediate standing ovation from an audience including Pedro Pascal and Russell Tovey (Constellations, Vaudeville Theatre) who are sitting together near our front row seat.

  • Read on for reasons including how this is brutally honest and unflinching work unafraid to take a deep dive into the nation’s heart
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