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DAVID NICHOLSON samples two plays – one funny, one unfunny – that will open at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
(L) Twm Bollen-Molloy and Luke Hereford as Polly Amorous and Esther Parade; (R) Paul Jenkins in Moscow Love Story

Moscow Love Story/Polly and Esther
Sherman Theatre, Cardiff

TWO drag acts, Polly and Esther (★★★★), trying out their material in Cardiff before they head to the Edinburgh Fringe was an absolute joyous evening at the Sherman Theatre.

Twm Bollen-Molloy and Luke Hereford are Polly Amorous and Esther Parade and the evening starts with two cloaked and darkened figures talking to each other like macabre sister witches from Macbeth.

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