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Navigating 21st century dating without moralising
SIMON PARSONS enjoys a seemingly mismatched drama with likeable personalities and amusing dialogue
Tom Kay as Jake Newhouse and Maja Simonsen as Anna
[Ali Wright]
ANDY HEDGECOCK enjoys an unusual collection of stories that refract class consciousness through the flexible lens of folk horror
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MARK JONES recommends a spellbinding set of swirling visuals and endless dub sorcery
Banging Denmark
Finborough Theatre
RECEIVING its European premiere, Van Badham’s play is a sparkling rom com that dissects some of the controversial, contemporary issues with dating.
Tom Kay plays the successful, misogynist podcaster and self-help, pick-up artist, Jake Newhouse, aka Guy Dewitt. His uncompromising sexist broadcasts to needy males going by such absurd pseudonyms as Hammerhead and Mr Tearsdry might sound as if they are out of an Andrew Tate playbook if they were not so comically ridiculous.
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