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Tomcat at Southwark Playhouse, London SE1
4/5
EARLIER this year Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem, set in an institute for brain science, fell flat. The hotly anticipated new work by the so-called greatest living playwright fell victim to its two-dimensional characters and over-intellectualism.
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY