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OHMYGOD HEY!

This week, my theatregoing began with two new plays at off West End venues - We Had a World at the Hampstead Theatre, and Under the Shadow at the Almeida.

We Had a World, which I first saw off-Broadway at New York City Center, is an autobiographical memory play in which Joshua Harmon recalls his grandmother and re-examines her character through his mother's eyes.

Under the Shadow is the stage adaptation of a 2016 Iranian-set horror film of the same name that depicts a woman living under the tension of the post revolution regime, amidst the Iran-Iraq war in late 1980s Tehran, which manifests as a supernatural presence.

Check out what I thought of each of these productions...

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00:00 | introduction
01:56 | We Had a World
15:47 | Under the Shadow
26:03 | conclusion

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photo credit (production images): Marc Brenner

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