After fielding thirsty DMs and (tragically) paying retail, theatre critic Reda Belhadfa takes her seat at the Trafalgar Theatre for Cole Escola 's Oh, Mary! — a madcap Mary Todd Lincoln biopic that’s equal parts camp, cabaret, and a mid-Atlantic meltdown worthy of the First Lady herself. Solicitous and perverted messages notwithstanding, going by my DMs, this has been the most hotly anticipated play for me to review. Now, normally, I would request (see: beg, additionally: s

Reda Belhadfa looks back at the now-ended Christmas production of Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson to dissect how the cannibalised feminism of Kate Hamill's retelling of Conan Doyle's classic evacuates both the art form and the movement of any material force. Photography courtesy of Arcola Theatre/Alex Brenner At first glance you might assume - from it's title at the very least - that the Arcola Theatre production of Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson would be a (very) simple 21st century

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