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Privates on Parade

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Newest Review: ... ings or messages at you. At the end of the day, Privates on Parade is an entertaining and dramatic story, and one that packs quite a strong emotional punch at times. The acting is excellent throughout. Best of all is Roger Allam as Terri, the drag queen. Allam's one of my favourite stage actors, and is probably ... more

... the main reason I went to see this. He's always watchable, and was the only really good Macbeth that I've seen. Here he camps it up a treat, getting to impersonate Marlene Dietrich, Vera Lynn and Carmen Miranda (and he does an excellent Noel Cowar...more

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Privates on Parade: Contains nudity, strong language and strobe lighting (1555 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 23/01/02 (Very useful, 126 readings)
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(Just to clarify: the play I'm writing about contains nudity, strong language and strobe lighting. This opinion contains nothing of the sort. Hope the title wasn't misleading.) The best thing about living in London, apart from the streets being paved with gold of course, is the huge range of theatre on offer. I'm personally more into the kind of stuff you get at the National Theatre or the RSC than things like the Lloyd Weber musicals and so on, but there's something for pretty much everyone. You get big stars on the London stage (I've seen, amongst others, Kevin Spacey, Jessica Lange, Anna Friel, Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman), excellent ...

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