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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 19 November 2009
 
Lion play was no dud

• “GOOD theatres sometimes stage duds”.
Thus your theatre critic Josh Loeb described the two plays currently showing at the Lion and the Unicorn (Review, November 12). A review such as this will undoubtedly pass the death sentence on the shows.
Strangely having seen one of the productions, Christie in Love, I am inclined to suspect I went to a different play!
What the reviewer failed to mention was that this was the first London revival of a 1969 Royal Court production by award-winning British playwright Howard Brenton.
So in itself it is something of a period piece, interesting as a piece of post-war British theatre history.
The playwright intended to shake audiences into a reappraisal of society’s understanding of how a serial killer such as Christie comes into being. The play also revisits the issue of capital punishment, as well as the role and nature of prostitution.
I will also add that this hour-long play is well staged, well acted and imaginatively directed, so would recommend audiences go along and judge for themselves.
Michael Andrew
Prince of Wales Road, NW5

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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