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Theatre

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1 August 2015

9:00 AM

1 August 2015

9:00 AM

The Gathered Leaves

Park Theatre, until 15 August

Richard II

Globe Theatre, until 18 October

God, what a title. The Gathered Leaves. It sounds like a tremulous weepie about grief and endurance with a closing scene featuring three anvil-faced spinsters staring through the rectory window at an autumn bonfire. It’s not quite like that.

The play opens with some clumsy exposition revealing the political chronology. It’s Easter, 1997, and Labour’s shiny-fanged messiah is about to evict the Brixton mule from Downing Street.

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