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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

I Do review – immersive hotel drama as wonderful as a real wedding day

Tessie Orange-Turner and Carla Langley as the bride in I Do by Dante or Die at the Malmaison hotel.
Ten minutes before tying the knot … Tessie Orange-Turner and Carla Langley as the bride in I Do by Dante or Die at the Malmaison hotel. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

When isn’t there big family drama in the buildup to a wedding? The nerves, the tantrums – sometimes even charges of “inappropriate” first dances. Isn’t it all part and parcel of the apparently perfect day?

That emotional messiness is laid bare in Dante or Die’s utterly gorgeous site-specific show, first performed in 2013, now reprised at a number of Malmaison hotels, including this one in London as part of the Barbican’s Scene Change season.

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