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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Killing the Cat review – musical about science v God is purr-gatory

From left: Molly Lynch, Kluane Saunders, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Tim Rogers and Madalena Alberto in Killing the Cat.
Spectacularly strange … from left: Molly Lynch, Kluane Saunders, Joaquin Pedro Valdes, Tim Rogers and Madalena Alberto in Killing the Cat. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

This musical begins like a cheesy Mills & Boon romance and goes downhill from there, taking bizarre turns into biomolecular science.

Maggie (Madalena Alberto), a celebrated biophysicist who only believes in the material world, goes to Italy and meets Luke (Tim Rogers), who wears his shirt unbuttoned almost to the navel and gives mountaintop tutorials about mysticism.

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