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Nick Curtis

Life with Oscar at the Arcola review: a sloppy and self-indulgent tale of a Brit adrift in Hollywood

The desire to win an Oscar is the MacGuffin of this sporadically amusing but sloppy and self-indulgent autobiographical solo show from Nick Cohen.

A film-maker and sometime actor, he assumes the familiar mantle of the diffident Brit adrift in Tinseltown to discuss artistic purity, daddy issues, Jewish guilt and countless other themes that this 80-minute work is too skimpy to fully address.

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