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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Nick Curtis

Opening Night at the Gielgud Theatre review: even Sheridan Smith can't save this dismally muddled show

This dismally muddled, self-important, furtively misogynist musical about an actress going to pieces squanders the talents of everyone involved, even breaking Sheridan Smith’s unique ability to connect with an audience.

It’s adapted from John Cassavetes’ 1977 film by Ivo van Hove, whose London productions are either sublime or, like this one, awful.

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