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As all the critics agree, Elena Roger's Piaf at the Donmar is spellbinding. Alas, the same cannot be said about the play itself Practically Piaf ... Elena Roger as the French icon. This was how the Daily Express's Paul Callan...
Charles Spencer reviews Gigi at the Open-Air Theatre, Regent's Park If you or I were to stand in a public place frequented by sweet little kiddies and sing "Thank 'eaven for little girls" in a dodgy French accent, the police...
Charles Spencer reviews Piaf at the Donmar Warehouse There is something unhealthy about the public obsession with the tragic divas of popular song. The playwright Pam Gems recognised the appeal of doomed celebrity earlier than...
Our theatre critic Charles Spencer pays tribute to Simon Gray, the playwright who died last week The first time I encountered the work of Simon Gray was watching his play Otherwise Engaged (1975 ). Gray, of course, was always...
