Review added of Absolute Hell by Rodney Ackland from The National Theatre. This is a huge production with a cast of twenty-eight of the play set in a Soho night club in 1945. Does it justify such a lavish production? Read the review.
Absolute Hell – reviews
05/05/2018 by Peter Viney
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