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Feb 15, 2024 · They’re now joined by this rare revival of Dodie Smith’s 1938 play Dear Octopus (at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre), set at a golden wedding anniversary, and led by the superb Lindsay...
Feb 20, 2024 · "Lindsay Duncan is a catty delight in this forgotten West End hit" "Poignant, exquisitely performed theatre – Dodie Smith’s prophetic play mourns a way of life that is already gone" "The plotting is also rather soapy, with not one but two long-lost relations returning from abroad for this golden-wedding celebration of Charles and Dora, plus ...
Feb 10, 2024 · Duncan’s (Hansard, Lyttelton, National Theatre) matriarch Ruth is the reason we are here and she doesn’t disappoint being delightfully catty about the return of relative Belle, of a similar years to herself and, infuriatingly for Ruth, ageing rather well.
Jan 17, 2024 · When ‘Dear Octopus’ was revived in Windsor 30-odd years ago, the Queen Mother apparently wrote to the 92-year-old Smith to say how much she had enjoyed seeing it again.
Imperious matriarch Dora, who is forever finding “little jobs” for everyone, gets the best of these acid putdowns, and the great Lindsay Duncan delivers them with the catty glee of Maggie ...
Feb 15, 2024 · Lindsay Duncan (Dora) in Dear Octopus at the National Theatre, © Marc Brenner. Unless you’re in one of those rare Scrabble-playing, round-the-piano-singing, suspiciously harmonious families, you’ll be all too familiar with the truth that makes Dodie Smith’s 1938 play so joyously and painfully relatable.
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Feb 15, 2024 · Read our five-star review of *Dear Octopus*, starring Lindsay Duncan, now in performances at the National Theatre to 27 March. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.
