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The Priory, Royal Court Theatre
The Priory, Royal Court Theatre
Seasonal satire on the stress of success
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Kiss 2009 goodbye: 'Suddenly you don’t feel like laughing any more'Photo: Johan Persson/Royal Court
If it’s not quite the time of year to start making New Year resolutions, then it’s not far off. Everywhere, you can read the signs: bright lights on the main shopping streets, merry cash registers ringing and the sound of yule logs being felled in empty forests. Plus chronic gift anxieties and a grim foreboding about the coming Election Year. In Michael Wynne’s new comedy, The Priory, which opened last night at the Royal Court, a New Year’s Eve party gives us a taste of what’s to come.
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