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Harriet Mercer

Articles By Harriet Mercer

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Bleak Expectations, Criterion Theatre review - popular radio...

We all need a break from time to time, especially now given the grim state of the world. So it’s not surprising that comedy is making something of...

Disney 100 - The Concert, OVO Hydro, Glasgow review - a slic...

There are a few perils to saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, as Janette Manrara discovered on this opening night of...

Album: Dream Wife - Social Lubrication

Five years ago, breaking dry January a few days early, I joined a throng of folks amongst the merch boxes and strip lights of Rough Trade East to...

Mad About the Boy review - entertaining cradle-to-grave Noel...

Devoted fans may not learn anything that new about Noel Coward from Barnaby Thompson’s...

Re-Member Me, Hampstead Theatre review - wittily staged but...

Lip-syncing has become the hobby of many a young TikToker, but only an intrepid professional would contemplate using the technique to...

Album: Baxter Dury - I Thought I Was Better Than You

This is a slight album in terms of length (under half an hour) but not in emotional insight. It’s absolutely...

Amanda review - too-intense Gen Z-er seeks a friend, boyfrie...

Needy, truculent, and aggressive, an in-your-face stick of intensity and guilt-inducing melancholy, privileged young Amanda in Carolina Cavalli’s...

Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park review - Verdi's Duke get...

“I am a poor student,” the Duke tells a smitten Gilda, in music that can barely keep a straight face, so plush is its melody, so oozing with...

Jerusalem Quartet, Wigmore Hall review - singing to make the...

Conversation just before this concert started concerned Verdi’s Il trovatore and the truism that it needs “the four greatest voices in...