The hardest part of writing a theatre review - or anything else, really - is devising an introduction that makes the reader want to continue to the end. The Evening Standard's Nicholas de Jongh certainly got my attention with this:

Never in my theatre-going experience has a first night failed to continue after the interval. Peter Stein's flamboyantly mediocre production of Troilus And Cressida achieved this feat ...

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