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Triumph (Almeida Theatre, London) - ★★★★ REVIEW of Caryl Churchill's 17 minute play

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Show Notes

A few days ago, Mickey-Jo headed to the Almeida Theatre to see a play that was 17 minutes long.

Triumph, a brief new piece from Caryl Churchill, is also running concurrently at the Public Theatre in New York, and depicts a press secretary under a ruthless Roman era Emperor.

Find out what Mickey-Jo thought of this play and what was achieved, and lost, in its brevity, in a review which is also 17 minutes long...

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