You probably won’t get a ticket – they’re going for hundreds of pounds on resale sites - and, if you do, will struggle to stretch the budget to a programme, which tries to justify an astonishing £10 cover price through the strategy of being the size of an LP cover and including a few colour photos of Bradley Cooper, the Oscar-nominated (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle) Hollywood star whose involvement is the main reason that people can be charged so much to get into it and find out who else is in it.Those who skip the programme certainly won’t be missing anything and failing to see the play may be less of a loss than the level of publicity has suggested. The production has transferred almost directly from Broadway, where it received four Tony aw
18 June 2015, The Tablet
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