From the moment that Russell Beale sneered that “all the world’s ills were somebody’s fault”, looked up his old friend Beelzebub (played by Jonathan Keeble), and declared that it was better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven, you knew you were in expert hands.
29 March 2018, The Tablet
Paradise Lost in the expert hands of Ian McKellen and Simon Russell Beale
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