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Lust for life
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Hogarth’s Progress
Rose, Kingston
THIS double bill from Nick Dear is a bawdy romp — a delve into the seething underbelly of 18th century London, with its buxom wenches and pox-ridden punters.
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Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN
MARY CONWAY recommends a play that some will find more discursive than eventful but one in which the characters glow