Dominic Cavendish
- Reviewer
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Labour of Love: valid and valiant response
It possibly ranks as one of Tamsin Greig's finest hours, even if this isn't James Graham's - the script contains a handful of the most laboured gags you'll hear outside the perimeters of the party conferences, the sitcom-ish second scene urgently needs fixing and poor Rachael Stirling as Lyons's unsupportive wife is saddled with the sort of horsey, stuck-up stereotype even Class War would find lacking in nuance. Not a landmark theatrical victory, at the final count, but valid and valiant all the same.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 4th October 2017Best theatre at the Fringe 2017
Here's our pick of this year's theatre line-up.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 29th July 2017Tony Slattery interview
Returning to the Fringe for the first time in 33 years, Tony Slattery reveals to Dominic Cavendish just how lucky he is to be alive.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 19th July 2017Micky Flanagan, review - worth every penny
The highest-earning comedian of 2016, thanks to the box-office stampede for this, his third arena tour, Micky Flanagan is, to borrow his own words, absolutely loaded. An' Another Fing begins with the cockney geezer fessing up to piles of filthy lucre.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 19th May 2017The Philanthropist review
Simon Bird and Lily Cole are a treat in this pungent tragi-comedy.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 20th April 2017Tamsin Greig decries critic's 'unenlightened vocab'
Actor Tamsin Greig has accused Telegraph theatre critic Dominic Cavendish of using "unenlightened vocabulary" after he claimed her gender-swapped casting in Twelfth Night was contributing to "the death of the great male lead".
Giverny Masso, The Stage, 27th March 2017Ricky Gervais: Humanity, review
It feels as though British stand-up has gone a bit quiet in the past few years, at least compared to its morale-boosting boom period during the post-Credit Crunch bust. Is that partly due to the absence of Ricky Gervais?
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 22nd February 2017Jack Whitehall review
I was in Waitrose the other day..." How's that for the opening gambit of a comedy show? Jack Whitehall has fashioned a remarkable and lucrative career as a stand-up by saying the unsayable. Not about sex, but shopping.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 6th January 2017Once in a Lifetime review
Harry Enfield makes the grade in his stage debut.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 7th December 2016Could it really be that Russell Brand has mellowed?
The piece-de-resistance of the night - at least one of the most printable confessions - concerned a woman in the front-row, who admitted to sending smart-phone recordings of her latest wind-emissions to a friend. It provides a faintly gobsmacked Brand with the golden opportunity to affirm his thesis that we humans are too complicated and oddball for the usual social and political norms to make any sense.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 8th November 2016