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Surprising flop from a top-class team: To Have and To Hold, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

To Have and To Hold feels like an instalment of Mission: Impossible in comparison with Lynn Nottage Clyde’s at the Donmar

Christopher Fulford and Alun Armstrong in To Have and To Hold at Hampstead Theatre. Image: Marc Brenner
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  • To Have And To Hold

    Hampstead Theatre, in rep until 25 November

  • Clyde’s

    Donmar Warehouse, until 2 December

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