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Molly Lynch plays Cathy with excellent comic touches in Southwark Playhouse's The Last Five Years. Image: Pamela Raith 
issue 17 October 2020

Southwark Playhouse has revived an American show, The Last Five Years, whose run was cancelled in March. In advance, I received an email outlining the theatre’s new rules, which appeared to exceed the minimum legal requirements. At the venue, I found that the main entrance had become the exit while the side door had become the main entrance.

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