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  • The Big Issue

    Theatre

    Aug 14, 2023 3 minutes

    REVIEW

    ‘The songs feel like they’ve always been with us’

    In 1980, ABBA released their seventh studio album, Super Trouper. It ends with a live recording of The Way Old Friends Do, a song about friendship’s power to carry us through “times of joy and times of sorrow”.

    Now, a play of the same name is coming to the Criterion Theatre in London’s West End. Written by Ian Hallard and directed by husband Mark Gatiss, the play,

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