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    The Human Body at Donmar Warehouse review: Keeley Hawes is luminous on her return to the stage

    by Nick Curtis Feb 28, 2024 2 minutes
    Source: PR Handout/Marc Brenner

    Keeley Hawes makes an impressive return to live theatre in Lucy Kirkwood’s muddled drama set in 1948, which splices the creation of the NHS together with a black-and-white British postwar film romance.

    A primetime TV favourite for three decades in , and , Hawes shines here, playing a wittily jaded movie star. Though I kind of loved the play’s mix of stridency and scattiness, and the way it juxtaposes theatrical and cinematic action, it’s overstuffed, overlong and unfocused.

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