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Clementine Melvin
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Clementine is on a quest to attend 60 shows this year (she saw just 52 last year), and she’s determined to find productions worth your patronage. The pen (and mind) behind Restricted View, our monthly theatre review—she enjoys listening to dialogue in the stalls (WC) as much as she does from her visually impaired seat in the gods.
Favourite venues include The White Bear Theatre (a pub she’s “been to 4 times in the last year & always loudly laughed in”), The Donmar Warehouse, and The Old Vic. Oh, and the Almeida: “If I can get a ticket.”
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RESTRICTED VIEW #1
BY Clementine Melvin
A monthly review of the (London) Drama.
1. October 2025
3 min. read min. read
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