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Amanda Abbington wins stellar reviews for new play When It Happens to You as critics praise her 'expertly balanced humour and profound sadness' while crying real tears


Amanda Abbington's new play When it Happens to You has received stellar reviews from critics following its press night on Tuesday. Here, MailOnline rounds up what the critics have to say about it.

Amanda Abbington's new play When it Happens to You has received stellar reviews from critics following its press night on Tuesday, which praise the actress for 'expertly balancing humour and profound sadness' in her performance. Amanda Abbington 's new play When it Happens to You has received stellar reviews from critics following its press night on Tuesday, which praise the actress for 'expertly balancing humour and profound sadness' in her performance A devastating last-act revelation is shocking, but the statistics we’re left with, spat with controlled rage and anguish by Abbington — that one in four women have been raped, and that this is a conservative estimate — ram home how horrifically quotidian this family’s story is.

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