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PATRICK MARIMON reviews A Man For All Seasons: Professional as ever, but Shaw's too old for More

He became a less volatile figure on TV as Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, but he's always impressed on stage, and this is his second pop at A Man For All Seasons.

First seen at the Jermyn Street Theatre last year, it’s written in Trinidadian patois and relays the high hopes of young men arriving in London after the sunshine of the Caribbean — only to be greeted by hunger, racism, and a miserable climate. First seen at the Jermyn Street Theatre last year, it’s written in Trinidadian patois and relays the high hopes of young men arriving in London after the sunshine of the Caribbean — only to be greeted by hunger, racism, and a miserable climate The petition has been clumsily cobbled together by a slightly hyper middle-aged white man (Scott Sparrow) and his estate agent wife (Olivia Darnley) — in league with a start-up sandwich shop owner (Kai Luke Brummer) and his yogi partner (Robyn Rainsford).

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