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Bent bureaucrats, ‘fake dykes’ and bad bakers — this week’s theatre

Comic potential is squandered in Southwark Playhouse’s Eye of a Needle, while Matthew Kelly gives Richard Bean’s Toast an unexpected layer of pathos and humanity

A wizened Victor Mature: Matthew Kelly in Toast [© ben broomfield]
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  • Eye of a Needle

    Southwark Playhouse, until 20 September

  • Toast

    Park Theatre, until 21 September

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