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Back on the tracks.(Theater Review)

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20050324
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Byline: FIONA MOUNTFORD

The Railway Children Peacock, WC2 THEATRE GENERATIONS now have grown up associating The Railway Children with just one thing: Jenny Agutter's red petticoat.

The much-loved 1970 film captured the dappled world of Edith Nesbit's 1905 novel so perfectly that, to many, the idea of it being offered up in another performance is unthinkable.

Initially, this new version from Nottingham Playhouse's education department seems to validate such an opinion. The trio of now multicultural children wander forlornly over the large, non-scene-specific stage, ...

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