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Theatre: Kathryn Hunter's tiger roars for God in the hell of the Iraq War-and Scrooge gets a raucous hip-hop remix
The London Standard
|December 11, 2025
Just when I thought the great Kathryn Hunter had done it all, she plays the ghost of a grouchy tiger looking for God on the burning streets of Baghdad during the Iraq War in 2003.
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In vagabond clothes, the powerhouse actress imbues the spectral beast with huge personality, having taken over the part from a poorly David Threlfall at late notice. Remarkably, this is not the strangest thing about Rajiv Joseph's unhinged study of conflict, human cruelty and belief, which is baggy and meandering but full of bold themes and imagery.
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