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Writer. Amateur violinist. Former teacher. The Alzheimer's Diaries 2022. This Writing Business 2025. Unheard Voices: Tales from the Margins of Literature 2025
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Being Mr Wickham (Susan Elkin reviews)

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By Susan Elkin Verified
| susanelkin.co.uk
Being Mr Wickham Written and performed by Adrian Lukis Directed by Guy Unsworth Minerva Theatre, Chichester Star rating: 4 Everybody remembers Pride and Prejudice’s Mr Wickham. He’s the cad who elopes with Lydia and has to be paid off by Darcy. But few remember him better than actor Adrian Lukis who played him the 1995 TV version, famed for Colin Firth in a wet shirt. Lukis’s entertaining 60 minute play presents Wickam at 60 reminiscing late at night in his own home.
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WRAP PARTY by Harry Petty at Jack Studio Theatre

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By Susan Elkin Verified
| londonpubtheatres.com
‘Beautifully observed hilarity’ ★★★★ This two hander was inspired by the creators running a cramped catering caravan on a busy film set and it’s terrific fun. Half the stage (right) comprises a realistic catering kitchen in a capsule so that the actors can run in and out of it, take orders and use the “outside” space which is the rest of the stage. Designers Alfie Frost and Tash Tudor have done a good job with this.  And there’s a lot of beautifully observed hilarity in Harry Petty’s play.
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Susan's Bookshelves: Rivals by Jilly Cooper

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| susanelkin.co.uk
I had never read a Jilly Cooper novel nor seen any sort of dramatisation. It simply didn’t sound my sort of thing although I was aware of her “thoroughly good egg” status and admired her stoical work ethic. Then, when she died last month, I realised from the warm obituaries just how dearly loved and respected she was. So I decided it was time to throw my JC virginity (a fitting metaphor) to the winds and give her fiction a whirl.
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