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High Noon review

“Woefully little tension”
Billy Crudup and Denise Gough in High Noon at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Photo: Johan Persson
Billy Crudup and Denise Gough in High Noon at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London. Photo: Johan Persson
Denise Gough and Billy Crudup struggle to enliven this stiff western

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