Circus of Dreams
By Lyn Gardner for The Guardian


There are stirrings down at the Albany, the Deptford venue that buzzed during the late 1970s and early 1980s and then fell into disrepair. How can you have arts in the community when the country is governed by a prime minister who does not believe in society? The regeneration project currently taking place at the Albany demonstrates just how wrong Margaret Thatcher was, and if this Christmas show is not the best advertisement for what is happening down there, at least it reminds us that the Albany is alive and kicking.
The problem with Circus of Dreams is that it overreaches itself.

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