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Sunday Telegraph
August 2005

Reviewed by Veronica Lee

Dutch Elm Conservatoire (Pleasance) are a five-man sketch team whose show Conspiracy is a clever take on modern conspiracy theories -- who killed JFK, were the Moon landings real and was Princess Diana's death a plan for Paul
Burrell and James Hewitt to "secure lucrative yet degrading reality TV contracts"? It's an enjoyable, cleverly written and well-performed hour, but I suspect Dutch Elm could have been lauded purely for the most appalling and - forgive me - appallingly funny Diana joke I have ever seen on stage.

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