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Fizzing with humour, charm, and just a touch of chaos, Paul Hart’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a particularly light and delightful
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Sex, death, and grubbily nostalgic Americana slosh together in all of Christopher Brett Bailey’s work. Suicide Notes, touring in support of a
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Written in response to the Orlando nightclub shooting, Guillem Clua’s The Swallow is a slow burning, occasionally shattering play about the unspoken
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In an alternate 1940, King Edward VIII is on the throne, Nazi troops are advancing through Surrey, and the British government has
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In the wake of the Brexit vote, our political climate can feel fraught, uncertain, and downright bleak. Danielle Pearson’s time-hopping, multi-character monologue
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Feeling perhaps more chilling in the era of Twitter and Trump than it did at its 1994 debut, Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass
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Harkening back to a vanished historical moment when Britain willing sheltered child refugees, Diane Samuels’ softly-spoken tragedy commemorates 80 years since the
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When Fleetwood Mac sang Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, their tone was optimistic. Writer and Director Lou Stein, however, turns the title
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Accused of anti-Semitism, successful poet Bev unravels in the midst of a social media storm in Checkpoint Chana, a sharply relevant but
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Casting new light on the ambiguities central to Henry James’ influential literary ghost story, Tim Luscombe’s Turn of the Screw is intelligent,
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Following the fortunes of a struggling amateur rugby club, John Godber’s 1984 underdog tale gets a playful and accessible treatment in Fingersmiths’
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Exploring the common anxieties underpinning contemporary life, The Drill is a smart, playful examination of the urge to over-prepare ourselves for future
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Closures, consolidation, and restructuring: Dave Fargnoli reviews a re-fashioning of John Dryden's Aureng-zebe.
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Raw, moving, and unashamedly melodramatic in parts, this stylish production of Romeo and Juliet from director Charlotte Conquest conveys all the play’s
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Taking its title from a well known beauty spot on the Cornish coastline, Booby’s Bay is a bleakly comic character study infused
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Kicking off a regional tour with a run at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Alastair Whatley’s jovial and energetic staging of The Importance
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When your crime caper revolves around fulfilling the dying request of the love child of Marilyn Monroe and Michael Caine, it should
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Gently exploring the intersections of intimacy and technology, There or Here is a meandering philosophical drama from Anglo-American company Special Relationship Productions,
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With the culture of plausible ignorance surrounding sexual harassment in the arts having been definitively shattered by recent high-profile allegations, a constructive
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Accusing any performance of Brecht’s ferociously didactic Fear and Misery of the Third Reich of lacking subtlety may seem redundant. Yet while
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The need to be understood: Dave Fargnoli reviews Tim Cowbury's new play about seeking asylum and being lost in translation.
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Colourful and competently delivered, Alan McHugh’s Jack and the Beanstalk is a lavish, fun but frequently flat affair. Director David Janson livens
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Packed with breathtakingly bad puns and breathless but pitch-perfect singing, Peter Pan at the Harlow Playhouse is an ambitious and effective production.
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Poised between traditional panto and jukebox musical, this energetic interpretation of Beauty and the Beast is carried along on a blast of
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Feeling impressively fresh while ticking all the traditional boxes, writer and director Daniel Buckroyd’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a
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Owing more to Disney than the Brothers Grimm, writer and director Lou Stein’s Rapunzel is a pleasant fairytale with a tangled, overstuffed
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Based on Mary Norton’s charming children’s stories about a race of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a country house, The
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Moral quandaries and hidden motivations simmer at the heart of The Secondary Victim, a dense discussion of ethical dilemmas from playwright and
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Drenched in the glitter and sleaze of 1920s Hollywood, Claudio Macor’s tale of sex scandals and open secrets at a major studio
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Examining the life of a fascinating but often overlooked historical figure, Matilda the Empress is a tightly-plotted account of England’s first civil
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Shot through with elegance and icy restraint, this touring remount of Tom Kempinski’s stingingly insightful Duet for One feels every bit as
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