And privilege is indeed relative: Fen, who amusingly considers herself an “outsider”, can only keep the Hall going with an annual festival and film shoots. A bodice-ripping show called The…
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the National Theatre review: Lesley Manville alone is worth the price of admission
by News Roomby News RoomThis sumptuous production features killer turns from an imperiously coquettish Manville and an amusedly saturnine Aidan Turner
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Kinky Boots review: Johannes Radebe is the saving grace of this mediocre show
by News Roomby News RoomBut oh dear, what are we to make of Matt Cardle, winner of the X Factor back in 2010, in the underwritten role of reluctant factory owner Charlie Price? The…
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First look at Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe in Romeo And Juliet West End show
by News Roomby News RoomThe images show her kissing co-star Noah Jupe, who plays Romeo.
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Romeo & Juliet review: Sadie Sink is a magnificent Juliet in a powerful revival
by News Roomby News RoomRobert Icke’s production with Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe has clarity, speed and dazzling touches
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Jaja’s African Hair Braiding review: Vividly sketches in unseen lives
by News Roomby News RoomBioh’s play highlights the dignity of hardscrabble labour and addresses the stories, specifically the female ones, behind the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the American right. Indeed, the author spells this out…
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Poppy Gilbert and Stuart Thompson on their raw and remarkable new musical Flyby
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Teeth ‘N’ Smiles at Duke of York’s review: why is everybody shouting?
by News Roomby News RoomFifty-one years ago, this play must have seemed noisily thrilling and radical. Today, it looks coarse and lumpen
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John Proctor is the Villain at the Royal Court Theatre review: terrifically provocative
by News Roomby News RoomThis riposte to Arthur Miller’s The Crucible deftly examines the way women and girls are manipulated and gaslit
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A young talent, she combined state school education with scholarships, went to drama school and studied history at Oxford, where she began questioning the way the subject was taught while…