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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) review – this brevity is the soul of wit

silverguide.site – The Reduced Shakespeare Company returns with a frantic mix of pratfalls, audience participation and lightning-flash characterisations…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) review – this brevity is the soul of wit

John Proctor Is the Villain review – Arthur Miller’s classic sparks a #MeToo moment

silverguide.site – A class on The Crucible unearths troubling parallels for a group of teen girls in Kimberly Belflower’s play set in the wake of the Weinstein scandal…
John Proctor Is the Villain review – Arthur Miller’s classic sparks a #MeToo moment

From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

silverguide.site – After years of skits and Shakespeare, the Black Country performer has found his biggest audience yet on Saturday Night Live UK. Phil Wang and others hail his ‘pure comedic instinct’…
From Hamlet at the Globe to Keir Starmer on SNL UK: the anarchic rise of George Fouracres

My Mix(ed-Up) Tape review – fury on the dancefloor at fiery Welsh wedding

silverguide.site – A reluctant return to the valleys brings a reckoning with a violent past and problematic present in Katie Payne’s vivid and raw monologue…
My Mix(ed-Up) Tape review – fury on the dancefloor at fiery Welsh wedding

The Last Five Years review – Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt make time stand still

silverguide.site – The musical-theatre megastars fall in and out of love, in opposing timelines, in a stirring production of Jason Robert Brown’s musical…
The Last Five Years review – Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt make time stand still

Brendan Gleeson wins best actor as Critics’ Circle theatre awards toasts The Weir

silverguide.site – Other winners include Inter Alia’s Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance…
Brendan Gleeson wins best actor as Critics’ Circle theatre awards toasts The Weir

A Mirrored Monet review – painter reflects on his past in a musical with heart and humour

silverguide.site – Carmel Owen’s ambitious musical follows the impressionist’s regrets back to his early adventures in art and his first marriage…
A Mirrored Monet review – painter reflects on his past in a musical with heart and humour

Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together

silverguide.site – Championed by a former chief medical officer, Lifeline is both a musical following Alexander Fleming’s discovery of the first antibiotic and a warning about the threat of superbugs in the present day…
Resistance movement: how a play about penicillin brought the arts, science and politics together

Teeth ’n’ Smiles review – Self Esteem makes a mesmeric rock star but the drama doesn’t dazzle

silverguide.site – Fifty years since David Hare’s play was first staged, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is inspired casting as a singer who refuses to go out without a bang…
Teeth ’n’ Smiles review – Self Esteem makes a mesmeric rock star but the drama doesn’t dazzle

Mark Simmons: ‘A lot of brilliant comedy shows tackle world issues – that’s not what this is!’

silverguide.site – The comedian on learning from Stewart Lee, forging gags from chats with friends and his niche joke about Magic FM…
Mark Simmons: ‘A lot of brilliant comedy shows tackle world issues – that’s not what this is!’

And who’s playing Madeline? Lily Allen’s West End Girl could make sensational theatre

silverguide.site – Intimate monologue or performance art? The singer’s recent gigs give a tantalising idea of what a stage adaptation of her album might look like…
And who’s playing Madeline? Lily Allen’s West End Girl could make sensational theatre

Henry V review – once more unto the breach at the RSC, as Alfred Enoch leads the charge

silverguide.site – Co-artistic director Tamara Harvey stages a well-acted production that never hits as hard as it should…
Henry V review – once more unto the breach at the RSC, as Alfred Enoch leads the charge

‘It won’t be pretty!’ French and Saunders to play the Ugly Sisters in Palladium panto

silverguide.site – Comedy duo will take the stage together in the West End for the first time in 17 years in Cinderella alongside Julian Clary…
‘It won’t be pretty!’ French and Saunders to play the Ugly Sisters in Palladium panto

‘It’s got real sass!’ Irvine Welsh chooses new life for Trainspotting as a stage musical

silverguide.site – Production based on 1993 novel opens at Theatre Royal Haymarket in London in July, with original songs co-written by the author…
‘It’s got real sass!’ Irvine Welsh chooses new life for Trainspotting as a stage musical

Michelle De Swarte: The Afters review – blazing gags from a comic who says what she sees

silverguide.site – The fantastically confident standup is a blast from the start with her takes on menopause, parenting and her upbringing…
Michelle De Swarte: The Afters review – blazing gags from a comic who says what she sees

Vincent in Brixon review – a radiant portrait of the artist as a young romantic

silverguide.site – Van Gogh is a restless soul who finds kinship – and possibly more – with his London landlady in this tender and full-hearted drama…
Vincent in Brixon review – a radiant portrait of the artist as a young romantic

Slippery review – lust and longing are in the air, long after the party is over

silverguide.site – A couple of former hedonists are reunited years later in Louis Emmitt-Stern’s quick-witted dissection of bereavement and the queer dating scene…
Slippery review – lust and longing are in the air, long after the party is over

Under Milk Wood review – dark fairytales swirl around Dylan Thomas’s evergreen village

silverguide.site – Director Kate Wasserberg emphasises the fantasy and supernatural elements of the poet’s ‘play for voices’ in an entertaining and inclusive production…
Under Milk Wood review – dark fairytales swirl around Dylan Thomas’s evergreen village

English National Ballet: Body & Soul review – from an army of AI bots to waves of pure human emotion

silverguide.site – Kameron N Saunders’s ambitious sci-fi-coded fable is paired with a showcase of Crystal Pite’s mastery in contrasting order with human messiness…
English National Ballet: Body & Soul review – from an army of AI bots to waves of pure human emotion

Small Island review – Windrush epic speaks to our era with startling clarity

silverguide.site – Featuring stellar performances across the cast, Matthew Xia’s production breathes new life into Andrea Levy’s sprawling family saga…
Small Island review – Windrush epic speaks to our era with startling clarity
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