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Hole! review – filthy musical fable enchants … and makes you blush

silverguide.site – Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper are vivid storytellers and fine musicians and foley artists…
Hole! review – filthy musical fable enchants … and makes you blush
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Here Comes J Edgar! A Musical Comedy review – show tunes, Mel Brooks zing and real human anguish

silverguide.site – Camp comedy from The Simpsons’ Harry Shearer and Seinfeld writer Tom Leopold explores the relationship between FBI boss Hoover and protege Clyde Tolson…
Here Comes J Edgar! A Musical Comedy review – show tunes, Mel Brooks zing and real human anguish
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For Dolores review – dependency and desire in portrait of obsessive friendship

silverguide.site – Eva O’Connor’s intense new play explores the lives of spiky Glaswegian Mo and naive Dubliner Réaltín through competing monologues, blunt humour and dance moves…
For Dolores review – dependency and desire in portrait of obsessive friendship
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The Smile of Her review – actor’s autobiographical show speeds through its resonant pains

silverguide.site – Christine Lahti tells the story of family life, misunderstandings between mothers and daughters, and her career – but its focus is blurred…
The Smile of Her review – actor’s autobiographical show speeds through its resonant pains
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‘I dreamt of a show where the audience becomes horny’: the Swedish puppet play starring bonking barbies

silverguide.site – Malmö Dockteater is adapting Jackie Collins’s debut novel about the swinging 60s using anatomically enhanced dolls. Puppets help you explore sex in a different way, they say…
‘I dreamt of a show where the audience becomes horny’: the Swedish puppet play starring bonking barbies
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I Can Die Too review – vibrant pop songs can’t bring actor’s tale to life

silverguide.site – Following its star through rehearsals and squabbles with her director, this is modelled on Cocteau’s La Voix Humaine but it’s not speaking very clearly…
I Can Die Too review – vibrant pop songs can’t bring actor’s tale to life
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The Secret Garden review – thoughtful adaptation takes root in the imagination

silverguide.site – The beloved children’s perennial is the basis for a celebration of craft, creativity and the beauty of the natural world in this charming puppetry production…
The Secret Garden review – thoughtful adaptation takes root in the imagination
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Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s demon barber is still a cut above

silverguide.site – With tremendous singing from Ramin Karimloo and Meow Meow, Joe Murphy’s superb staging of the story is full of dark gothic humour…
Sweeney Todd review – Sondheim’s demon barber is still a cut above
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Hit Machine review – slick music biz drama strikes too many false notes

silverguide.site – Josh Radnor is a music executive whose life is upended by his wayward brother, in a play about masculinity, creativity, appropriation and trauma…
Hit Machine review – slick music biz drama strikes too many false notes
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The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic

silverguide.site – Mary-Louise Parker gives a powerhouse performance in a three-part drama that cuts up Aeschylus’s chronology and adds shades of other plays…
The Oresteia review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic
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A cathartic play unpacks the pain of heartbreak with classic breakup songs: ‘As close to a universal experience as one gets’

silverguide.site – Heartbreak Hotel draws on the wisdom of Céline Dion, Prince and Elvis, as well as a rich repository of literature about grief and broken hearts…
A cathartic play unpacks the pain of heartbreak with classic breakup songs: ‘As close to a universal experience as one gets’
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The Jonathan Larson Project review – Rent composer’s lost songs find a glorious new home

silverguide.site – A lesser-known selection from the composer and lyricist’s archive is full of heart and humour, swinging between cabaret blues and pop bangers…
The Jonathan Larson Project review – Rent composer’s lost songs find a glorious new home
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‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire

silverguide.site – Love’s Labour’s Lost offers a heady mix of passion and death – which makes the Spanish art form a perfect match, says director Indiana Lown-Collins. Our writer joins the theatre’s flamenco bootcamp…
‘I just knew it would sound incredible!’: why the Globe is giving Shakespeare some flamenco fire
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Aziz Ansari review – a hugely gifted comic who makes funny look easy

silverguide.site – Shiny-suited and slick, the US standup fired off peppy and sometimes taboo-teasing gags about his cultural identity, married life and visits to a fertility clinic…
Aziz Ansari review – a hugely gifted comic who makes funny look easy
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The Market Deeping Model Railway Club review – the absurdities of British life in miniature

silverguide.site – The camaraderie and eccentricities of some model railway enthusiasts make for an endearing group portrait in William Ivory’s well-gauged comedy…
The Market Deeping Model Railway Club review – the absurdities of British life in miniature
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Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both

silverguide.site – Elegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note…
Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both
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Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel’s musical memoir feels every emotion

silverguide.site – A celebration of the cartoonist’s sexual awakening and queer identity as well as an investigation of darker family dynamics, this soulful show wears its heart on its sleeve…
Fun Home review – Alison Bechdel’s musical memoir feels every emotion
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Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political

silverguide.site – Maureen Beattie leads a modern-dress version, which focuses on family dynamics rather than the decline of Shakespeare’s mighty ruler…
Lear review – this matriarchal monarch’s tragedy is personal not political
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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

silverguide.site – The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036…
‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland
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Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic

silverguide.site – Headlong’s take on Karel Čapek’s 1920 tale of romance and robots is rife with timely debates about tech’s threat but at times the philosophical discussions drag on…
Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic
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