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Playwrights’ ‘thrilling’ debuts share the Susan Smith Blackburn prize

silverguide.site – Hannah Doran’s The Meat Kings! (Inc) of Brooklyn Heights and Ro Reddick’s Cold War Choir Practice declared joint winners of award for female, transgender and non-binary writers…
Playwrights’ ‘thrilling’ debuts share the Susan Smith Blackburn prize
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Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act

silverguide.site – Even the safety curtain has a morbid air in Dominic Hill’s post-apocalyptic staging of Beckett’s classic…
Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act
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Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize

silverguide.site – Theatre says it will harness art ‘to inspire societal shifts towards restorative relationship with nature’…
Shakespeare’s Globe launches environmental playwright prize
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‘It felt feral!’ The dance dynamo behind The Testament of Ann Lee’s sweat-soaked rituals

silverguide.site – Spurred on by a vision of the Shakers’ founding leader, Celia Rowlson-Hall masterminded the whirl of movement in Mona Fastvold’s fever dream of a film…
‘It felt feral!’ The dance dynamo behind The Testament of Ann Lee’s sweat-soaked rituals
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‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage

silverguide.site – Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stage…
‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage
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Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style

silverguide.site – Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs…
Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style
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Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97

silverguide.site – The Broadway actor’s nine-decade career included beloved screen roles and coaching Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda…
Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97
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Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter

silverguide.site – The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family…
Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter
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Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway

silverguide.site – An anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-hander…
Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway
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Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand

silverguide.site – In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and the stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than for Timothée Chalamet’s table-tennis hotshot …
Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand
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Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama

silverguide.site – Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life…
Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama
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Matz Skoog obituary

silverguide.site – Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers…
Matz Skoog obituary
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Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

silverguide.site – Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare…
Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition
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Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’

silverguide.site – The comedian on non-verbal heckles, one-legged dancing before gigs and his new show about benches…
Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’
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Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show

silverguide.site – Written by Mem Fox with illustrations by Judy Horacek, Green Sheep was recently voted third-best Australian picture book of all time by Guardian readers…
Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show
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The Hound of the Baskervilles review – boutique Sherlock gets laughs but fails to solve the real mystery

silverguide.site – The cast in this four-person capsule telling of the Conan Doyle thriller bring vigour and charm but it’s hard to discern any point to the exercise…
The Hound of the Baskervilles review – boutique Sherlock gets laughs but fails to solve the real mystery
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‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone

silverguide.site – Revisiting the Troubles in 1990s Belfast, Sapling is the result of intensive research in the city. And winning the Women’s prize, says Duncan, ‘is the maddest thing that’s ever happened to me’…
‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone
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Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw

silverguide.site – Newcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace…
Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw
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Pied Piper review – beatbox rewrite of the rat-infested fairytale

silverguide.site – Conrad Murray’s family musical is serious about its commitment to community – but completely lacks dramatic thrust…
Pied Piper review – beatbox rewrite of the rat-infested fairytale
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Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step

silverguide.site – Bamford draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression and never stops poking fun at her own quirks and compulsions…
Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step
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