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Ritual review – eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced

silverguide.site – Get lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus’s Oresteia and you’ll witness a fight or a sacrifice – but there are long dull patches…
Ritual review – eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Malawian boy’s amazing famine-beating creation inspires a rousing musical

silverguide.site – After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba’s heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic songs and dancing…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Malawian boy’s amazing famine-beating creation inspires a rousing musical
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Road review – Johnny Vegas lands his punches in bitter riposte to Thatcher’s Britain

silverguide.site – Director Selina Cartmell delivers a giddily theatrical take on Jim Cartwright’s slice-of-life portrait…
Road review – Johnny Vegas lands his punches in bitter riposte to Thatcher’s Britain
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Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime review – guns and slaughter as ‘the devil’s son’ strives to know himself

silverguide.site – Allen, one half of the influential Pajama Men comedy duo, mines his personal trauma for a slightly undercooked show about his dramatic upbringing in New Mexico…
Shenoah Allen: Bloodlust Summertime review – guns and slaughter as ‘the devil’s son’ strives to know himself
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Art review – Richard Roxburgh comedy delivers on laughs but not much more

silverguide.site – Art feints at depth only to recoil from it, as if terrified a moment of genuine feeling might bore us…
Art review – Richard Roxburgh comedy delivers on laughs but not much more
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Fair Deal review – family ties are pushed to the limit in fizzing black comedy

silverguide.site – The sale of the parental home triggers a generational showdown in Una McKevitt’s droll play about money, inheritance and caring for ageing relatives…
Fair Deal review – family ties are pushed to the limit in fizzing black comedy
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‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel

silverguide.site – Novelist George RR Martin says RSC is ‘obvious choice’ to put on new play The Mad King, which will open after spring…
‘Summer is coming!’: Royal Shakespeare Company to stage epic Game of Thrones prequel
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The Battle review – Britpop bickering and 90s nostalgia in Blur v Oasis comedy

silverguide.site – The bands that came to symbolise a divided nation compete to top the charts in John Niven’s jokey play but it is woefully short on drama…
The Battle review – Britpop bickering and 90s nostalgia in Blur v Oasis comedy
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‘OK, talk, but don’t make any sound!’: Philippe Gaulier’s illustrious students on his clowning glory

silverguide.site – Comedians, theatre-makers and actors including Rachel Weisz, Sally Phillips and Simon Munnery recall the late teacher’s alarming lessons…
‘OK, talk, but don’t make any sound!’: Philippe Gaulier’s illustrious students on his clowning glory
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‘Let’s go out in a beautiful fashion’: Australian theatre company says goodbye with one last wondrous show

silverguide.site – After losing funding, the acclaimed Slingsby Theatre Company is staging its final show: A Concise Compendium of Wonder, a fairytale triptych in a purpose-built, travelling theatre…
‘Let’s go out in a beautiful fashion’: Australian theatre company says goodbye with one last wondrous show
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Deep Azure review – musical marvels in Chadwick Boseman’s hip-hop tragedy

silverguide.site – The Black Panther actor’s melding of social commentary and Shakespearean themes is sometimes opaque yet undeniably poetic…
Deep Azure review – musical marvels in Chadwick Boseman’s hip-hop tragedy
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Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup

silverguide.site – The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker’s novel by Kip Williams. Here’s a bite-sized look at the critics’ verdicts…
Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup
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Dracula review – Cynthia Erivo’s magnificent modern bloodsucker is defanged in one-woman show

silverguide.site – Deploying accents and wigs, the Wicked star takes on all Bram Stoker’s characters, but the atmosphere lacks the fever or diabolicism required…
Dracula review – Cynthia Erivo’s magnificent modern bloodsucker is defanged in one-woman show
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After Miss Julie review – sex takes second place to snarling class warfare

silverguide.site – Patrick Marber updates Strindberg’s story to a country house in 1945, where upstairs-downstairs disaffection drives the drama…
After Miss Julie review – sex takes second place to snarling class warfare
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Josh Sharp: ta-da! review – 2,000 slides and one ‘weenie massage’ in a show that’s big on laughs

silverguide.site – The former child magician from New York combines PowerPoint and personal trauma in an off-Broadway import that packs a considerable punch…
Josh Sharp: ta-da! review – 2,000 slides and one ‘weenie massage’ in a show that’s big on laughs
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One Day has been a bestselling novel, a forgettable film, a beloved TV series – now can it be a musical?

silverguide.site – David Nicholls’s romantic saga is heading to stage, in the very city where its characters first felt the sparks fly. But how to cram 20 years of romance into two tune-filled hours? By focusing on the little moments, say its creators…
One Day has been a bestselling novel, a forgettable film, a beloved TV series – now can it be a musical?
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Dreamscape review – dazzling hip-hop drama reclaims vital spirit of teenager slain by police

silverguide.site – Inspired by the 1998 shooting of Tyisha Miller, the lost hopes and memories of a young Black woman – played beautifully by Jada Evelyn Ramsey – are explored through words, dance and beatboxing…
Dreamscape review – dazzling hip-hop drama reclaims vital spirit of teenager slain by police
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Sweetmeats review – the ripe fruits of late love

silverguide.site – Karim Khan’s tender portrait of South Asians finding companionship through shared grief and illness is played with crackling chemistry by Shobu Kapoor and Rehan Sheikh…
Sweetmeats review – the ripe fruits of late love
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Peta calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show rolls into Grimsby

silverguide.site – Auditorium to remove bacon and sausages from cafe during stage run after request from campaign group…
Peta calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show rolls into Grimsby
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Shadowlands review – Hugh Bonneville charms in a weepie that’s as creaky as an old library

silverguide.site – William Nicholson’s take on CS Lewis’s marriage to an American divorcee should have you in bits but it fails to feel as eviscerating as it should…
Shadowlands review – Hugh Bonneville charms in a weepie that’s as creaky as an old library
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