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Keli review – a brass band player’s search for solidarity

silverguide.site – Martin Green’s play, set in a village still traumatised by the miners’ strike, follows a young musician under pressure from all sides…
Keli review – a brass band player’s search for solidarity
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The play that changed my life: Timberlake Wertenbaker on the joy of seeing four normal women on stage

silverguide.site – Pam Gems’ revolutionary 1976 play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi put ordinary, flawed, interesting women at its centre – a reversal of all the plays by men where women are ‘the problem’…
The play that changed my life: Timberlake Wertenbaker on the joy of seeing four normal women on stage
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown review – a gorgeous take on a flawed musical

silverguide.site – Delicious design, clever staging and a fabulous central performance elevate a flawed adaptation of Pedro Almodóvar’s camp farce…
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown review – a gorgeous take on a flawed musical
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Diana Edwardes obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Founder and director of the West Kent Youth Theatre in Tunbridge Wells…
Diana Edwardes obituary
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Letter: John Fox obituary

silverguide.site – Ben Haggarty writes: We lived in caravans on a former rubbish tip in Burnley…
Letter: John Fox obituary
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1536 review – three Tudor friends throw sharp light on Anne Boleyn’s execution

silverguide.site – Ava Pickett’s bold debut shows how a trio of ordinary women in rural Essex learn of the queen’s death, and speaks clearly to our own age…
1536 review – three Tudor friends throw sharp light on Anne Boleyn’s execution
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Insane Asylum Seekers review – likably droll telling of generational trauma

silverguide.site – Laith Elzubaidi’s autobiographical one-man play explores the lingering pain of his family’s flight from Iraq with a standup’s humour…
Insane Asylum Seekers review – likably droll telling of generational trauma
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‘Like making whisky’: how The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aged into a timeless musical

silverguide.site – F Scott Fitzgerald’s tale of a man who is born old and grows young has become a West End smash. The team behind the musical tell its success story in reverse – from Olivier awards glory back to a Cornish bowling alley…
‘Like making whisky’: how The Curious Case of Benjamin Button aged into a timeless musical
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Oedipus at Colonus/Electra review – a double shot of Sophocles in Sicily

silverguide.site – Two searing new productions, performed in a hallowed space by intense ensembles, bring strikingly fresh energy to the ancient dramas…
Oedipus at Colonus/Electra review – a double shot of Sophocles in Sicily
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The Comedy About Spies review – rapid fire gags in a delightfully silly show

silverguide.site – The sheer rate of jokes, from groanworthy to dynamite, may leave you crying helpless tears of laughter in this farce from the Mischief company…
The Comedy About Spies review – rapid fire gags in a delightfully silly show
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John Gale obituary

silverguide.site – Theatre producer of the longest running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, who was also a great talent spotter…
John Gale obituary
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‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice

silverguide.site – He is a transfixing screen presence – but he lives for the raw thrill of the stage. As he takes over the Venice theatre biennale, the star lets us know what to expect: cut-up plays and a Pinocchio unlike any other…
‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice
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House of Games review – Richard Bean hustles David Mamet’s movie tricksters

silverguide.site – It’s a little hard to buy the One Man, Two Guvnors playwright’s broadly comic take on the American’s thriller about con artists…
House of Games review – Richard Bean hustles David Mamet’s movie tricksters
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Cynthia Erivo to play Dracula and 22 supporting roles in West End transfer of Australian show

silverguide.site – Wicked star to play Bram Stoker’s bloodsucking fiend in a production from the creators of Olivier award-winning hit The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Cynthia Erivo to play Dracula and 22 supporting roles in West End transfer of Australian show
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Port Talbot Gotta Banksy review – street art Santa’s awkward gift to small town

silverguide.site – Play edited from 150 hours of interviews shows how working-class communities are always subject to the whims of global market forces – be those of steel or the art world…
Port Talbot Gotta Banksy review – street art Santa’s awkward gift to small town
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Overshare review – provocative tour inside a livestreamed breakdown

silverguide.site – Expanding her Edinburgh hit, Eleanor Hill replicates her Instagrammed mental health crisis and confronts the destructive compulsion to broadcast it all online…
Overshare review – provocative tour inside a livestreamed breakdown
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‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high-kicking cancan

silverguide.site – It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency – and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about the cancan…
‘A whirling mass of limbs and lingerie’: the salacious, riotous story of the high-kicking cancan
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Meow Meow review – kamikaze cabaret combines clownish comedy and crooning

silverguide.site – Whether singing or crawling cleavage-first over the shoulders of her crowd, the eccentric diva asks what an artist should do in such ominous times…
Meow Meow review – kamikaze cabaret combines clownish comedy and crooning
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Oona Doherty: Specky Clark review – distressed orphan out-dances raw reality

silverguide.site – With an amazing sense of pure movement, Doherty’s bold, distinctive work takes the story of her great-great-grandfather from the abattoir to beyond magic realism…
Oona Doherty: Specky Clark review – distressed orphan out-dances raw reality
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Gladys: A Musical Affair review – Berejiklian parody show is too flimsy to be funny

silverguide.site – This one-hour musical about the former NSW premier is a crowd-pleaser – if you’re happy to settle for jokes that are convenient rather than clever…
Gladys: A Musical Affair review – Berejiklian parody show is too flimsy to be funny
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