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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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The Shitheads review – primal urges rear up in a playful, prehistoric oddity

silverguide.site – Cave people with very different perspectives meet on an elk hunt in Jack Nicholls’ savage but sweet play about love and violence among early humans…
The Shitheads review – primal urges rear up in a playful, prehistoric oddity
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I’m Sorry, Prime Minister review – Hacker and Sir Humphrey return as baffled but charming old codgers

silverguide.site – Jonathan Lynn’s farewell to the beloved parliamentary sitcom casts Griff Rhys Jones as ex-PM Jim Hacker, making one last call on his wily consigliere…
I’m Sorry, Prime Minister review – Hacker and Sir Humphrey return as baffled but charming old codgers
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Here There Are Blueberries review – devastating anatomy of the truth behind Nazi snapshots

silverguide.site – Using photographs from an archive album of Auschwitz staff relaxing, this searing drama builds into an unforgettable inquiry…
Here There Are Blueberries review – devastating anatomy of the truth behind Nazi snapshots
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The Normal Heart review – Larry Kramer’s devastating play about Aids continues to galvanise

silverguide.site – The 1985 play’s first run took place off-Broadway in the middle of the Aids crisis. Much has changed – but Dean Bryant’s production speaks to a new era of protest and unrest…
The Normal Heart review – Larry Kramer’s devastating play about Aids continues to galvanise
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Tutu review – cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift

silverguide.site – The all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier side…
Tutu review – cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift
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Donbas review – a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion

silverguide.site – Olga Braga’s award-winning play captures the suffocating tensions of a household as war looms – finding flashes of tenderness amid the rising threat…
Donbas review – a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion
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Sweet Mambo review – Pina Bausch’s funny valentine is the stuff of dreams

silverguide.site – Tanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance…
Sweet Mambo review – Pina Bausch’s funny valentine is the stuff of dreams
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Macbeth review – just an everyday couple crazed by poisonous power

silverguide.site – In a stark modern staging, Mark Babych frames the tragedy as a story of ordinary lives spiralling into catastrophe…
Macbeth review – just an everyday couple crazed by poisonous power
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‘Utterly hilarious’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life

silverguide.site – The Complicité founder remembers his teacher’s wicked laughter, provocative demands and infinite generosity…
‘Utterly hilarious’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life
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The Monocle review – sultry celebration of Paris’s secret Sapphic society

silverguide.site – There are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian club…
The Monocle review – sultry celebration of Paris’s secret Sapphic society
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Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire

silverguide.site – Glen Tetley’s landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg’s atonal score, is a stark, strange and psychologically charged drama…
Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire
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Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women

silverguide.site – Actor’s comments came as she accepted a lifetime achievement award for women in the arts…
Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women
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