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Nick Mohammed Is Mr Swallow: Show Pony review – magic meets deliriously funny reality

silverguide.site – Ted Lasso star’s return as his camp and bumptious northern know-it-all alter ego also makes room for more of the real Mohammed…
Nick Mohammed Is Mr Swallow: Show Pony review – magic meets deliriously funny reality
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Mother Courage and her Children review – wartime profiteering rarely sounded so good

silverguide.site – Ensemble ’84 generate an exhilarating racket in this gutsy rendition of Brecht’s play about the thirty years’ war…
Mother Courage and her Children review – wartime profiteering rarely sounded so good
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The Last Incel review – the hate, horror and comedy that lurk online

silverguide.site – Jamie Sykes’ queasily entertaining play dramatises the contemptible views found in ‘incel’ forums – but also elicits sympathy for its characters, whose loathing is directed inwards as well as out…
The Last Incel review – the hate, horror and comedy that lurk online
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Diagnosis review – mesmerising drama takes double standards to extremes

silverguide.site – A woman with cerebral palsy is interrogated in a hostile future environment in Athena Stevens’ powerful work about society’s unattainable expectations…
Diagnosis review – mesmerising drama takes double standards to extremes
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Beetlejuice the Musical review – Eddie Perfect is simply perfect in his nutty and wild hit

silverguide.site – Regent Theatre, MelbourneBringing his Broadway adaptation of Tim Burton’s film to Australia, Perfect is joyous in the lead role, bounding around the stage like a demented pinball…
Beetlejuice the Musical review – Eddie Perfect is simply perfect in his nutty and wild hit
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – life-affirming musical reckons with death

silverguide.site – Mark Addy plays the Bunyanesque everyman whose trip to the postbox becomes a spiritual journey set to glorious foot-stomping songs…
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry review – life-affirming musical reckons with death
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Charles Strouse, Tony award-winning composer of Annie, dies aged 96

silverguide.site – Over the course of an illustrious career, Strouse composed music for Broadway shows such as Bye Bye Birdie and Applause but was best known for Annie’s evergreen songs…
Charles Strouse, Tony award-winning composer of Annie, dies aged 96
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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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