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Four Walls and a Roof review – fascinating tale of Brecht, the red scare and today’s émigrés

silverguide.site – Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie explore the playwright’s life, and their journey from Beirut to Berlin, in an absorbing show at the Edinburgh international festival…
Four Walls and a Roof review – fascinating tale of Brecht, the red scare and today’s émigrés
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Angels in America review – Tony Kushner’s five-hour fever dream predicts and reflects the US at 250

silverguide.site – People, ideas and scenes wash over each other in Ivo van Hove’s masterly staging for Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, performed here in Dutch…
Angels in America review – Tony Kushner’s five-hour fever dream predicts and reflects the US at 250
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Abby Govindan: Pushing 30 review – playful comic makes the case for marriage as a side quest

silverguide.site – Govindan’s confident debut takes aim at patriarchal stereotypes with pranks, PowerPoint and easygoing storytelling…
Abby Govindan: Pushing 30 review – playful comic makes the case for marriage as a side quest
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Jonno: Here Comes Mr Funny review – Sheeps comic leaves flock for revelatory solo

silverguide.site – The Saturday Night Live UK writer, who is one-third of the sketch troupe Sheeps, balances sincerity and shtick in a show with big laughs…
Jonno: Here Comes Mr Funny review – Sheeps comic leaves flock for revelatory solo
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Not for Glory review – folk dance and bagpipes, but not as we know them

silverguide.site – Jack Anderson and Charlotte Mclean began as champions of classic Irish and Highland steps. Here, with piper Malin Lewis, they give them a new form…
Not for Glory review – folk dance and bagpipes, but not as we know them
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The Last Drop review – everything is rotten in this dark domestic comedy

silverguide.site – Dante Passarelli’s play, part of the Edinburgh fringe’s São Paulo Showcase, is an atmospheric hour borrowing themes from Hamlet…
The Last Drop review – everything is rotten in this dark domestic comedy
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The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre

silverguide.site – In Cora Bissett’s highly enjoyable and accessible production, a deaf man reintroduces a busker to the joy of music…
The Singer review – come on feel the noise with KT Tunstall’s glowing gig theatre
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Endgame review – Beckett’s lonely clowns raise an extra laugh

silverguide.site – Flabbergast Theatre’s production of Samuel Beckett’s desolate play leans into slapstick – and loses some of the searing threat…
Endgame review – Beckett’s lonely clowns raise an extra laugh
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Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder review – killer riffs slay toxic music industry

silverguide.site – This is a fun and feverish journey, with well-crafted comedy and screaming guitar, through the star’s career so far…
Charlene Kaye: Diversity Shredder review – killer riffs slay toxic music industry
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Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity review – SNL UK writer woos the room with summer romance

silverguide.site – A fringe fling is the backbone for a mischievous set with deft jokes and a fresh perspective but some of this material needs another draft…
Ayo Adenekan: Homeland Insecurity review – SNL UK writer woos the room with summer romance
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Good With Faces review – mesmerising power struggle will have you sitting uncomfortably

silverguide.site – Every comment sparks suspicion in Oisín Kearney’s bold and unnerving play about a meeting between a mother and a social worker…
Good With Faces review – mesmerising power struggle will have you sitting uncomfortably
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Flamenc Oh!! review – frills, flirting and fierce footwork in breezy Spanish comedy

silverguide.site – Can you dance flamenco to Eye of the Tiger? Of course, says the company Yllana, in a flamboyant celebration of breaking down barriers…
Flamenc Oh!! review – frills, flirting and fierce footwork in breezy Spanish comedy
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The Greatest Showman musical to come alive on the West End stage in 2027

silverguide.site – Disney production ran in Bristol earlier this year and its stars Oliver Tompsett and Samantha Barks will resume their roles at Theatre Royal Drury Lane…
The Greatest Showman musical to come alive on the West End stage in 2027
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Break of Day review – Kat Stewart is superb in this deeply moving portrait of Australia’s working class

silverguide.site – Malthouse Theatre, MelbourneSet in an unnamed packing warehouse in a regional town, this play could easily have been patronising socioeconomic cosplay – but it is heartfelt and honest…
Break of Day review – Kat Stewart is superb in this deeply moving portrait of Australia’s working class
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Boys Don’t Dance review – jump back to the 80s to celebrate the power of pop

silverguide.site – A sunny mashup of music accompanies choreographer Marc Brew’s feelgood coming-of-age story…
Boys Don’t Dance review – jump back to the 80s to celebrate the power of pop
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Kristen Schaal: The Legend of Crystal Shell review – flighty Conchords comic is still kooking on gas

silverguide.site – As a half-horse half-woman who dreams of being a unicorn and performing Swan Lake, Schaal sheds little light but has plenty of sparkle…
Kristen Schaal: The Legend of Crystal Shell review – flighty Conchords comic is still kooking on gas
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Life in the theatre is most revealing | Letters

silverguide.site – Letter: Cathy Scott-Willars responds to an article about the secret lives of theatre workers…
Life in the theatre is most revealing | Letters
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A critical mauling: Brian Logan on comedy critics being portrayed as horrible snobs

silverguide.site – Two Edinburgh fringe shows feature savage send-ups of reviewers. Is this petty revenge or do they have a case? Our writer finds one ‘a hoot’ – and thinks the other let him off lightly…
A critical mauling: Brian Logan on comedy critics being portrayed as horrible snobs
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‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage

silverguide.site – A play based on the writer’s dreamlike novel Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is touring the world, riding a wave of interest in Japanese culture. Its creators talk about how they adapted the famously cryptic tale…
‘Murakami saw his book come alive!’: the Japanese company bringing the author’s science fiction masterpiece to the stage
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Midsummer! review – Suri Noelle sparkles in a frisky Dream at the Edinburgh fringe

silverguide.site – A lusty adaptation by Avenue Q’s co-creator is performed with verve by Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter and her fellow students…
Midsummer! review – Suri Noelle sparkles in a frisky Dream at the Edinburgh fringe
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