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Takeaway review – enormously fun family drama is full of heart

silverguide.site – Nathan Powell sets out his stall with a crowd-pleasing play about intergenerational tensions in a Caribbean cafe…
Takeaway review – enormously fun family drama is full of heart
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Studio3 review – triple whammy of comedy is ferociously funny

silverguide.site – A quick-witted trio of actors star in this compendium of plays, in roles ranging from an Ulster unionist Homer Simpson to a terrified pandemic prophet…
Studio3 review – triple whammy of comedy is ferociously funny
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Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in Conor McPherson’s The Weir

silverguide.site – Revival of the ‘profoundly moving’ Irish pub drama will open at the Olympia theatre in Dublin before arriving in London this autumn…
Brendan Gleeson to make West End debut in Conor McPherson’s The Weir
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The best theatre to stream this month: how Stranger Things shook the stage

silverguide.site – Behind-the-scenes look at the TV juggernaut’s transformation into a theatrical spectacular, interactive acrobatics with Cirque du Soleil and a spellbinding tribute to Kneehigh are among this month’s highlights…
The best theatre to stream this month: how Stranger Things shook the stage
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Search Party’s John Early: ‘You can only take a narcissistic monster for so long – it grates after 10 years’

silverguide.site – Dropping the droll, self-obsessed character from his early standup shows, the comic and TV star is swapping millennial irony for the sincerity of song…
Search Party’s John Early: ‘You can only take a narcissistic monster for so long – it grates after 10 years’
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Titus Andronicus review – Simon Russell Beale is sublime amid epic horrors

silverguide.site – Echoes of Gaza and Guantanamo ripple through the violence of Shakespeare’s paradoxically poetic play, immaculately staged by the RSC…
Titus Andronicus review – Simon Russell Beale is sublime amid epic horrors
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In C review – Sasha Waltz matches Terry Riley’s 1964 classic with a minimalist community

silverguide.site – The choreographer pairs the semi-improvised score with similarly loose structures that reflect on collective action and identity…
In C review – Sasha Waltz matches Terry Riley’s 1964 classic with a minimalist community
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Restless Natives: The Musical review – rambling remake sings different tune to cult 80s movie

silverguide.site – Two working-class lads become modern-day highwaymen in this adaptation of the Scottish film but the plentiful songs slow down the story…
Restless Natives: The Musical review – rambling remake sings different tune to cult 80s movie
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My Master Builder review – Ewan McGregor’s cheating starchitect is torn down

silverguide.site – Ibsen is moved to the Hamptons in Lila Raicek’s play, co-starring Kate Fleetwood and Elizabeth Debicki, about the destruction wreaked by adultery…
My Master Builder review – Ewan McGregor’s cheating starchitect is torn down
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Paul Mescal, Stormzy and the return of rep – National Theatre boss reveals her risky debut season

silverguide.site – With star names, a Hamlet in shades, orgiastic murder and a miners’ strike musical, Indhu Rubasingham promises something for all. But can she attract newcomers while keeping diehards happy? And is she having sleepless nights?…
Paul Mescal, Stormzy and the return of rep – National Theatre boss reveals her risky debut season
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Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis revisited in ‘punchy’ new comedy

silverguide.site – John Niven’s debut play explores rivalry between the two British bands who vied for the No 1 spot in the charts in 1995…
Britpop battle between Blur and Oasis revisited in ‘punchy’ new comedy
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Dealer’s Choice review – Hammed Animashaun is the ace in a busted flush

silverguide.site – Patrick Marber’s debut play about a group of poker players brims with banter, but this pallid 30th-anniversary revival exposes its weaknesses…
Dealer’s Choice review – Hammed Animashaun is the ace in a busted flush
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‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie

silverguide.site – The US playwright and anglophile behind much-revived comedies has a flair for crime and is following a crowd-pleasing Murder on the Orient Express with Death on the Nile…
‘You have to be taken inside Poirot’s brain’: Ken Ludwig on the secret to adapting Agatha Christie
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‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch

silverguide.site – Booker-nominated writer Deborah Levy is thrilling audiences with her play about a psychoanalyst dealing with a very unusual patient, seized with anxiety about modern life. She explains how it came about…
‘A mix of vaudeville and David Lynch’: the hit play about a giant rabbit on a psychoanalyst’s couch
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Dynamo, TV talent, video tutorials: magic is back with new tricks

silverguide.site – Once upon a time revealing a magician’s secrets could get you blacklisted, now anyone can learn an illusion or two…
Dynamo, TV talent, video tutorials: magic is back with new tricks
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Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm

silverguide.site – Jonathan Groff uses his considerable charisma to embody the late singer with pizzazz in a rousing yet incomplete Broadway show…
Just in Time review – Bobby Darin musical is light on detail but big on charm
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Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre

silverguide.site – Oldman gives an emotional encounter with his past selves as he single-handedly directs, set-designs and performs Samuel Beckett’s existential monologue…
Krapp’s Last Tape review – Gary Oldman’s arresting one-man Beckett is a startling piece of theatre
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Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet

silverguide.site – Oakland Ballet Company takes on a harrowing chapter of US-Chinese history with a piece about Angel Island, ‘the Ellis Island of the west’…
Detained Chinese immigrants carved their anguish into a wall a century ago. Those words inspired a ballet
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The Brightening Air review – shades of Vanya as a Sligo family squabble, tease and wrestle

silverguide.site – Terrific performances from Chris O’Dowd and Rosie Sheehy lead a populous family drama hinging on a broken-down country farmhouse…
The Brightening Air review – shades of Vanya as a Sligo family squabble, tease and wrestle
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‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre

silverguide.site – The central London institution champions new talent, amplifies LGBTQ+ voices and always takes risks. With a new outpost opening in Walthamstow, artists discuss how the West End venue is not just a place – it’s a philosophy…
‘It’s Fleabag’s home – the audience is unshockable’: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and more on 25 years of Soho theatre
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