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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

Man and Boy review – Rattigan’s murky reunion staged in silver-screen style

silverguide.site – A financier facing corruption charges is reunited with his son in this high-concept mishmash of screwball comedy and financial thriller…
Man and Boy review – Rattigan’s murky reunion staged in silver-screen style

Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion

silverguide.site – Jerome Kilty’s fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell…
Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion

Lark Rise to Candleford review – tender, evocative tribute to rural lives in transition

silverguide.site – This music-laced adaptation of Flora Thompson’s novels is a coming-of-age story that finds quiet beauty in a world on the brink of change…
Lark Rise to Candleford review – tender, evocative tribute to rural lives in transition

Children of the Night review – party like it’s 1997 in Yorkshire’s Vegas

silverguide.site – Through the eyes of two working-class teenagers, a legendary 90s Doncaster nightclub is brought back to life in Danielle Phillips’s sparky but quietly perceptive play…
Children of the Night review – party like it’s 1997 in Yorkshire’s Vegas
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