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Matthew Banks given two-week sentence for pretending to be ill so he could see Chicago musical in the West End A teenage juror, who interrupted a trial when he pretended to be ill so that he could go and see a London stage show, has been detained for 14 days, the Judicial Communications Office said on...
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Stage show based on 2004 film, which explores the inspiration behind the famous character, to debut in London next year The producers behind Oscar winning films such as The King's Speech, are turning their attention to London's West End with plans for their first stage musical. The Weinstein...
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Northern Ireland playwright who brought the Troubles to the English stage Were it not for the actors and the Irish, so they say, there would be no plays in England. Like George Farquhar, whose Love and a Bottle he adapted, the playwright Bill Morrison was both Northern Irish and an actor, and a director...
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Michael Frayn's play was slightly uncomfortable viewing, but it gets the chaos and comedy of making theatre, says stage manager Sharon Calcutt I giggled all the way through Michael Frayn's excellent comedy about a touring theatre company . It depicts actors and stage managers going through a...
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Contemporary dancer, choreographer, teacher and tireless advocate of independent artists Gill Clarke, who has died of cancer aged 56, was one of the foremost contemporary dancers of her generation. She was also a renowned teacher and a tireless advocate for the independent dance sector – the world of...
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Tricycle, London Marie Jones clearly feels that the political anger behind her hit play, first seen in Ireland in 1996, got somehow neglected when the show became a West End hit. So Indhu Rubasingham, director-designate of the Tricycle, has come up with a fine revival that puts the emphasis back on the...
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Hull Truck If you want to see an exhibition of mendacity, backstabbing and naked ambition in action, you really need look no further than your local primary school. Tim Firth 's study of infant power-politics is less a cute, end-of-term entertainment than a kindergarten version of the Godfather,...
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Abbey, Dublin "You are laughing at yourselves," the humiliated mayor tells the Abbey audience, as the corruption of his small town is exposed. In Roddy Doyle 's new adaptation of Nikolai Gogol 's political satire, the laughter seems very comfortable. Doyle retains the Russian names...
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Silk Street theatre, London The door to wonderland is edged with blue neon and constantly changes in size in this latest dance theatre piece from the outstanding children's company Theatre-Rites . It offers a child's-eye view of a world that's full of magic and mystery; objects suddenly take...
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Man who helped re-establish London theatre as home of provocative new drama will leave post in 2013 to go freelance The man who has presided over the Royal Court's most dazzling period for years is leaving. Dominic Cooke, whose productions of Enron and Jerusalem transferred from the Sloane Square...
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Junction, Cambridge Cannibalism is all the rage in family shows this year, and never more so than in New International Encounter's retelling of one of the Brothers Grimms' grimmer fairytales . This is a folksy affair, done with just the right touch of nastiness and warm-hearted playfulness; the...
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Roundhouse, London It can't be easy for an act to join the cult circus-cabaret floorshow La Soirée : the bar has been set pretty high. But vaulting high bars – or dangling from them, or balancing on them – is what these people are all about. I am happy to report that, as it returns for Christmas...
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'My breakthrough came at 35. I employed a man to get me on television; he did, and that changed my whole life' How did you discover that you had a talent for magic? When I was 11, I read a magic book and copied a trick out of that – one of those "think of a number" mathematical ones...
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Orange Tree, Richmond By a nice irony, the Orange Tree revives, in the season of goodwill, a suave Edwardian satire on the whole notion of meddling idealism. And even if St John Hankin's country-house comedy, seen briefly at the Royal Court in 1906 and rarely since, is not in the same league as Ibsen's...
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Theatre Royal, York Making his entrance for no apparent reason atop a green dinosaur, York's grand dame Berwick Kaler ominously announces: "This year, there have been changes to the format." It creates a stir of anxiety that, after 33 years of no-expense-spared entertainment, the Theatre...