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‘It felt feral!’ The dance dynamo behind The Testament of Ann Lee’s sweat-soaked rituals

www.silverguide.site – Spurred on by a vision of the Shakers’ founding leader, Celia Rowlson-Hall masterminded the whirl of movement in Mona Fastvold’s fever dream of a film…
‘It felt feral!’ The dance dynamo behind The Testament of Ann Lee’s sweat-soaked rituals

‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage

www.silverguide.site – Two Thatcher-years episodes of Peter Flannery’s award-winning TV series to be adapted for Newcastle stage…
‘The world is still as bent and corrupt’: Our Friends in the North returns to the stage

Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style

www.silverguide.site – Marital uncoupling may not be the social taboo it was in the 1920s, but this sumptuous revival delivers timeless pathos with the witty barbs…
Easy Virtue review – Trevor Nunn brings back Noël Coward’s divorce dramedy in high style

Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97

www.silverguide.site – The Broadway actor’s nine-decade career included beloved screen roles and coaching Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda…
Sondra Lee, Broadway star of Hello, Dolly! and Peter Pan, dies aged 97

Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter

www.silverguide.site – The 28 Years Later star joins the impressive Anastasia Hille in Anna Ziegler’s two-hander about grief and family…
Evening All Afternoon review – Erin Kellyman makes blazing stage debut as spiky stepdaughter

Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway

www.silverguide.site – An anecdote about a trip to find Paul McCartney’s Scottish retreat turns into a sweet-natured two-hander…
Someone’s Knockin’ at the Door review – in search of Macca’s Mull of Kintyre hideaway

Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand

www.silverguide.site – In Josh Safdie’s film, the worlds of sport and the stage are aligned – with the stakes higher for Gwyneth Paltrow’s former screen star, now on Broadway, than for Timothée Chalamet’s table-tennis hotshot …
Marty Supreme’s ping-pong thrills grip but the theatre plot really smashes it | Chris Wiegand

Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama

www.silverguide.site – Elizabeth Dulau is terrific in Alexi Kaye Campbell’s new play as the young woman set to become a daring pioneer in fiction and real life…
Bird Grove review – George Eliot’s true story embellished in a tender drama

Matz Skoog obituary

www.silverguide.site – Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers…
Matz Skoog obituary

Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

www.silverguide.site – Exclusive: Canon now includes domestic tragedy Arden of Faversham, which is attributed solely to Kyd and ‘not at all’ to Shakespeare…
Number of plays attributed to 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd double in new edition

Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’

www.silverguide.site – The comedian on non-verbal heckles, one-legged dancing before gigs and his new show about benches…
Mike Wozniak: ‘An RAF officer didn’t like my sketch about the Queen Mum so he set off the fire alarm’

Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show

www.silverguide.site – Written by Mem Fox with illustrations by Judy Horacek, Green Sheep was recently voted third-best Australian picture book of all time by Guardian readers…
Where Is the Green Sheep? The 190-word picture book that sold millions – and inspired a whole live show

The Hound of the Baskervilles review – boutique Sherlock gets laughs but fails to solve the real mystery

www.silverguide.site – The cast in this four-person capsule telling of the Conan Doyle thriller bring vigour and charm but it’s hard to discern any point to the exercise…
The Hound of the Baskervilles review – boutique Sherlock gets laughs but fails to solve the real mystery

‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone

www.silverguide.site – Revisiting the Troubles in 1990s Belfast, Sapling is the result of intensive research in the city. And winning the Women’s prize, says Duncan, ‘is the maddest thing that’s ever happened to me’…
‘I paid people with pints and chips’: Georgina Duncan on the prize-winning play she tapped out on her phone

Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw

www.silverguide.site – Newcomer Mandipa Kabanda plays the Maid of Orleans from obscure teenager to army-commanding conqueror, tearing through dialogue with rare pace…
Saint Joan review – urgency and drive in Stewart Laing’s modernist adaptation of George Bernard Shaw

Pied Piper review – beatbox rewrite of the rat-infested fairytale

www.silverguide.site – Conrad Murray’s family musical is serious about its commitment to community – but completely lacks dramatic thrust…
Pied Piper review – beatbox rewrite of the rat-infested fairytale

Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step

www.silverguide.site – Bamford draws us in with bursts of manic physical expression and never stops poking fun at her own quirks and compulsions…
Maria Bamford review – an unflinching comedian in complete command of every joke and every step

Ritual review – eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced

www.silverguide.site – Get lucky with your arrival time in this expansion of Aeschylus’s Oresteia and you’ll witness a fight or a sacrifice – but there are long dull patches…
Ritual review – eight-hour immersive performance is ambitious but under-resourced

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Malawian boy’s amazing famine-beating creation inspires a rousing musical

www.silverguide.site – After a book, a film and a Ted Talk, William Kamkwamba’s heroically inventive response to floods, drought and starvation is now delivered with energetic songs and dancing…
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind review – Malawian boy’s amazing famine-beating creation inspires a rousing musical

Road review – Johnny Vegas lands his punches in bitter riposte to Thatcher’s Britain

www.silverguide.site – Director Selina Cartmell delivers a giddily theatrical take on Jim Cartwright’s slice-of-life portrait…
Road review – Johnny Vegas lands his punches in bitter riposte to Thatcher’s Britain
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