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The Normal Heart review – Larry Kramer’s devastating play about Aids continues to galvanise

www.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
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Tutu review – cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift

www.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
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Donbas review – a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion

www.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
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Sweet Mambo review – Pina Bausch’s funny valentine is the stuff of dreams

www.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
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Macbeth review – just an everyday couple crazed by poisonous power

www.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
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‘Utterly hilarious’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life

www.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
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The Monocle review – sultry celebration of Paris’s secret Sapphic society

www.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
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Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire

www.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
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Kristin Scott Thomas says male theatre critics fail to grasp plays about women

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

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

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

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

www.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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Philippe Gaulier had a huge impact on theatre – but his ‘embrace the ridiculous’ lesson is one for us all

www.silverguide.site – The master clown helped generations of performers be more alive in the moment – and not take themselves too seriously. His teachings were for life as well as the stage…
Philippe Gaulier had a huge impact on theatre – but his ‘embrace the ridiculous’ lesson is one for us all
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Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82

www.silverguide.site – Teacher who ran school outside Paris was a formative influence on generations of comedians and actors including Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson…
Philippe Gaulier, clown guru and mentor to theatre and comedy greats, dies aged 82
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Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn

www.silverguide.site – Our sitcom character Jim Hacker continues to cling on – as he takes to the West End stage, nothing has really changed…
Four decades after we wrote Yes Minister, politics is still reduced to the pleasure of power | Jonathan Lynn
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‘Binge theatre’: why Summer of the Seventeenth Doll continues to crackle with life 70 years on

www.silverguide.site – Ray Lawler’s drama became an international hit in the 50s, playing London, New York and eventually the silver screen. Now it’s being restaged as part of the ‘Doll trilogy’ in Melbourne – and it remains a classic…
‘Binge theatre’: why Summer of the Seventeenth Doll continues to crackle with life 70 years on
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War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia

www.silverguide.site – A visually arresting adaptation trades Martian menace for Enoch Powell-era paranoia – technically dazzling, politically pointed, yet also confusing…
War of the Worlds review – HG Wells recast as a fever dream of fear and xenophobia
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Troubles-rooted play Sapling wins Women’s prize for playwriting

www.silverguide.site – Judges, including Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, praise Georgina Duncan’s play as the kind ‘producers dream of and audiences yearn to watch’…
Troubles-rooted play Sapling wins Women’s prize for playwriting
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Liam Withnail: Big Strong Boy review – look back in laughter at misfit youth

www.silverguide.site – The standup’s tale of teenage travails, guilt and redemption borders on the sentimental but gets the balance right…
Liam Withnail: Big Strong Boy review – look back in laughter at misfit youth
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