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Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of 78 review

www.silverguide.site – This parody of courting rituals brings back its inaugural dancers 48 years on – ghosting their onstage choreography with footage of their younger selves, for a moving look at the passing of time…
Dance hall dynamite just keeps on giving: Pina Bausch/Meryl Tankard: Kontakthof, Echoes of 78 review
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The River review – slippery Jez Butterworth play remains a headscratcher

www.silverguide.site – Sydney Theatre CompanyMiranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades are all pleasant to watch but this decade-old play is sometimes obnoxiously mysterious…
The River review – slippery Jez Butterworth play remains a headscratcher
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball

www.silverguide.site – After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new…
Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball
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Letter: Jane Lapotaire obituary

www.silverguide.site – Gareth Jones writes: Jane was rushed to a major hospital and then transferred to the top neurological institute in Paris…
Letter: Jane Lapotaire obituary
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Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular

www.silverguide.site – The sleeper hit film has been transformed into a Disney stage show. But does it let exploitative huckster PT Barnum off the hook? We go behind the scenes of its launch run in Bristol…
Oh what a circus! The Greatest Showman hits the stage as a high-flying, hammer-juggling, banger-filled spectacular
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Becky Shaw review – Alden Ehrenreich shines in dysfunctional dating comedy

www.silverguide.site – Ehrenreich is electric alongside The Pitt’s Patrick Ball in this very 2008 send-up of the fallout from one disastrous blind date…
Becky Shaw review – Alden Ehrenreich shines in dysfunctional dating comedy
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Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity

www.silverguide.site – The sitcom star and Taskmaster stalwart is on commanding form as she embarks on Older Than Jesus, her first – and deeply daft – standup tour…
Aisling Bea review – glamourpuss meets accidental mum in a scatty show that revels in immaturity
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Victoria: A Queen Unbound review – darkness lurks beneath the myth of a model royal marriage

www.silverguide.site – Screenwriter Daisy Goodwin imagines the old queen revisiting her diaries and reveals a tale of control and coercion behind Albert’s dutiful devotion…
Victoria: A Queen Unbound review – darkness lurks beneath the myth of a model royal marriage
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Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’

www.silverguide.site – The California star may have earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Joan Baez in Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, but as she prepares for her stage debut in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, she says impostor syndrome is still a big problem…
Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’
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Josh Thomas: ‘If I could fight someone, I’d go big: Harry Styles. Or is Margaret Thatcher still alive?’

www.silverguide.site – The Australian comedian on being tackled by 80 children, his nemesis and swapping bodies with Abbie Chatfield…
Josh Thomas: ‘If I could fight someone, I’d go big: Harry Styles. Or is Margaret Thatcher still alive?’
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‘Luckily, I wasn’t decapitated’: 17 comedians’ stories from 40 years of Melbourne international comedy festival

www.silverguide.site – Wil Anderson, Lano and Woodley, Aaron Chen, Urzila Carlson and more share memories from 40 years at MICF, including fires, camels and weddings…
‘Luckily, I wasn’t decapitated’: 17 comedians’ stories from 40 years of Melbourne international comedy festival
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The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – the Alan Cumming creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory

www.silverguide.site – Cumming and Forbes Masson revive their cult 1994 TV sitcom with brilliant songs and a Beano-esque plot as budget Air Scotia is threatened with takeover…
The High Life: The Musical, Still Living It! review – the Alan Cumming creation flies into deliriously silly panto territory
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‘It was a warning from history – now it’s the bloody muse!’ Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire

www.silverguide.site – In these turbulent times, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui has never been more vital, and returns to the stage starring the Sherlock star and with music by the alt-rockers. But, they say, they don’t just want to preach to the choir…
‘It was a warning from history – now it’s the bloody muse!’ Mark Gatiss and Placebo on reviving Brecht’s brutal Hitler satire
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Desmond Barrit obituary

www.silverguide.site – Character actor of energetic comic brilliance, notably as Falstaff at the RSC and in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys…
Desmond Barrit obituary
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – a playful, punchy Shakespeare romcom made easy

www.silverguide.site – The Unicorn and RSC’s accessible adaptation is at its best in comic set pieces – even if the pared-down plot still feels cluttered…
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – a playful, punchy Shakespeare romcom made easy
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What I’m Here For review – high-pressure horror of a nurse’s shift from hell

www.silverguide.site – The life-and-death choices that a stressed-out nurse faces on a short-staffed weekend are taken to gothic heights in this intense, atmospheric play…
What I’m Here For review – high-pressure horror of a nurse’s shift from hell
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – love is a fight for power in this bold staging

www.silverguide.site – National theatre, LondonA queenly Lesley Manville steals the show in this dark, rageful tale of seduction as contact sport…
Les Liaisons Dangereuses review – love is a fight for power in this bold staging
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Private Lives review – Noël Coward’s queasy merry-go-round of desire and spite

www.silverguide.site – Sparring lovers play a capricious game in Blanche McIntyre’s revival – but the cut and thrust is kept witty, rather than curdling into danger…
Private Lives review – Noël Coward’s queasy merry-go-round of desire and spite
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Scout Boxall: God’s Favourite review – charming standup about one of the worst nights of their life

www.silverguide.site – Melbourne international comedy festivalThis funny, thoughtful show is a gentle nudge to think about history’s sidelined women and embrace the nerdiest parts of yourself…
Scout Boxall: God’s Favourite review – charming standup about one of the worst nights of their life
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Romeo and Juliet review – overbearing directorial stamp is saved by dazzling cast

www.silverguide.site – Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe’s pure chemistry perfectly encapsulates the urgent and uncompromising nature of first love…
Romeo and Juliet review – overbearing directorial stamp is saved by dazzling cast
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