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Manfred Karge’s play about a woman acting as her dead husband was a cause célèbre in the 80s. It remains a bracing portrait of a divided person in a divided culture

It was Pierre Audi, the much-mourned founder of the Almeida, who way back in 1986 ...


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Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London
This production has a talented cast and looks the part, but the characterisation is thin and the songs are often cloying

Much like Emerald Fennell’s film of


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Bolton Octagon
Thirty years on, Ayub Khan Din’s play about dual-heritage life in the 70s is revived for a tour with an exceptional cast

Thirty years ago a play opened at Birmingham Rep that might have been expected to have limited appeal. East Is East, the story of a mixed-race family from the north of England surviving 1970s Britain as the fathe...


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For five decades, this enterprising venue – which is now shutting up shop – broadened the horizons of British theatre

London’s Gate theatre, not to be confused with its Dublin namesake, is no more...


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Soho theatre, London
A dance teacher for toddlers dreams of bigger things in Julia Grogan’s frantic one-woman show

The mind of a performer, hungry for her big break, is cracked open in Julia Grogan’s one-woman follow-up to her drama


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