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Mamma Mia! is Shakespeare’s Tempest in campy musical disguise

Mamma Mia!, the 1999 jukebox musical built around the songs of the pop group ABBA, became a huge hit in the theatre internationally and later a commercially successful feature film. It has inspired a host of spinoffs including a prequel film, an immersive dining experience and fan fiction.

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Dame Harriet Walter to star in all-female production of Julius Caesar for RSC

The play will be part of a new season of shows, which includes an all-male production of As You Like It starring Jonathan Groff.

Evening Standard

The Testament of Ann Lee – a gorgeous celebration of transcendence through joy and religious experience

Mona Fastvold’s film about Ann Lee – the founder of the Shaker religious movement – is raw, intense and deeply physical. If you were to consult the leading critics of Christianity in film they would probably tell you that the best films in this genre are not like The Testament…

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Love The Traitors and Only Murders in the Building? Visit The Mousetrap, says bold new director of West End perennial

Ola Ince, who has refreshed Agatha Christie’s record-breaking mystery, suggests ‘we all fancy ourselves as detectives’

The Guardian - UK

Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘People were following a narrative that had been created to explain me’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: ‘Secrets & Lies’ made her the first Black British woman to be nominated for an Oscar. Now, nearly 30 years and 160 episodes of the ‘factory-like’ US cop drama ‘Without a Trace’ later, she has reunited with Mike Leigh for the blistering ‘Hard Truths’ – it’s earned…

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Harriet Walter never felt like a 'typical woman'

Harriet Walter has never felt like a "typical woman" and believes she would be "dressing a a boy" if she was a teenager now.

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Grenfell: in the words of survivors – new play is an angry demand for accountability

The National Theatre’s new play, Grenfell: in the words of survivors, written by Gillian Slovo and directed by Phyllida Lloyd and Anthony Simpson-Pike, aims to offer a voice to survivors of the fire.

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Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors review – a masterpiece of forensic fury

Piling up devastating detail, this play with a remarkable cast shockingly lays bare the abject failures behind this disaster

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Grenfell Tower survivors perspective shared in new National Theatre play

A new play from the National Theatre will be staged in London to share the stories of the Grenfell Tower fire disaster with real shared experiences from the survivors

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National Theatre to stage play based on Grenfell survivors perspective

The production collected the stories of the bereaved, survivors and the wider community.

The Independent UK

Josie Rourke: ‘If Shakespeare was alive now he’d be under commission to Nica Burns’

As You Like It comes to London’s new venue @sohoplace this winter. The play’s director and the theatre’s owner discuss arts cuts, the industry’s gender balance and the pandemic

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Gilly Gilly review – Cush Jumbo’s searing play about abuse let down by mundane details

Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity

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