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Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it ...
Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and televised even more frequently (a Mexican incarnation materialised in 2023).
Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★★A rehearsal room; a tense preparation session for a production of King Lear, provocatively gender-swapped; a troublesome diva in the title role; and a near-silent ...
Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as fat as she used to be. And that’s the premise of BIG, in which she describes why she has been ...
"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist–novelist-director Dag Johan Haugerud, whose new film Oslo Stories: Dreams is all about the ...
The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as "peak Sellers", a period when the great comic actor rarely seemed to put ...
A rare cloud form envelopes the headland and to the east and the west Folkestone is cut off from the known world. This mist ...