Theatre Blog

An undignified exit from the Edinburgh Festival ten years ago reminds Charles
Spencer why he shouldn’t drink.

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Have the baby boomers messed the world up? Rising playwright Mike Bartlett
tells Dominic Cavendish about Earthquakes, his new play at the National.

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After seeing weatherman Bill Giles at Marine theatre in Lyme Regis, theatre
critic Charles Spencer daydreams of running a regional theatre.

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Getting a plot for your play from someone else certainly wasn’t the easy
option in Improbable’s most recent theatre production. Rating: * * *

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Our pick of the best musicals at Edinburgh this year.

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Following on from the huge success of War Horse, the former Children’s
Laureate talks to Robert Gore-Langton about the new adaptation of Farm Boy.

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These enduring plays about ordinary women on the verge of an empowering
breakthrough are, quite simply, unmissably good. Rating: * * * *

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Jonathan Munby’s production shares the same bare-bones, austere look as last
year’s Life is a Dream. Rating: * * *

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In a production that could be heaven for lovers of Coronation Street, or hell
for those never persuaded of its virtues, the soap is to be transformed into
a stage play next month.

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The performances keep your eye off the flaws in this cheeky answer to
Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. Rating: * * * *

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