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“I don’t have a proper job. I’m just a 17-stone bloke who’s walking about thinking.” You’d be forgiven for thinking...
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Words by Melissa Blease | Production images by Stewart McPherson It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which to...
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Words by Melissa Blease You hear those sardonic, plummy East End vowels and you know exactly what’s to come: Alfred...
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Words by Melissa Blease At Theatre Royal until Saturday 26 April A musical based on a film based on a...
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Words by Melissa Blease; production photographs by Manuel Harlan Norwegian playwright Henrik (“the father of modern drama”) Ibsen’s 1891 drama Hedda is...
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Words by Melissa Blease | Production images by Alex Tabrizi Since its premier in Chicago in 2001, writer and composer...
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Words by Isabelle Blakeney It took a long time for writer Alan Bleasdale to be convinced that his hit 1982...
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“If you’re looking for reassurance, you can be fooled. If you forget yourself and study others, you will not be...
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Words by India Farnham | Production photographs by Marc Brenner Over the last three months, Bath’s locals and visitors alike...
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Words by Melissa Blease | Production photos Johan Persson Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern gothic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, first...
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Words by Melissa Blease Theatre Royal Bath until 14 June Modern theatre doesn’t always need to blaze a trail, challenge...
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Review by Melissa Blease Rachel used to be married to Tom. Tom is now married to Anna, and they have a baby daughter. Tom and Anna wish Rachel would just...