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Corps Extrêmes - RachidOuramdane © Pascale Cholette
24 May
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Review: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse / Rachid Ouramdane CORPS EXTRÊMES

Circus arts and contemporary dance coalesce in a giddy and seemingly gravity-defying visual onslaught at Sadlers Wells this week, as acrobats assail walls and demonstrate feats of strength and balance with grace and panache.

Corps Extrêmes - RachidOuramdane © Pascale CholetteCorps Extrêmes - RachidOuramdane © Pascale Cholette

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Serena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel Harlan
21 May
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Review: BLEAK EXPECTATIONS at The Criterion

Zany Dickensian-inspired mayhem has landed at Piccadilly Circus in the form of a period farce with more Charles Dickens references than you could feasibly shake an ebony silver-topped cane at — and there really couldn’t be a more fitting venue to host such a Victorian comedy melodrama, than The Criterion.

Serena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel HarlanSerena Manteghi, J.J. Henry, Ashh Blackwood, Dom Hodson and Rachel Summers - Bleak Expectations - credit Manuel Harlan

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Brokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel Harlan
19 May
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Review: BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN at Soho Place

Originally published as a short story in The New Yorker magazine back in 1997, Annie Proulx’s sensitive tale of two young cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar struggling with poverty in rural Wyoming, was turned into an Oscar-winning movie in 2005 and perhaps more surprisingly, an opera in 2014. Here, the story receives a further treatment — this time as a play by Ashley Robinson, supported with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells.

Brokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel HarlanBrokeback Mountain. Mike Faist (Jack) and Lucas Hedges (Ennis). Credit - Manuel Harlan

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The Dumb Waiter - A Slight Ache
19 May
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Review: THE DUMB WAITER & A SLIGHT ACHE at Greenwich Theatre

The Dumb Waiter - A Slight Ache Greenwich Theatre, just a stones throw from Cutty Sark DLR, is currently offering a Pinter double bill of late 1950s dark comedies. Some consider both The Dumb Waiter and The Slight Ache mini-masterworks given that they examine power, influence, susceptibility, suspicion, confusion, perception and assumption.

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Pamela Raith Photography
17 May
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Review: HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING at Southwark Playhouse

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING — Frank Loesser’s rarely revived 1961 Broadway collaboration with Abe Burrows which pitches the avaricious, the idiotic and the eternally romantic side-by-side in business, has begun a limited run at Southwark Playhouse.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Pamela Raith PhotographyHow to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Southwark Playhouse. Photography by Pamela Raith

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