GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Chafing against society’s upright and uptight mores
SUSAN DARLINGTON recommends an innovative production of Oscar Wilde’s classic
NO WEAK LINKS: (L to R from top) Daniel Jacob as Lady Bracknell, Adele James, Valentine Hanson, Anita Reynolds, (front row) Abiola Owokoniran, Joanne Henry and Phoebe Campbell
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Importance of Being Earnest
Leeds Playhouse
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that The Importance of Being Earnest possesses some of the most famous aphorisms in the English language.
It’s therefore to director Denzel Westley-Sanderson’s credit that his production for English Touring Theatre manages to bring fresh life to Oscar Wilde’s “trivial comedy for serious people.”
Supported by a pop-up exhibition showing studio portraits of black Victorians — by London gallery Autograph — he uses the social satire to challenge stereotypes of the period.
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