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Aspects of Love

'Aspects of Love' was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of Michael Ball through his association with its hit numb...
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Brokeback Mountain

Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of 'Brokeback Mountain'. Such is its impact that it is hard to imagin...
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Leaves of Glass

This play by Philip Ridley was first shown in 2007 at the Soho Theatre where it was a considerable success with Ben Whishaw and Maxine Peake in lead r...
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Jonah – Theme of the Sea

The centrepiece of this one-off concert was 'Jonah', a new oratorio by Ian Fletcher. But the evening as a whole was devoted to music inspired by the s...
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The Circle

Tom Littler's first outing as the new Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre is very much in the traditions of this house - take an underperform...
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Sweeney Todd

Any call 'to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd' summons up Broadway rather than Hoxton; but it was at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton in 1847 that this gr...
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F**king Men

You might well think from the confronting title and art work that goes with it that this play occupies a position at the shallower end of the dramatic...
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Dancing at Lughnasa

'Atmosphere is more real than incident, and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory'. So says, Michael, the adult narrator in the elegiac mon...
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Animal

'Animal' opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It deserves to win many mor...
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The Good Person of Szechwan

This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht's most durable, where the balance between off-kilter dark humour...