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The School for Scandal

The vapours of eighteenth-century gossip are compared to the wind-borne whispers of rumour conveyed from one Smartphone to another in this production ...
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Radiant Vermin

Rushing onto stage and hushing the pre-show music, our main characters, Gill (Gemma Whelan) and Ollie (Sean Verey) announce that the play will begin b...
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Romeo and Juliet

SHAKESPEARE AT THE TOBACCO FACTORY AND TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES Polina Kalinina’s Romeo and Juliet is in a word frenetic. It skips with juvenile di...
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Arcadia

Andrew Hilton, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s artistic director, chose well in pairing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with Shakespeare’s As You Like It....
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As You Like It

As You Like It is one of those plays that we think we know: the cross-dressing, the dancing around and singing in the woods, thatspeech by Jaques, and...