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Endgame

A tragicomic masterpiece, but… sometimes seen as a ‘difficult’ and alienating play. I couldn’t have put it better than the programme notes in issuing ...
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The genre-smashing, cliché-bashing success that was Maxine Peake’s Hamlet was always going to be a hard act for the Royal Exchange’s to follow. Sure e...
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Pests

You know when you’re at school, and you’re forced to read a play and analyse every word to death, and it’s not until way later that you see it onstage...
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The Way You Tell Them

There’s something appealingly childlike and vulnerable about comic Rachel Mars – she made her name on the small fringe stages of London by turning up ...
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Orlando

A bubbly bunch of fresh, fun actors and Max Webster’s beautiful production add up to an absolute treat at the Royal Exchange Theatre. It’s light, musi...