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Animal Farm on stage: a ‘startlingly handsome’ production
The Week Recommends War Horse-style animal puppetry is used to ‘magnificent’ effect
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The Chairs review: the theatre of the absurd at its ‘most absurdist’
The Week Recommends The 1952 ‘absurdist masterpiece’ by Eugène Ionesco is now on at the Almeida
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A Number at the Old Vic: ‘a devastating drama about paternal neglect’
The Week Recommends Lyndsey Turner’s staging is ‘ignited’ by Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu
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Dr Semmelweis: Mark Rylance offers a ‘mesmerising turn’
The Week Recommends Story follows the 19th century Hungarian physician who ‘realised the life-saving value of hand hygiene’
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Moulin Rouge! on stage: ‘it burns prettily enough, but it doesn’t blaze’
The Week Recommends Tony-winning adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s much-loved film now on at the Piccadilly Theatre
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Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! – a ‘riproaring return to form’
The Week Recommends Originally staged in 1992, this adaptation has been revived for the first time in ten years
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The Play What I Wrote: a ‘daft and delightful’ celebration of Morecambe & Wise
The Week Recommends This stage comedy show is the ‘ideal winter warmer’
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Life of Pi on stage: the ‘spiritual successor to War Horse’
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Manor at the National Theatre: a ‘breathtakingly inept’ satire
The Week Recommends New ‘state-of-the-nation’ drama mystifies, bores and slowly enrages
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The Wife of Willesden: Zadie Smith’s ‘rambunctious’ reworking of Chaucer
The Week Recommends Kiln Theatre production is a ‘stunning piece of freewheeling stagecraft’, said The Times
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: ‘shows like this don’t come along very often’
The Week Recommends Critics praise ‘hauntingly memorable’ performance with some ‘genuinely terrifying’ moments
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The Magician’s Elephant: a remarkable feat of large-scale puppetry
The Week Recommends RSC’s big Christmas show features a convincing life-sized elephant, with a ‘playful trunk, flappy ears and mournful eyes’
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Wuthering Heights on stage: an ‘emotionally epic’ adaptation
The Week Recommends Emma Rice’s touring production is packed with her ‘trademark troubadour quirkiness’
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The Tragedy of Macbeth: Saoirse Ronan’s ‘spellbinding’ British stage debut
The Week Recommends ‘Psychological terror’ too slow to materialise, though when it does arrive it is ‘brute, unrestrained and blood-curdling’
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