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The Entertainer
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Royal Exchange, Manchester
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David Schofield stars in a revival of John Osborne's scathing 1957 play.
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Uncle Vanya
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Old Vic, Bristol
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Captivating staging of Chekhov's classic by Bristol's Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory.
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The Tragic and Disturbing Tale of Little Lupin
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Old Vic, Bristol
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Inventive backstage promenade production designed and directed by Luci Gorell Barnes.
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Beyond The Frontline
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Lowry, Salford
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Slung Low explore modern warfare via an open air and interactive theatrical experiment.
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My Life With the Dogs
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Tobacco Factory, Bristol
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NIE's vibrant, physical staging, based on the true tale of a young Russian boy who spent two years living with wild dogs.
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East is East
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Birmingham Rep, Birmingham
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A revival of Ayub Khan-Din's semi-autobiographical comedy at the theatre where it was first staged.
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My Mother Said I Never Should
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Palace Theatre, Watford
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A revival of Charlotte Keatley’s 1987 play about four generations of women from the same family.
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The Miser
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Royal Exchange, Manchester
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Derek Griffiths stars in an engergetic staging of Moliere's comedy.
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Midsummer
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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
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David Greig's uplifting 'play with songs', a love story set on the rain-lashed streets of Edinburgh.
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Lilly Through The Dark
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Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
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A young girl searches for her father in the River People's moving fairy tale for grown ups.
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The 14th Tale
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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
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Inua Ellam's lyrical and rhythmic spoken word show describes a childhood growing up in Nigeria, London and Dublin.
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Orphans
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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
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Dennis Kelly's taut three-hander about an act of violence in a near dystopian 'us' and 'them' world.
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Precious Little Talent
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Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh
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Ella Hickson's follow up to Eight is a well-judged three-hander about an English girl in New York.
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Crush
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Underbelly, Edinburgh
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Paul Charlton's two-hander about relationship breakdown in the internet age.
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The Hotel
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Assembly@George Street, Edinburgh
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Mark Watson and the Invisible Dot present a uniquely immersive comedy experience thing.
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Accidental Nostalgia
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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
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Cynthia Hopkins blends music and storytelling in a meditation on suppressed memories.
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If That's All There Is
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Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
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Reality and fantasy blur in Inspector Sands' new piece about the pursuit of the perfect
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It's Rhys Darby Night
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Udderbelly, Edinburgh
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Band meeting: Flight of the Conchords' hapless manager brings his sold-out solo show to the Fringe.
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Party
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Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
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Tim Key stars in Tom Basden's comedy about a group of students attempting to form a political party.
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The Event
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Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
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David Calvitto stars in John Clancy's meta-theatrical monologue.
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My Name is Sue
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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
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Dafydd James plays the cardigan-wearing, pill-popping Sue in this quirky mini-musical.
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Land Without Words
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Just The Tonic @ The Caves, Edinburgh
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Lucy Ellinson stars in German playwright Dea Loher's play about an artist's response to war.
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Beachy Head
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Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh
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Analogue's inventive but distant multimedia production about one man's decision to end his life.
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The Girls of Slender Means
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Assembly @ George Street, Edinburgh
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Stellar Quines' stage adaptation of Muriel Spark's wartime-set novel of 1963.
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Sweet
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C, Edinburgh
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Chotto Ookii's non-rom-com is a visually inventive piece of physical theatre.
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Pythonesque
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Udderbelly's Pasture, Edinburgh
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James Lance stars in Roy Smiles' entertaining account of the Life of Python.
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Sweeney Todd: His Life, Times and Execution!
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Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh
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Not Sondheim, rather an inventive retelling of the Sweeney Todd story through puppetry, mime and music.
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Hugh Hughes in...360
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Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
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New solo story-telling show from Hoi Polloi's 'emerging artist from Anglesey'.
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Certain Dark Things
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Underbelly, Edinburgh
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Our Edinburgh coverage kicks off with an atmospheric devised piece from You Need Me.
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Latitude Festival - Comedy Highlights
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Henham Park, Suffolk
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Janeane Garofalo, Ed Byrne and Mark Thomas were among those on the bill at this year's Latitude.
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Latitude Festival - Theatre, Poetry, Literature and Dance
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Henham Park, Suffolk
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Theatre, poetry and all the other stuff from the 'Radio 4 festival.'
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Young@Heart Chorus
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Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
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Performers aged from 73 to 89 feature in End of the Road at the Royal Northern College of Music.
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Everybody Loves a Winner
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Royal Exchange, Manchester
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The Manchester International Festival continues with Neil Bartlett's bingo hall play.
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It Felt Like a Kiss
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Hardman Square, Manchester
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The Manchester International Festival begins with a collaboration between Punchdrunk and Adam Curtis.
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Lost Monsters
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Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
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Joe McGann and Rebecca Ryan star in Laurence Wilson's gripping new play.
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A View From The Bridge
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Richmond Theatre, Richmond
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Lindsay Posner's acclaimed production of Arthur Miller's play goes on tour.
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The Winslow Boy
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Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames
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Timothy West and Adrian Lukis star in Terence Rattigan's still pertinent play about justice.
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Playboy of the Western World
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Richmond Theatre, Richmond
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Nuanced staging of J.M Synge's 1907 play by Galway's Druid Theatre.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
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Festival Theatre, Chichester
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Joseph Fiennes dons a false nose for Edmond Rostand's romantic tragicomedy.
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The BFG
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Palace Theatre, Watford
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Lively touring production of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel.
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Brief Encounter
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Richmond Theatre, Richmond
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Following a successful West End run, Kneehigh's staging of the classic British film goes on tour.
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His Dark Materials
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Birmingham Rep
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Rachel Kavanaugh and Sarah Esdaile direct an epic two part staging of Philip Pullman's trilogy.
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Billy Wonderful
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Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
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Nick Leather's fast-paced coming of age story about a young footballer.
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The Tempest
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Richmond Theatre, Richmond
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Anthony Sher and John Kani star in a RSC co-production with South Africa's Baxter Theatre.
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The Hounding of David Oluwale
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Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
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Eclipse Theatre stages Kester Aspden's book about police persecution in the 1960s.
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Othello
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West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
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Lenny Henry tackles Shakespeare in a production by Northern Broadsides.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames
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Propeller's all male staging of Shakespeare's comedy goes on tour.
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The Price
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Playhouse, Liverpool
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Giles Croft directs a resonant staging of Arthur Miller's play.
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