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Capturing the big bad Woolf

20.08.08
If ever there was a work suited to the theatre director Katie Mitchell's distinctive style of radical reinterpretation it is Virginia Woolf's The Waves, starting its second National Theatre run.... more

Shame about the dame in Solyom's show

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Whishaw caught in portrayal of betrayal

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Promise melts away

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All human life is here

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Rufus triumphant as Rock'n'Roll rules

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Winners to be named at London theatre awards

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Critic's choice: Top 5 plays

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The riveting Frost/Nixon continues to enthrall, as do a new adaptation of one of Virginia Woolf's most "difficult" works and a classic by Euripedes.... more

Fixated by this brilliant adaptation

20.11.06
The Waves, Virginia Woolf's beautiful, modernist prose-poem of a novel, has been adapted for the stage and the result is compelling, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more

Stars to announce our 52nd theatre awards

20.11.06
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