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  The Guardian

  The week in theatre: The House of Shades; My Fair Lady; The Breach

  Anne-Marie Duff’s aspiring singer transfixes in a didactic family saga; My Fair Lady feels strangely vacant. Plus, a stifling tale of dysfunctional siblings

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  The Independent

  The House of Shades review: Beth Steel’s epic working-class family drama is full of proper politics

  4/5 Anne-Marie Duff is on spectacular form as the family matriarch in this century-spanning new play

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  The Telegraph

  The House of Shades, review: a disturbing drama every Labour MP should see

  Any play that begins with a corpse laid out on a table is reaching for metaphor, and you don’t have long to wait in Beth Steel’s decades-spanning drama before it lands. “Not much different to a deserted factory,” remarks the woman cleaning the body. “Or boarded-up street.”

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  Evening Standard

  House of Shades at the Almeida review: A confused mix of family drama and political screed

  2/5 A layered, expressive lead performance from Anne-Marie Duff can’t save this baggy production

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  The Guardian

  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?: still brilliantly shocking at 60

  Featuring one of cinema’s most famous villains and two grand dames of Hollywood – Bette Davis and Joan Crawford – going toe to toe, this 1962 film packs a punch

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  The Guardian

  Betty Davis projected her own liberation – and freed up generations in her wake

  Loved by artists from Prince to Butthole Surfers, Davis created a fearlessly sexual, futurist sound that planted the seeds of rebellion

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  BANG Showbiz

  Betty Davis dead at 77

  Funk and soul legend Betty Davis has died at the age of 77 from natural causes

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  The Independent

  Betty Davis death: Funk music icon dies, aged 77

  Trailblazer was known for provocative lyrics that saw her banned from US television

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  The Guardian

  Parallel Mothers review – Almodóvar delivers an emotional bundle of joy

  Pedro Almodóvar’s poetic conviction and creative fluidity flow through this moving baby-swap drama about two single mothers and buried secrets from the Spanish civil war

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  The Telegraph

  50 masterpieces that will make you cry

  There’s something so cathartic about having a good weep, isn’t there? Purposefully searching for a ‘songs to cry to’ playlist, cranking up the Joni Mitchell and settling in for a night of slightly self-indulgent bawling – we’ve all been there. It does, somehow, end up making us feel better.

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