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  Love Letters review – Jenny Seagrove and Martin Shaw are superbly matched

  Love Letters review – Jenny Seagrove and Martin Shaw are superbly matched. Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonThe emotional and physical distance of this epistolary novel for the stage is ideal for Covid-era theatre, performed here with power and finesse

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  Love Letters at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: trite, self-satisfied, but it works

  AR Gurney’s 1988 play is a dated slice of haute bourgeois Americana, but deftly handled it’s perfect for the age of Covid

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  Love Letters review, Theatre Royal, Windsor: Jenny Seagrove and Martin Shaw impress in a tale of almost-requited love

  It’s remarkable how turret-touchingly close planes come to Windsor Castle on their groaning descent to nearby Heathrow. But perhaps the resulting noise blight is oddly reassuring at the moment for Her Majesty and family – a sign that life is returning to normal. And the same, I think, applies to Love Letters, the reopening flourish for the (very nearby) Theatre Royal, Windsor, which is among the first regional venues to get actors trundling back across the boards again (with socially distanced b

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  Alison Fiske obituary

  Alison Fiske obituaryAward-winning actor who brought intensity to roles ranging from Shakespeare to feminist comedy

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  Rhodes: the controversial, wildly expensive flop the BBC would rather forget

  “I have viewed the peoples of the world and come to the conclusion that the English-speaking race has the highest ideals of justice, liberty and peace. Therefore I shall devote the rest of my life to God’s purpose and make the world English.” Thus went Martin Shaw’s opening speech as British TV’s most expensive ever production arrived on our screens on 15 September 1996. This was Rhodes, BBC One’s lavish series telling the story of Victorian tycoon and arch imperialist Cecil Rhodes. Accompanying

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  Maureen Lipman faints during West End performance

  Actress is reported to be "doing fine".

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  Gore Vidal's political interrogation can still induce a shudder - The Best Man, Playhouse, review

  Gore Vidal's political interrogation can still induce a shudder - The Best Man, Playhouse, review

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  The Best Man goes beyond Trump, say Martin Shaw and Jeff Fahey

  Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, which made its West End debut last night at the Playhouse, concerns itself with the crack which seems so often to divide elections. In it, two candidates compete to become their (unspecified) party’s presidential candidate of 1960. This other, Joseph Cantwell, is a self-made man, a bluster of confidence who has no problem exploiting his rival’s past – a nervous breakdown – and spinning into a mental health smear campaign.

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  Martin Shaw: My 1960 politics play The Best Man couldn’t be more relevant

  Martin Shaw believes his play about corruption in politics addresses why no one trusts politicians — and is even more relevant with Donald Trump in office. The actor plays a would-be US presidential candidate in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, which had its press night at the Playhouse Theatre yesterday. Written in 1960, it focuses on the moral sacrifices made behind closed doors on the road to the White House.

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  The Best Man's Honeysuckle Weeks: Politics is like the court of Henry VIII now

  Honeysuckle Weeks says her new role in a play about political corruption reminds her of her mother’s attempt to be an MP. The Foyle’s War star, 38, is preparing to lay bare the sacrifices made on the path to the White House in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, first staged in 1960. In 2010 her mother Susan Wade Weeks ran as a Conservative in York Central but lost to Labour’s Hugh Bayley.

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