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  The Seven Pomegranate Seeds, review: a bold but also breathless affair

  British theatre’s attitude to the classics have undergone a sea-change recently. Long distant now seem the Almeida’s Greek season of 2015, Medea at the National and Electra at the Old Vic in 2014. Instead of renewed artistic interrogation in a fairly conventional mode, the thrust is one of female reclamation.

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  The Guardian

  Tony Armatrading obituary

  Tony Armatrading obituaryStage and screen actor who enjoyed success with the RSC and in many TV and film roles, including Empire Road and Notting Hill Tony Armatrading as Herald Loomis in Joe Turner’s Come And Gone by August Wilson at the Tricycle theatre, London, in 1990. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

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  TV tonight: The Salisbury Poisonings begin to unfurl

  TV tonight: The Salisbury Poisonings begin to unfurlRafe Spall and Anne-Marie Duff star in a thrilling BBC drama based on the 2018 novichok attack. Plus: Big Brother’s Best Shows Ever. Here’s what to watch this evening

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  My Brilliant Friend review, National Theatre: A lively, generous tale of femininity and violence

  Theories abound as to the identity of Elena Ferrante. Thanks to the Neapolitan novels author’s aversion to publicity, some believe her to be the alter-ego of male writer Domenico Starnone. April De Angelis – who has adapted Ferrante’s novels into a lively, generous four-part play – doesn’t buy it. “It’s so female,” she said of the story. “The passions, the menstruation, and f***ing from a woman’s point of view. Women live secret lives and they are never allowed into the big narrative of what it

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  My Brilliant Friend review: Elena Ferrante's story makes a triumphant transition to stage

  From Elena Ferrante’s cult quartet of Neapolitan novels, playwright April de Angelis and director Melly Still have carved a richly textured, two-part piece of theatre exploring a complex female friendship across decades of postwar history.Leading a well-drilled ensemble as Lenù and Lila, Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack show that, in an underclass exploited by politicians, capitalists, gangsters and religion, it’s always women who come off worst. But that’s really only part of it.

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  My Brilliant Friend at the National Theatre: First look at pictures of Elena Ferrante story on stage

  The first production pictures of My Brilliant Friend have been released.The two-part adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s novels will open at the National Theatre next week. April de Angelis’s script has been reworked for the Olivier stage by Melly Still.

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  Macbeth review, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon - a case of theatrical overkill

  Macbeth review, RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon - a case of theatrical overkill

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  Macbeth, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, review: A powerful take on the Macbeth marriage

  Christopher Eccleston, here making his debut for the RSC, impressively conveys the horrible clash between the bluff, no-nonsense, northern-accented soldier and the inner man who is psychologically tormented by the implication of his deeds. Stalking around in sequinned sheaths and hobbling heels, Cusack signals a perturbing rapture of ambition and a nerve-jangling impatience with her cowering consort. The pain and strain of this double life come through alarmingly and the emotional deterioratio

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  Much ado about Shakespeare part 1: Macbeth - Christopher Eccleston, Niamh Cusack and Polly Findlay

  Much ado about Shakespeare part 1: Macbeth - Christopher Eccleston, Niamh Cusack and Polly Findlay

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  Christopher Eccleston to play Macbeth on stage

  Former Doctor Who to tread the boards in 2018.

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