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  The Forest, review: no wonder Gina McKee looks disappointed throughout

  Hampstead must have thought it had struck gold in bagging a world premiere from Florian Zeller. Is there a contemporary playwright more Midas-fingered?

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  The Forest at Hampstead Theatre review: this thorny puzzle isn’t Florian Zeller’s finest work

  3/5 Toby Stephens and Gina McKee star in the world premiere of a drama that is stylish but not as profound as it thinks

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  Christopher Hampton interview: I never write plays telling you what to think

  In 2012, the British playwright Christopher Hampton saw a play by a then little-known French writer in Paris and loved it so much he volunteered to translate it into English. The director Laurence Boswell put it on at Bath’s tiny Ustinov theatre in 2014 and the following year it transferred to the West End before embarking on a UK tour.

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  Gina McKee and Toby Stephens team up with Oscar winner for new play at Hampstead Theatre

  The pair join a cast including Paul McGann and Angel Coulby in The Forest from February 5. Zeller, whose film The Father also won a best actor Oscar for Anthony Hopkins, shared the best adapted screenplay award with his Hampton at this year’s Oscars.

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  Downton Abbey's Maggie Smith's family: meet her famous sons, ex-husband and more

  Dame Maggie Smith is one of the nation's favourite actors having been in a number of films and TV shows over her successful career spanning over 50 years. In recent times, the 85-year-old is best known for her work in films such as A Room With a View, The Lady in the Van and Harry Potter.MORE: Downton Abbey's Joanne Froggatt celebrates exciting news about latest projectLoading the player...WATCH: Kate supports BBC's Tiny Happy PeopleHowever, she's also known for her work in long-running ITV peri

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  Downton Abbey star Maggie Smith's family: meet her famous sons, ex-husband and more

  Dame Maggie Smith is one of the nation's favourite actors having been in a number of films and TV shows over her successful career spanning over 50 years. In recent times, the 85-year-old us best known for her work in films such as A Room With a View, The Lady in the Van and Harry Potter. However, she's also known for her work in long-running ITV period drama Downton Abbey, playing Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, and her extensive theatre work in Shakespeare productions in the

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  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg review: Pin-sharp revival is as heartbreaking and funny as ever

  Peter Nichols’s play was ground-breaking in 1967 and remains heartbreaking and savagely funny today.A semi-autobiographical study of parents coping with a severely disabled child, it smashes down taboos and the fourth wall, blending the profound and the pedestrian to comic effect. Simon Evans’s pin-sharp revival features a bravura performance from Toby Stephens and a positively radiant one from Claire Skinner.

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  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Trafalgar Studios, review: both savage and compassionate

  Peter Nichols died two weeks before this latest revival of his 1967 loosely autobiographical, taboo-busting classic, about a married couple struggling to cope with their severely disabled daughter, started previewing. We'll never know if he harboured doubts over how the play might fare in today's climate. His protagonists, after all, carelessly toss about words like 'spastic' and 'proper working child'. And there is, today, far more focus on the rights of the disabled than there was even in 2001

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  Storme Toolis to be first disabled star to take on title role in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

  An actress with cerebral palsy is the first disabled actress to take on the title role in the West End version of stage classic A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.Storme Toolis, 26, says she is “privileged” to be making history by playing the severely disabled child in Peter Nichols’ play which was inspired by his own experiences bringing up a disabled daughter.

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  Playwright Peter Nichols dies aged 92

  A production of A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg is opening in London next week.

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