PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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A necessary meditation on the corrosiveness of fascism
MARY CONWAY applauds the timely restaging of a play premiered to world-wide acclaim in 1981
REVELATORY POWER: (L to R) Elliot Levey, David Tennant and Sharon Small
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LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
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Harold Pinter Theatre
IT’S Germany 1933; the Nazis have exploded into power; Jewish religious practices are outlawed and public conversation is peppered with anti-Jewish rhetoric.
Euthanasia for the infirm is openly discussed; Hitler’s cabinet have suspended the right to protest, and the world is about to be rocked to its foundations by one fanatical man and one uncompromising idea. What would you do if you were there?
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