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The Recruiting Officer - © Johan Persson
The Recruiting Officer
Until Sat Apr 14, Donmar WarehouseFor her first production as Donmar artistic director, Josie Rourke directs a revival of George Farhquhar's 1706 Restoration comedy classic.
This week's theatre reviews
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The Bomb
Until Sun Apr 1, TricycleNicolas Kent goes out with a bang as his tenure as Tricycle artistic director ends with a two part cycle of plays about the nuclear bomb. Lee Blessing, Zinni...
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Boy in a Dress
Until Sat Mar 3, OvalhouseOvalhouse's 'If only…' season begins with an autobiographical monologue from La JohnJoseph, 'third-gendered, fallen Catholic, ex-fashion model from the wro...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Until Sat Mar 17, Lyric HammersmithFollowing the massive success of 'Twelfth NIght', Lyric artistic director Sean Holmes reunites with Filter for another doubtless disorientating, thoroughly B...
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A Few Man Fridays
Until Sat Mar 10, Riverside StudiosThis new play from Adrian Jackson and Cardboard Citizens is a re-imagining of the forced deportation of the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago by th...
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Lucky Stiff
Until Sat Feb 25, Landor TheatreRare-ish revival for Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical comedy about a shoe salesman attempting to palm the embalmed corpse of his uncle off as a sti...
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Patience
Until Sat Mar 10, Union TheatreThe latest installment in Union Theatre artistic director Sasha Regan's series of all male cast Gilbert and Sullivan revivals is this 1881 satire on the empt...
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Rocinante! Rochinante!
Until Fri Mar 2, CLF Art CaféWell you can't fault the ambition of this performance piece from Panta Rei, in which Don Quixote stumbles across the gravediggers from 'Hamlet' in, an, um, H...
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A Russian Play
Until Sun Mar 4, Lion and Unicorn TheatreOn a cold Russian night on the eve of the Bolshevik revolution, two penniless friends get more than they bargained for after resolving to let a bed to a lodg...
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The Shallow End
Until Sat Mar 3, Southwark PlayhouseThe staff of a Sunday newspaper are forced to consider how important journalistic values really are to them in Sebastien Blanc's very timely revival for Doug...
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Singin' in the Rain
Until Sat Sep 29, Palace TheatreFollowing the recent rash of flop jukebox musicals ('Love Story', 'Flash Dance', 'All the Fun of the Fair'), now Jonathan Church's adaptation of the classic ...
More London theatre reviews
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Absent Friends
Until Sat Apr 14, Harold Pinter TheatreThe second production to grace the stage of the former Comedy Theatre is, ironically, the first comedy this building has played host to in aeons. A rock-soli...
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At Swim Two Boys
Until Sat Feb 25, Riverside StudiosWelsh physical theatre company Earthfall revives its acclaimed adaptation of Jamie O'Neill's novel about a love affair between two young Irish men that takes...
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The Devil and Mister Punch
Until Sat Feb 25, Barbican CentreImprobable's latest is the first Barbican theatre shows of the year. Devised by the company in collaboration with oddball actor Julian Crouch, the mischievou...
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The Furies
Until Sun Feb 26, Old Vic TunnelsThis ferocious performance piece from Birmingham's Kindle Theatre incorporates rock, metal and soul to tell the story of Clytemnestra and her avenging Furies...
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Master Class
Until Sat Apr 28, Vaudeville TheatreJust a few months after Cagney -aka Sharon Gless - came to London in a play… here comes Lacey, aka Tyne Daly. She reprises the role of controversial opera ...
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Muswell Hill
Until Sat Mar 10, Orange Tree TheatreThe Orange Tree kicks off a strong-looking 2012 with a new play from Torben Betts, a comedy of suburban embarrassment in which a north London dinner party pl...
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Odyssey
Until Sat Feb 25, BACThe Paper Cinema - purveyors of dreamy, silent movie-style storytelling shows performed by live musicians and puppeteers using hand drawn marionettes -headli...
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Sex with a Stranger
Until Sat Feb 25, Trafalgar StudiosSome decent names for the Trafalgar's sterile second space, as Russell 'Him & Her' Tovey and Britflick star Jaime Winston take to the stage for a new play fr...
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