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The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act

www.wakaticket.com – Bob Golding, Simon Cartwright and Damian Williams, who have played the comedy giants before, summon them like spirits to the stage in this tribute…
The Last Laugh review – Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse’s antic triple act
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DeNada Dance Theatre: Mariposa review – Madame Butterfly metamorphosed

www.wakaticket.com – Carlos Pons Guerra turns Puccini’s tragedy into the story of a Cuban sex worker who completely transforms himself to win the love of a sailor…
DeNada Dance Theatre: Mariposa review – Madame Butterfly metamorphosed
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A View from the Bridge review – thrilling update pulls no punches

www.wakaticket.com – Jemima Levick’s superb production sets Arthur Miller’s tale of family, immigration, poverty and passion in the modern-day Brooklyn docks…
A View from the Bridge review – thrilling update pulls no punches
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The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison

www.wakaticket.com – Staging Shakespeare and Twelve Angry Men with fellow prisoners was a revelation but Oedipus Rex proved particularly poignant…
The play that changed my life: Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin on lessons from Sophocles in prison
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Eddie Kadi: ‘People think I’m always ready to crack jokes. If you’re a doctor, I don’t ask you to operate on me!’

www.wakaticket.com – The standup and presenter on preshow prayers, blending dance with comedy and the night he bombed at the BBC…
Eddie Kadi: ‘People think I’m always ready to crack jokes. If you’re a doctor, I don’t ask you to operate on me!’
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‘They now put trigger warnings on Hi-de-Hi!’ Jeffrey Holland on starring in British comedy classics

www.wakaticket.com – He was Spike the gormless comic in the holiday camp hit and also bagged roles in You Rang M’Lord? and Dad’s Army. As he publishes a memoir, Holland talks about frisky stallions, today’s ‘over-sensitive’ era – and being huge in Hungary…
‘They now put trigger warnings on Hi-de-Hi!’ Jeffrey Holland on starring in British comedy classics
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Hansel and Gretel review – Northern Ballet ditch the witch in peril-free eco-fable

www.wakaticket.com – Witty compositions and appealing performances win over a young audience but the traditionally grisly tale gets lost in the woods…
Hansel and Gretel review – Northern Ballet ditch the witch in peril-free eco-fable
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Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play

www.wakaticket.com – White Horse is based on beloved book and explores importance of place, family, home and belonging…
Stories from Cornwall brought to life in new Michael Morpurgo play
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Miss I-Doll review – a punkish sendup of reality TV competitions

www.wakaticket.com – A concussed contestant causes a stir with her unfiltered protest songs, in this caffeinated monologue performed by Daisy Steere…
Miss I-Doll review – a punkish sendup of reality TV competitions
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The Engagement Party review – a disappointing love letter to Oldham

www.wakaticket.com – afshan d’souza-lodhi’s play, commissioned to celebrate the saved-from-closure Coliseum, fails to rise to the occasion…
The Engagement Party review – a disappointing love letter to Oldham
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Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey review – gorgeous whimsy from Haruki Murakami

www.wakaticket.com – Sandy Grierson is astonishing as a talking monkey working in a Japanese bathhouse in this slight but theatrically beguiling slice of magical-realism…
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey review – gorgeous whimsy from Haruki Murakami
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The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

www.wakaticket.com – A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking…
The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed
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The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review

www.wakaticket.com – Luke Thallon is a compelling, all-at-sea Hamlet, Hayley Atwell and Tom Hiddleston sizzle as Beatrice and Benedick, while Bridgerton’s Jonathan Bailey is a bit too much the overreaching king…
The week in theatre: Hamlet; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II – review
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Sunday with Richard Herring: ‘I eat a Solero every day’

www.wakaticket.com – The comedian, 57, tells Rich Pelley about jogging, not drinking, how his kids are the funny ones and why he’s depriving himself of those moreish ice lollies…
Sunday with Richard Herring: ‘I eat a Solero every day’
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Waltz this way: rival venues in Vienna compete to celebrate Johann Strauss’s 200th birthday

www.wakaticket.com – As the Austrian capital honours the legacy of its dance king, the race is on to attract the most punters…
Waltz this way: rival venues in Vienna compete to celebrate Johann Strauss’s 200th birthday
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Figures in Extinction review – Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s impassioned response to the climate crisis

www.wakaticket.com – The choreographer and director’s impassioned trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion…
Figures in Extinction review – Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s impassioned response to the climate crisis
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The Australian Ballet: Nijinsky review - riveting, defiant portrait of madness ain’t pretty

www.wakaticket.com – John Neumeier’s ballet about the life and torment of ‘god of dance’ Vaslav Nijinsky is searing, passionate and defiantly queer…
The Australian Ballet: Nijinsky review - riveting, defiant portrait of madness ain’t pretty
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Picnic at Hanging Rock review – a haunting, heady horror story

www.wakaticket.com – Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the beloved Joan Lindsay novel, in which four schoolgirls go missing during a bush excursion, reveals the ghost story lurking within…
Picnic at Hanging Rock review – a haunting, heady horror story
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Otherland review – touchingly relatable trans drama

www.wakaticket.com – Brimming with humour and compassion, the story of Jo and Harry, a couple who go their separate ways, is a powerful reminder of how theatre lets us live beyond our own bodies…
Otherland review – touchingly relatable trans drama
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Backstroke review – Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie lift choppy mother-daughter drama

www.wakaticket.com – Greig breathes compassion into her relations with self-absorbed parent Imrie but their exchanges swim across the decades incoherently…
Backstroke review – Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie lift choppy mother-daughter drama
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