Interview: To go from a singing nanny to the snobbish, brattish daughter of a Norwegian general is quite a leap, but one that former National Theatre director Richard Eyre has made in a little less than 12 months, as Nick Curtis discovered... read
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She is poised to become a West End sensation thanks to her leading role in a lavish new £4 million musical. But Gayatri Iyer clinched the part of the heroine in The Far Pavilions, which opens next month, with a show-stopping rendition of The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Music. .. read
Theatre Review: Over some rare plays, that pester an innocent audience to the verge of distraction, it would be more humane to draw not a veil but a gag, or even two. Torben Betts's so-called Spanish Revenge tragedy is one of them, says Nicholas de Jongh... read
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Theatre Review: In Mercury Fur, a group of characters gathers for a party and, one by one, each reveals something of their nature in long and unconvincing bouts of reminiscence, which includes gang-rape, murder and axemen performing unscheduled operations on hospital patients... read
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Theatre Review: Lovers from Hell doesn't quite do what it says on the tin. Promising plays about "people in extreme states of erotic and sexual confusion", this is more sting-in-the-tale territory; imagine Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected if he were gay, says Mark Cook... read
Theatre Review: David Glass's curious new show Disembodied is a mixture of the transcendent and the tedious. It is the setting for an exploration of ageing and the decay of mind and body and creates an atmosphere of haunted nostalgia, transforming pain into comedy... read
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Dance Review: Matthew Bourne's Highland Fling is a little-seen romantic-era ballet, set in rural Scotland that Bourne updates to a contemporary Glasgow high-rise. His hero is James, a lager-swilling, E-popping welder, bewitched by an inky-eyed siren, says Sarah Frater... read
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