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The week in theatre: Giant; Roots; Look Back in Anger – review

John Lithgow as Roald Dahl towers over Nicholas Hytner’s production of an extraordinary debut play; Morfydd Clark finds her voice in a Wesker revival; and a John Osborne staging is a step backward

The Guardian - UK

John Osborne and Arnold Wesker captured the 50s but remain playwrights for the ages

I was 16 when I became obsessed with Look Back in Anger. Now, in a double bill with Roots at the Almeida, both dramas’ eternal truths are clear

The Guardian - UK

Roots/Look Back in Anger at the Almeida review: the ferocious roar of angry young men and women resonate down the decades

It is a particularly ripe moment to bring back two plays about the anger of younger generations with two plays that couldn’t be more different

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Bernard Kops obituary

Playwright best known for his signature early works The Hamlet of Stepney Green and Enter Solly Gold

The Guardian - UK

Front row at the wedding from hell: a toast to theatre’s marital ding-dongs

Party punch-ups, brides in disguise, simmering family rancour … playwrights have cordially invited audiences to some nightmarish nuptials

The Guardian - UK

Tracy-Ann Oberman looks back: ‘I’m thinking, What’s this? I want to be a princess!’

The actor and campaigner recreates an early moment dressed as a cowboy and recalls growing up with tough matriarchs

The Guardian - UK

Harry Landis obituary

Character actor whose stage and screen roles ranged from EastEnders and Minder to Shakespeare and Arnold Wesker

The Guardian - UK

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Antisemitism claims at the Royal Court theatre

Letters: Caryl Churchill and Dominic Cooke defend the play Seven Jewish Children, and John Pelling recalls plays by Arnold Wesker and Bernard Kops

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