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‘Frailty and terrible rage’: Linda Bassett on Call the Midwife, her crap-free CV and selling ice creams at Olivier’s Old Vic

Best known as Nurse Phyllis in the TV hit, the actor is a peerless interpreter of Caryl Churchill and is starring in Alexander Zeldin’s ‘Shakespearean’ play about dementia. She looks back on a career of unconventional choices

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Caryl Churchill pulls out of Donmar Warehouse project over Barclays’ Israel links

Playwright urges theatre to cut ties with bank, which has been criticised for providing financial services to defence firms supplying Israel

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Hopeful or ‘hate-fuelled’? Film of controversial play about Israel gets London premiere

Director says Seven Jewish Children by Caryl Churchill, which provoked fury at its first production in 2009, is a ‘family story’ at heart

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Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – a dislocating Caryl Churchill evening of two halves

These two short plays offer differing pleasures, one in the acting, the other in its subtle meditation on mourning

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Unicorn; Churchill in Moscow – review

Erin Doherty, Stephen Mangan and Nicola Walker rise to the challenge in Mike Bartlett’s witty dissection of a throuple. And Roger Allam makes a magnificent Churchill in Howard Brenton’s broad-brush latest

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L’Amore Del Cuore (Heart’s Desire) review – enticing Italian take on Caryl Churchill

This gnomic production of Churchill’s 1997 play, about a couple awaiting their daughter’s return, is packed with confusions and curveballs

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‘White supremacy was never hidden from me’: Jeremy O Harris on bringing Broadway hit Slave Play to the UK

With the London opening of his incendiary work set to be among the theatre events of the year, the dramatist talks about the furore over its study of sex and race

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Leading lights of UK stage call for Israeli release of Palestinian theatre group

Open letter signed by top playwrights, actors and directors demands Israel free members of Freedom theatre

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Ian Spink obituary

Choreographer, creative director and co-founder of Second Stride, a company that transformed contemporary dance in the 1980s

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Owners review – Caryl Churchill’s 1970s housing comedy is still bleakly relevant

Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting

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Michael Gambon: an actor who let his heart and soul crack open

A star with incredible presence, Gambon brought heft and delicacy, mischief and feeling, to the stage and screen

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Escaped Alone and What If If Only review – this Caryl Churchill double bill opens with a masterpiece

These two short plays by the legendary UK playwright span afternoon tea and the apocalypse, past and future, grief and survival

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untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play review – ferociously funny satire calls out centuries of colonialist dramas

Kimber Lee’s punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes

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The week in theatre: Top Girls; The Great British Bake Off Musical; Sleepova; Oklahoma! – review

A revival of Caryl Churchill’s female power play has yet to settle; Paul and Prue become song-and-dance naturals; a fab four get ready for bed; and who can say no to this Rodgers and Hammerstein reinvention

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Toxteth actress returning home for Top Girls play

Liverpool Everyman hosts the 40th anniversary of the play Top Girls with Liverpool actor Alicya Eyo

Chicago Sun-Times

Working in an onstage dirt patch, ‘Fen’ cast faces hardships and horrors in stellar production

Court Theatre goes for realism, then metaphor, in a rarely revived Caryl Churchill play worth unearthing.

Liverpool Echo

The Everyman's creative director 'jacked in a Cambridge law degree' to make theatre that matters

"I should by rights be a millionaire by now and I was brought up on benefits - this has to matter."

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Cancellation of award for playwright Caryl Churchill condemned

Leading figures in British theatre and film criticise decision not to give Churchill award because of her support for Palestinian rights

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Jews. In Their Own Words review – appalling revelations in a gallop through centuries of bigotry

Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results feel urgent – but is its remit simply too large?

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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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AM Homes: ‘We want to believe that opportunity exists for women now; it does and it doesn’t’

The US author on trying to add a note of optimism to her work, getting advice from Jeanette Winterson, and her prescient new novel about a coup in Washington

Daily Record

'Adopted Scots' Robin Kingsland and Paul Albertson to perform at EK theatre

Rapture Theatre’s newest lunch time play: A Number by Caryl Churchill comes to East Kilbride Arts Centre on May 29.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: A Number; The Glow – review

Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu illuminate Caryl Churchill’s great cloning play, while a fine cast lift Alistair McDowall’s wordy new dystopia

The Guardian - UK

A Number review – Lennie James and Paapa Essiedu scintillate as father and sons

The powerhouse duo’s effortless chemistry and emotional realism brings Caryl Churchill’s cloning tragedy blazing into new life

Evening Standard

A Number review: Tour de force turns from Paapa Essiedu and Lennie James

Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 cloning drama brings two renowned actors back to the stage

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