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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold review: 'Propulsive, back-to-basics

4/5 John Le Carré’s classic Cold War novel is brought to the stage in thrillingly classic fashion

Evening Standard

Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves’s screen history makes their stage reunion all the more emotional

Stephen Poliakoff’s 1991 film Close My Eyes, about incestuous siblings, echoes as the actors return in David Eldridge’s End, playing a couple facing a cancer diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

End review – Saskia Reeves and Clive Owen draw couples trilogy to a tender close

David Eldridge’s two-hander depicts the difficult conversations that follow one partner’s cancer diagnosis

The Guardian - UK

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Ukraine war has reignited ‘cold war strategies’, says John le Carré’s son

Nick Harkaway sees parallels with postwar period as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold comes to the West End

The Guardian - UK

John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came In From The Cold to be staged in West End

After a sold-out production at Chichester Festival Theatre, the stage adaptation will run for 14 weeks in London from November.

Evening Standard

National Theatre ‘does not present world’s drama’, says playwright David Hare

The Oscar-nominated writer warned about the survival of the next ‘generation of writers’.

The Independent UK

Betrayal: cast, plot and everything we know about espionage thriller

Betrayal sees Shaun Evans playing a troubled MI5 operative

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The week in theatre: G; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; The Real Thing – review

Reality is up for debate in Tife Kusoro’s rapid-fire new drama, David Eldridge’s nuanced take on John le Carré, and Tom Stoppard’s most loving play

The Guardian - UK

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold review – first staging of le Carré classic is a hot ticket

This adaptation of the cold war spy thriller elegantly compresses the narrative and boasts star-making performances

The Guardian - UK

‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

The Guardian - UK

Moss Is A Powerful Carbon Storage Solution. Can It Help Fight Climate Change?

Scientists conducted the most comprehensive global field study of mosses, discovering they contribute vital services like carbon sequestration.

Inverse

Moss tops for nourishing soil and capturing carbon

Mosses may be the unsung heroes of the plant world as they capture up to six times more carbon dioxide than other plants

The New Daily

An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth's ecosystems than we knew

Mosses are some of the oldest land plants. They are found all over the world, from lush tropical rainforests to the driest deserts, and even the wind-swept hills of Antarctica.

The Conversation

Beginning review – touching after-party tale of the last two left standing

David Eldridge’s insightful play about a pair of singletons sizing each other up at the end of the night is relocated for a funny and moving revival

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Delicious recipes that will actually make you enjoy your health kick

Making healthy food fun helped Tom Kerridge stick to his weight loss goals – here’s four recipes he swears by

ABC News

Renewal SA investigates Port River industrial pollution after string of dolphin deaths

Renewal SA is investigating how heavy metals are being flushed into the Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary, but the government agency has come under fire for acting only after a parliamentary committee started looking into the issue.

ABC News

Polluted water entering Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary sparks alarm, as another dolphin dies

A yacht club says polluted water has been discharged into a dolphin sanctuary for years. The calls for answers have grown louder after eight dolphin deaths in the area in the past two years.

The Guardian - UK

Stars of summer: Florence Shaw, Claire Rushbrook, Arthur Hughes and Patricia Allison

Some of the actors and musicians in the summer’s most exciting new shows, from Grace Jones’s Meltdown to a radical Richard III, give us a taste of what to expect

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Evening Standard

David Eldridge: My play Middle is about the blue collar classes, but where else are they in theatre?

The Essex-born playwright asks why, as theatre diversifies, do the working class-made-good seem to remain invisible

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Middle; Prima Facie; Much Ado About Nothing

A couple struggle to connect – or touch – in David Eldridge’s latest; Jodie Comer owns the courtroom; and Lucy Bailey directs a sparkling new Much Ado

The Independent UK

The Week on Stage: from Oklahoma! to The Misfortune of the English

The highs and lows of the week’s theatre

The Guardian - UK

Middle review – marital and midlife reckoning brings gags and gripes

Gentle comedy leavens David Eldridge’s sequel about a couple mired in the swamps of regrets and resentments

The Independent UK

Middle review: David Eldridge play explores the mundanity of married life

Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan give nuanced performances as a married couple on the brink of splitting, but the script feels exposition-heavy

Evening Standard

Middle review: David Eldridge’s marriage drama is a emotional workout

Claire Rushbrook and Daniel Ryan give heartfelt, nuanced performances as a late-fortysomething Essex couple in crisis

The Guardian - UK

Playwright David Eldridge: ‘What’s important to me is to move people’

The dramatist and West Ham fan on exploring what it means to be a couple in his trilogy of plays and how King Lear blew his mind

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