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Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Umi Myers is magnetic in this clever feminist take on the classic

4/5 There are plenty of scary moments in this reworking that asks whether vampires or the patriarchy are the real monsters

Evening Standard

Dracula review – Mina Harker bites back but drama is deadened by tricksy retelling

A fixation on how to frame Bram Stoker’s story disrupts the flow of this feminist reboot, killing the fear factor

The Guardian - UK

Dracula rises again: Umi Myers on a new show with its teeth on the pulse

A new production of Dracula at the Lyric Hammersmith tells the classic horror through a female perspective and aims to cleverly explore contemporary fears while scaring the old school pants off you

Evening Standard

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The week in audio: Surviving Politics With Michael Gove; In the Studio; Up in Smoke; Unfit for Service – review

The ex-Tory minister talks shop; artist Jonny Banger enthuses about his activism; Mei Mac and Adam Buxton lift a spooky drama; and a harrowing look at the US military’s attitudes to homosexuality

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: Tears and turnarounds in Davina McCall’s new show about new starts

The TV icon turned midlife expert hears from guests on starting over in Begin Again. Plus: five of the best comfort listen podcasts

The Guardian - UK

Actor Mei Mac: ‘I gave a piece of my soul to My Neighbour Totoro’

The star of the hit RSC production on playing a four-year-old, her love of the sea and why Ghibli storytelling changes how you view the world

The Guardian - UK

untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play at the Young Vic review: a gruelling watch

The play is savagely funny as it nails damaging stereotypes, but the repetitions and relentless acid tone soon show diminishing returns

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Manchester international festival theatre roundup – carnival, canals and the Milky Way

The rigidity of othering is blown away, along with Asian stereotypes. Plus, a mixed reality celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto and a walk on the mild side

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa spotted filming in Cardiff less than 24 hours after King Charles III's Coronation Concert

New Time Lord Ncuti performed in Romeo and Juliet at the Coronation Concert alongside The Royal Shakespeare Company's Mei Mac

Wales Online

'Totoro' play boosts East Asian visibility on British stage

LONDON: Actors of East and Southeast Asian heritage have long remained in the shadows of British performing arts, competing for stereotypical or often token roles with few opportunities to grab the limelight.

Bangkok Post

The week in theatre: My Neighbour Totoro; Local Hero – review

A beloved Studio Ghibli anime is brought to magical life in Phelim McDermott’s new RSC production, while the 1983 film Local Hero finds fresh resonance

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From My Neighbour Totoro to Marvellous

A guide to the week’s theatre

The Independent UK

My Neighbour Totoro at the Barbican review: it’s easier to admire this Studio Ghibli adaptation than love it

This show transposes the off-key weirdness of the original, but the story could use more jeopardy, darkness and more of the monsters

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My Neighbour Totoro review – dazzling staging of the Studio Ghibli classic

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact

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