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Barbara Ferris obituary

Actor who began her career in ‘dolly bird’ roles and became the star of plays by Edward Bond and David Hare

The Guardian - UK

In The Seagull, Cate Blanchett and Thomas Ostermeier could make small details seismic

The Oscar winner stars in the German director’s production of the Chekhov classic where ‘everything is open to interpretation’

The Guardian - UK

Alan Bennett at 90: ‘What will people think? I don’t care any more’

In his 10th decade The History Boys writer is as prolific as ever with a war film in the works and a new sex-fuelled novella set in a home for the elderly. He talks about mourning Maggie Smith, turning down a knighthood and what he makes of Donald Trump

The Guardian - UK

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Top authors join trail of Devil in the Wilderness podcast real-life murder mystery

Michael Frayn and Blake Morrison help son of Christopher Wordsworth in attempt to unravel whether depression might have led Observer writer to kill

The Guardian - UK

Plays commissioned by lottery sounds bad, but why not? For us as writers, things can’t get much worse

A Colchester theatre is picking works out of a hat. In a defunded and exclusive sector, at least someone will get a chance, says presenter and writer Nick Ahad

The Guardian - UK

Brexit’s pint-sized ‘benefits’ are a measure of its failure

Wine in imperial measures, we are told, is ‘what leaving was all about’, while the UK struggles outside the single market

The Guardian - UK

From Joe Egg to Noises Off, Michael Blakemore was a superb craftsman of theatre

One of the great postwar theatre directors, Blakemore – who has died aged 95 – had a vast range and was a formidable writer

The Guardian - UK

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Michael Blakemore, venerable theatre director, dies aged 95

The double Tony-winning director staged acclaimed productions by Michael Frayn, Peter Nichols and many others in the West End and Broadway

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends; Noises Off; Imposter 22 – review

An all-star tribute to the acid genius of the late composer offers a terrific medley of hits, Michael Frayn’s clever farce also proves timeless, and seven neurodivergent actors put on a singular drama

The Guardian - UK

Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical columnist’s finest moments

Playwright and novelist Frayn wrote for the Guardian since 1957. Here’s a selection of his writing from the past 65 years, covering everything from the arrival of saunas to the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial

The Guardian - UK

Sir Michael Parkinson obituary

One of the great television interviewers who started out as a reporter on a local newspaper in his native Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

Peter Skipp obituary

Other lives: Translator who interpreted for the EU, Nato and several Bulgarian presidents

The Guardian - UK

Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn review – heartfelt pen portraits

The playwright’s evocative series of essays profiles some of the brightest figures he’s met in his life, from Alan Bennett and Bamber Gascoigne to childhood friends and first loves

The Guardian - UK

Michael Rudman obituary

Theatre director best known for his three major productions of Death of a Salesman, written by his hero Arthur Miller

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‘A newspaperman to his fingertips’: late Observer editor Donald Trelford remembered

Colleagues recall the former editor, who died last week – a consummate journalist who carried the flame of liberalism in an uncertain age

Evening Standard

Noises Off at Phoenix Theatre review: meticulously plotted and as blissfully funny as ever

This peerless farce-within-a-farce has lost none of its freshness

The Guardian - UK

Neal Ascherson at 90: ‘Journalism was easier in my time. You had more time to think’

The distinguished former Observer foreign correspondent reflects on an extraordinary life – beginning with a horrifying brush with a Luftwaffe machine gunner

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Noises Off review – Frayn’s exquisite farce-within-a-farce finds new humanity

Felicity Kendal, Tracy-Ann Oberman and especially Joseph Millson are comic gifts in this 40th anniversary version that fits our times almost too well

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The Guardian - UK

Noises Off: the farce masterclass that is truly revealing

Michael Frayn’s comedy is not just extremely funny but also acknowledges the fragile artifice of order – in theatre and the world beyond

Daily Mirror

New Tricks' Amanda Redman 'furious' at how women over 50 are treated in showbiz

Amanda Redman has shared her fury at the ageism and sexism that she feels is still prominent in showbusiness

Daily Mirror

Amanda Redman says Dennis Waterman's death from lung cancer 'knocked her sideways'

Amanda Redman and Dennis Waterman had known each other for 40 years and worked on huge BBC hit drama New Tricks together for a decade

The Guardian - UK

Shock ending: how the Costa book awards changed reading – and pitted husband against wife

After 50 years, the prize has been scrapped. How did it change Britain’s literary landscape? And what happened at the awards when Margaret Drabble was seated next to Theresa May?

The Guardian - UK

Noises Off review – unconvincing reboot of Frayn’s farce-within-a-farce

Despite the actors’ efforts and some wide-collared 1970s designs, Ben Occhipinti’s adaptation suffers from a lack of clarity

The Guardian - UK

Letters: Bamber Gascoigne obituary

Edward Mirzoeff writes: Michael Frayn once said to me of his Cambridge friend Bamber Gascoigne: “Beneath the surface charm is a heart of pure gold. He is one of the best, most morally good, people I know”

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