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'Can we ever truly sever ties with our past?' - Suranne Jones teases unfinished business as Doctor Foster returns for a final series

'There’s still secrets, betrayals, vengeance and perhaps one last dinner party…' - the BBC confirm Doctor Foster will return more than 10 years since its last series

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Suranne Jones: It’s ‘exciting’ to return as Doctor Foster

Filming on the third series of the hit BBC drama is due to begin later this spring, with Bertie Carvel and Tom Taylor also returning to their roles.

Evening Standard

Juniper Blood review – middle-class urbanites up sticks in search for new pastoral idyll

Mike Bartlett’s invigorating play becomes a state-of-the-world drama about whether it is possible to live responsibly in our age of toxic capitalism

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Juniper Blood at the Donmar Warehouse review: a poor retread of Mike Bartlett's better work

2/5 The play feels thin and undercooked, the plot twists and emotional revelations unearned

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Unicorn at the Garrick Theatre review: is three the magic number in bed?

4/5 Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan and Erin Doherty supercharge this comedy about an older couple who invite a younger woman into their bed

Evening Standard

Unicorn review – Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan’s throuple comedy doesn’t catch fire

There are a few zingy lines but this threesome play co-starring Erin Doherty is lots of talk and no action – and peculiarly devoid of passion

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James Graham unveils AI comedy at ‘greatest hits’ gala for Paines Plough

Playwrights and actors paid homage to the small but mighty UK theatre company that nurtured them, as part of a fundraising initiative for new writers

The Guardian - UK

Cock review: love lies bleeding in Mike Bartlett’s bitter romantic triangle

In a lively revival of this 2009 tussle between love and identity, its barbed verbal sparring overcomes the slightly dated sexual dynamics

The Guardian - UK

Doctor Foster star Bertie Carvel drops big hint popular BBC drama could make a return

Doctor Foster drew in huge audiences over its two series, which aired in 20115 and 2017 so fans will undoubtedly be pleased to hear the BBC show could be making a comeback

Daily Mirror

From King Charles III to King Lear: what theatre tells us about taking the throne

Mike Bartlett’s 2014 play anticipated a constitutional crisis, while playwrights including Shakespeare and Chekhov have shown how traumatic a transfer of power can be

The Guardian - UK

‘Future history’: how Charles III first trod the boards of London stage

Playwright Mike Bartlett says his drama King Charles III, which premiered in 2014, included some uncanny predictions

The Guardian - UK

‘What happened to Free Willy?’ Cock ticket prices drop after shock at £400 seats

‘Dynamic pricing’ sees ticket costs fluctuate wildly for the acclaimed production’s final performances in the West End

The Guardian - UK

Cock theatre producer Chris Harper explains why title of play is absent from TfL adverts

Title of Mike Bartlett play doesn’t feature on the advertising materials featured on London’s transport network

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The week in theatre: Punchdrunk: The Burnt City; Scandaltown

The immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy

The Independent UK

Trump gets a bold Shakespearean twist in new play 'The 47th'

A play that offers an audaciously Shakespearean take on recent and future U.S. politics is running at London's Old Vic theater

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: The Great Middlemarch Mystery; The 47th; For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide…

A site-specific quest gets to the heart of George Eliot’s novel; Mike Bartlett makes a Shakespearean tragedy of Trump; and six young black men find full expression in Ryan Calais Cameron’s eloquent new play

The Guardian - UK

Scandaltown review – smut and silliness in modern Restoration comedy

Mike Bartlett’s rambunctious capers with types including Lady Susan Climber and Matt Eton MP are great fun if not exactly stinging satire

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The Independent UK

Scandaltown review: Mike Bartlett’s contemporary Restoration play is a clutter of a parody

Beyond packing as many contemporary cultural references into his script as possible, the playwright’s satire about the rich and powerful is underachieving

Evening Standard

Scandaltown at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Mike Bartlett’s social pastiche is showy but insubstantial

This contemporary Restoration comedy is one of Bartlett’s sketchier works

Evening Standard

The 47th, Old Vic review: A hideously transformative turn from Bertie Carvel as Trump

Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse drama about Trump running for president (again) is eloquent and clever, but has surprisingly little to say

The Guardian - UK

The 47th review – Bertie Carvel is devilishly good but this Trumpian satire feels too soon

Mike Bartlett’s script turns US politics into Shakepearean comedy but falls oddly flat despite magnetising performances

The Independent UK

Lydia Wilson: ‘People slightly take the brakes off their misogyny when they talk about Ivanka Trump’

Eight years after playing Kate Middleton in a ‘future history’ play, the British actor is now playing Donald Trump’s ‘ambiguous’ daughter Ivanka in another. She speaks to Isobel Lewis about offensive casting, disgusted audiences, and why theatre actors need to get their hands dirty

Daily Mirror

Taron Egerton quits West End show due to 'personal reasons' after fainting on stage

Taron Egerton had been starring alongside Bridgerton's Jonathan Bailey in the West End revival of Cock but show bosses announced on Saturday he has stepped down

The Guardian - UK

‘I get a chill’: Bertie Carvel on exploring the human side of Donald Trump

Of all the baddies Carvel has portrayed on stage and screen, this may be his most challenging yet. He reveals what lies beneath the bombast of The Donald

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