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The Rat Trap at the Park Theatre: a must-see for Noel Coward completists

3/5 Bill Rosenfield has finessed Noel Coward’s teenage play, where radical social ideas bubble beneath brittle humour

Evening Standard

Fallen Angels at the Menier Chocolate Factory review: unapologetically horny

3/5 This Noel Coward revival feels almost like a production that holds the play in too much reverence

Evening Standard

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on making ageing ‘sexy’

The interior designer tells Lisa Salmon that being realistic about what you can do as you age means you can grow old sensibly and disgracefully.

The Independent UK

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Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history

Rodney Hall’s Vortex is the 13th novel in a long and distinguished career that includes two Miles Franklin Literary Awards for his earlier novels Just Relations (1982) and The Grisly Wife (1994). It is a historical novel, but with a particular sense of history in mind.

The Conversation

Private Lives at Ambassadors Theatre review – Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge on consummate form

Veiled in comedy, the play discusses religion, morality and mortality

Evening Standard

Five things you can do this weekend

Amadeus, Hay Fever and cabaret are happening.

The Canberra Times

Phoebe Waller-Bridge shares the explicit technique she learnt to cure stage fright

Actor looked back on a time when she needed a quick way to get rid of stage fright

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Private Lives review: Dark, uptight Coward revival isn’t as revelatory as it thinks

Rachael Stirling and Stephen Mangan play the sparring ex-lovers in a production that emphasises domestic violence

The Independent UK

Private Lives at the Donmar review: despite Mangan and Stirling this largely joyless revival fails to spark

This show was clearly planned as a crowd-pleaser, a reappraisal of a classic and a star vehicle, but it doesn’t fully satisfy on any of those counts

Evening Standard

Lawrence of Arabia at 60: a dazzling spectacle with complexity under the sand

David Lean’s epic is still an astonishing visual achievement but there are far richer and darker themes at play

The Guardian - US

Bard in the Botanics sparkles with take on classic Greek tragedy

HERE in Scotland, we can tend to be too modest about our local talent. Glasgow-based actor Nicole Cooper is a case in point.

The National (Scotland)

Dumfries Theatre Royal curtain set to open on Guild of Players' new show

The homegrown thespians are putting the finishing touches to their production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit

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