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The Flemish theatre run by Michael De Cock has its own ‘city dramaturg’, functions like a town square and stages shows that reflect a vibrant capital, says the dynamic artistic director

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The Jamaican poet on his new collection about West Indian soldiers in the first world war, diving into the messiness of language, and the book he rereads every autumn

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Player Kings will see parts one and two of Shakespeare's 13th century historical drama compacted into one exhilarating new play

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This is the first time a Mongolian play has ever been exported outside of the country

Recent news that restorers had uncovered the image of a Gothic-looking demon in a late work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) seems fitting for these long, dark evenings. The sinister face hovers above the head of a dying clergyman in The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, painted in 1789.