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Love’s Labour’s Lost review – paella, bullfighting and flamenco make Shakespeare’s farce a fiesta

Choreographer Carmen Igarza deserves to take a bow as spectacular dance and movement add passion to the seemingly unfinished play

The Guardian - UK

Love’s Labour’s Lost / Much Ado About Nothing review – breezy double bill brings out the best in both

Elegantly stitching the plays into two parts of the same continuing story, Tom Littler’s sunny al fresco productions play every possible tragicomic note

The Guardian - UK

The Rivals review – heady, flapper-ish revival is stylishly silly Christmas fun

Comedy’s upper-class antics are transposed to 1920s Bath and bring a crowd-pleasing mix of anarchic spirit and silliness, though it slackens occasionally

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The Rivals theatre review: Classic comedy revival is gorgeous but awkwardly updated

3/5 This 250th anniversary revival of Sheridan’s play transports it to the Jazz Age but doesn’t always make it swing

Evening Standard

Creditors at Orange Tree Theatre: 'the production just lies there, inert, on the stage'

2/5 Despite an excellent cast including Charles Dance, this Strindberg psychodrama fails to spark

Evening Standard

Creditors review – Charles Dance, Geraldine James and Nicholas Farrell get gasps and guffaws from Strindberg

Director Tom Littler finds the comedy in the Swedish dark tragedian’s play about how people use each other up in love and art

The Guardian - UK

Churchill in Moscow at the Orange Tree Theatre review: bursting with political playfulness

3/5 The ideas at work here is marred by a lack of believable characters

Evening Standard

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Twelfth Night review – Samuel West achieves greatness as Malvolio

As the petty tyrant cruelly duped by his household West leads a superb, tinsel-inflected take on Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy

The Guardian - UK

Twelfth Night at Orange Tree Theatre review: subtly radical, and impressively nuanced

4/5 Tom Littler’s 1940s staging of Shakespeare’s comedy might seem staid on the surface, but there’s a lot going on underneath

Evening Standard

Twelfth Night review – a classy, musical and seasonal feast. Play on

With its philosopher-fool character seated at a piano and central to the action, this sympathetically staged 1940s-set production is something of a revelation

The Guardian - UK

‘A 70-year-old skipping about pretending to be 20’: the new era of age-blind casting

Though Ian McKellen gave his Hamlet at the age of 82, older women rarely get the chance to play young characters. But with Imelda Staunton in Hello Dolly and Geraldine James as Rosalind, are things finally changing?

The Guardian - UK

She Stoops to Conquer at the Orange Tree Theatre review: a charming, starry Christmas package

Like too much champagne, this story of country bumpkins outwitting London swells is sparkling but confusing

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Operation Mincemeat; 4000 Miles; The Circle – review

SplitLip honour as well as spoof with their all-conquering espionage musical. Plus, Eileen Atkins at her most subtle, and a new twist on Somerset Maugham

The Guardian - UK

The Circle review – love, tears and tender truths when Jane Asher comes to call

Strong emotions rule in a candid and well-judged Somerset Maugham comedy twisting romantic fates across generations of squabbling society

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Hamlet review – Freddie Fox’s alcoholic prince goes to church

Fox is emotionally wrenching in Tom Littler’s inventive and streamlined production, which explores the play’s integral Christianity

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