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CultureCritic | 23.August.2012 | 13:00
Thank God for that. The biblical Mystery Plays are still working their magic in York, centuries after they were first established...
The central characters are called Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, but it has nonetheless been cited the 20th century's best musical. The Barbican's new production of Carousel brings out its darker themes brilliantly, according to the critics...
Some find ‘madcap' hard to swallow, let alone write, but Ned Beauman makes a wonderfully witty go of it with his Booker longlisted novel about a 1930s German set designer...
Ian McEwan fans will enjoy this confounding espionage thriller, set during the Cold War...
Helping the case against remakes is the new Total Recall (pictured below) which is apparently worse without Arnold Schwarzenegger in it. Imagine....
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87% Merrily We Roll Along 86% Mess 83% The Weir 82% Othello 82% The Seagull 81% The Audience 80% As You Like It 80% The Hothouse 76% The Pajama Game 75% Passion Play 72% Peter and Alice 68% Children of the Sun 55% Hamlet -
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