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Theatre
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie theatre review
The National Theatre of Scotland has premiered a darker adaptation of Muriel Spark’s *The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie*, emphasizing the protagonist's fascist sympathies and…
Hitting the high notes opera review
Opera North has staged its first performance of Tchaikovsky’s *Eugene Onegin* in 25 years, presenting the opera in Russian and relocating the setting to a…
Far-right fury poses tricky ethical question
A new theater production set in a near-future Portugal depicts a family kidnapping and killing a fascist politician to protest rising far-right authoritarianism. The play…
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists theatre review
Tiago Rodrigues’s play *Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists* explores the cycle of political violence through a surreal, episodic narrative focused on a family’s…
This will float your boat: Disco songs and farting puppet enliven classic tale
A new theatrical adaptation of *Three Men in a Boat* by Al Smith condenses the classic tale into a lively one-week river journey from Kingston…