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Mostly Men at Edinburgh
“But when is it the MEN’s Edinburgh International Festival?”
Lissy Lovett asks the important questions.
Oops, it looks like you’ve created an infinite loop
Tim Minchin’s musical version of Groundhog Day opened at the Old Vic this week. Viv Wilby gets stuck in Punxsutawney
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Shakin’ All Over
With the Horrible Historians’ Bill already in cinemas, and Justin Kurzel’s grand guignol Macbeth coming this weekend, we asked our contributors to tell us about their own memorable experiences with filmed adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. Enter Mr Moth, pursued by a… Moth-eating bear.
Six Plays In Search Of An Audience
Lissy Lovett and Blake Backlash have some theatre recommendations for you from this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Mostly MIFfy 2015
The Manchester International Festival is an 18 day celebration of the best new artistic work from around the world. Here’s what Spank The Monkey saw there during two of those days.
The Ruling Class
Lissy Lovett watches a play about privilege and society (from the cheap seats).
Nothing to declare
Niall Anderson watches Al Pacino deconstruct Oscar Wilde’s most difficult play, and himself
Bid the players make haste
Lissy Lovett went to Manchester to see Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Hamlet with Maxine Peake, and is really glad she did.
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Words, Words, Words
Lissy Lovett kicks off her week of editing Mostly Film with a post about her day job, theatre captioning.
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