Stage + Letters
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Brief letters: LipService Theatre | Channel 4’s mature audience | British geography | Flamin’ Nora lives on
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Letters: Kate Boulton feels shut out of performances where there is no mask-wearing due to Covid concerns. Plus a letter from Anthony Lawton
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Letters: Readers on the best cinemagoing experiences and the joys of an intermission
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Letter: Muhammed Raza Hussain is looking forward to seeing Tim Walker’s play Bloody Difficult Women, but is surprised that so few other productions are confronting recent political scandals
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Letter: Generations of older Germans at secondary schools have read Theodore Fontane’s Grete Minde as a set book, writes Harry Schneider
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Letters: Robin Jarvis and Michael Pyke disagree with Rhoda Koenig’s argument that the play is far more straightforward than critics make out
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Letters: Hamlet isn’t as mysterious a play as the critics make out, according to Rhoda Koenig
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Letter: Is the time not ripe for a new production of Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, asks Dr Jonathan Punt
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Letters: If the ethnicity or gender of the character drives the role then that ethnicity should be prioritised, writes Maureen Lipman
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Vanessa Redgrave writes: We became friends and colleagues when David Hare and the producer Scott Rudin invited me to take the solo part of Joan herself
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Brief letters: Must-see entertainment | Literary delights | Misheard prayers | Creme Eggs
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Richard Williams writes: It is a testament to Sher’s virtuoso performance that I was completely won over by it
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Letters: Michael Ratcliffe responds to an obituary of the lyricist and composer
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Francesca Shrapnel writes: Roger Michell had been able to go through the text in detail with Václav Havel, who was under surveillance in Prague
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Letters: My Fair Lady | Village incomers | Jeffrey Steele | Greenham Common | Ian Botham
Brief letters The grim reality of Shakespeare’s ideas