brexit shorts
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Comedian’s use of the P-word was designed to show how attitudes have changed – but standups pushing boundaries don’t have the right to be offensive
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Lou Conran terminated her pregnancy after five months when she discovered her baby would not survive outside the womb. Now, she is telling her story at the Edinburgh fringe
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The standup and podcaster on the things that make her laugh the most, from Sunil Patel to Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Poet, dramatist, visionary and pamphleteer whose muse was fuelled by a witty and beautiful anger
pictures & video
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Hacktivists in ball pools, teenagers riding unicorns and a world powered by actors on bikes … Chloe Lamford’s playful sets take audiences by surprise. She explains how she creates them
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Northern Broadsides’ ‘dark, austere and genuinely disturbing’ production of Richard III is staged in Hull this month as the company celebrates its 25th birthday. Its founder and artistic director Barrie Rutter revisits some of the theatre company’s greatest hits
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The biblical sorceress dances across two of Britain’s stages this summer, in shows at the National and the RSC. Explore past versions of the story
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A new production of Alan Bennett’s Forty Years On has Richard Wilson playing the headmaster. Take a look at theatre’s best school staff through the years
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Twenty-five years after it was first staged in London, Tony Kushner’s inventive play about the Aids crisis is back. The cast includes Nathan Lane, Andrew Garfield, Russell Tovey and Denise Gough
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Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce and director Carl Hunter reimagine Shakespeare’s late tragedy in an otherwordly film set amongst the statues of Antony Gormley’s installation Another Place on Crosby beach in Liverpool
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