stage
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Edinburgh fringe play Last Resort reimagines the notorious detention facility as a package holiday destination
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His show Made in Britain debunked myths about Muslims in the UK. As he returns to Edinburgh, Tez Ilyas talks about the cut and thrust of panel shows and why the fringe is like a freshers’ week for standups
brexit shorts
talking points
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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
pictures & video
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From Sara Pascoe’s new show to a strange evening with Martin Creed, via acrobats, Samuel Beckett and a wild girl from Borneo, here are the sights so far
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Bloom transforms St Andrew Square into an immersive environment of colour, sound and texture to kick off the international festival
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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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