FIVE BEST PLAYS
Independent, The (London), May 8, 2008
Small Change
(Donmar Warehouse, london)
Cracking revival by Peter Gill of his 1976 play about two working- class boys struggling to extricate themselves from the apron strings of their domineering mothers.
(08700 606 624) to 31 May
One Step Forward... One Step Back
(Liverpool cathedral)
Dreamthinkspeak's version of Dante's Paradiso transposes its imagined journey from Hell to Paradise to the nooks, crannies and galleries of the cathedral.
(08448 000 400) to Sat
Major Barbara
(NT: Olivier, London)
Nicholas Hytner's incisive revival revels in the argumentative energy of Shaw's satirical drama. Simon Russell Beale stars.
(020-7452 3000) to 15 May
Brief Encounter
(Cineworld Haymarket, LONDON)
Kneehigh's highly imaginative mixed-media adaptation of the classic movie is an artful straddling of stage and screen.
(08712 301 562) to 21 Sept
The City
(ROYAL COURT, LONDON)
Martin Crimp, a master at creating cryptic unease, here questions the whole idea of authorial control, in a drama about urban life starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Hattie Morahan.
(020-7565 5000) to 7 Jun
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