THEATRE REVIEW: Mary Stuart starring Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams

WORTH A LOOK?: ***

WHERE: Almeida

WHEN: 9/12, runs to 21/1/17

‘A majority does not mean a thing is always in the right’. There aren’t many laughs in this but it’s a moment of hilarity for this north London audience.

  • Read on for reasons including why this insight from Elizabeth I advisor Lord Talbot sparked laughter

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THEATRE REVIEW: Doctor Faustus

WORTH A LOOK?: **

WHERE: Barbican

WHEN: 19/9, runs to 1/10

We caught Jamie Lloyd’s West End take on Christopher Marlowe’s classic starring Game Of Thrones’ Kit Harrington less than five months ago.

  • Read on for how the Royal Shakespeare Company’s take on Doctor Faustus differed from Jamie Lloyd’s

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THEATRE REVIEW: 1984

WORTH A LOOK?: ****

WHERE: Playhouse Theatre

WHEN: 17/6 runs to 29/10

Robert Icke won the 2016 best director Olivier for Oresteia and there’s much from that in this 2014 Almeida production which is back in the West End for another run.

  • Read on for the reasons why this George Orwell literary classic works on stage

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