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Beverly would definitely be on Instagram today showing off her home and herself! Director Nadia Fall joins us to explore Mike Leigh's period classic, Abigail's Party: theplaypodcast.com/084-abigails-p… Tamzin Outhwaite tamzin outhwaite Stratford East 📷Mark Senior

A fantastic watch. Writer Duncan Macmillan and director Jeremy Herrin joined us to talk about the play: theplaypodcast.com/082-people-pla… @SleeveNotes Jeremy Herrin

I have resisted retweeting/ replying to messages & reviews but we only have 7 performances left and I will miss this so much. There are very few tickets left but there are some. Get in asap. Thank you Fiona Hughes 🙏

It always feels like an illicit pleasure going to a weekday matinee! Almeida Theatre

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Second visit this week to Almeida Theatre. Lucky me!

"In almost every moment you are being asked, is this the real thing?" Mark Lawson on Tom Stoppard's dazzling exploration of love, literature and politics in our new episode: theplaypodcast.com/085-the-real-t… James McArdle and Bel Powley The Old Vic 📷Manuel Harlan

What an impressive and important play this is. Hansberry was only 29 when she wrote it in 1959, and it still packs a timely punch in its universal portrait of hopes and dreams and the terrible prejudices of poverty and race. Lyric Hammersmith Theatre Tinuke Craig

What thoughtful analysis from a fabulous panel on the challenge and value of reviving post-war plays such as Look Back in Anger and Roots. There's still a chance to see these two intelligent revivals Almeida Theatre Dan Rebellato is on Bluesky Michael Billington Atri Banerjee Diyan Zora

"It's only when Henry has his heart broken that he discovers what love really is". Mark Lawson on Henry's romantic education in The Real Thing in our new episode: theplaypodcast.com/085-the-real-t… James McArdle The Old Vic

The great Roy Williams @royboywilliams joins me to talk about his and Clint Dyer 's searing state-of-the-nation trilogy Death of England: theplaypodcast.com/086-death-of-e… @sohoplace National Theatre

"We're not asking you to like him, just to understand him." @royboywilliams on the tortured Michael who rages at us in part 1 of Death of England: theplaypodcast.com/086-death-of-e… THOMAS COOMBES @sohoplace

"You may sound like us, act like us, but you will never be one of us." The heartbreaking racism that excludes Delroy from his own country. @royboywilliams talks about this reality in his and Clint Dyer 's Death of England theplaypodcast.com/086-death-of-e… Paapa Essiedu | Severus Snape 📷Helen Murray

Does going to a matinee of The Forsyte Saga betray my age? Maybe so, but it’s a cracking production: wonderful cast, brilliant storytelling, fluently staged, utterly gripping. Park Theatre

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Here's me speaking about Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ThePlayPodcast which takes a deep dive into a single play per episode. I discovered it last year and am now making my way through its entire back catalogue. Listen here: theplaypodcast.com

If you watch one thing today make it this remarkable speech by an independent French senator. It captures the moment Claude Malhuret