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Entertainment

Seven days on stage

Tamara Rojo and Cuban Carreño
Cuba's cultural exchange with the Royal Ballet was the talk of the dance world this week, as the company was invited to Havana for five days of performances. Superstar dancer Carlos Acosta helped put the deal together. Here, Tamara Rojo and Cuban Yoel Carreño perform at a show honouring the director of the National Ballet of Cuba, Alicia Alonso Photograph: Alejandro Ernesto/EPA
A performer from the English National Ballet School rehearses for a show at Peacock theatre
Meanwhile, students at the English National Ballet School rehearsed for their end-of-year show at London's Peacock theatre Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
The Browning Version by the Peter Hall Company at Theatre Royal, Bath
It was a good week for theatre veterans. At the Theatre Royal in Bath, the Peter Hall Company presented The Browning Version with Peter Bowles as a despised teacher. Bowles is also starring in the same theatre's production of Anton Chekhov's Swansong, which pales in comparison, wrote Michael Billington Photograph: Tristram Kenton
The Grapes of Wrath at Chichester Festival theatre
Chichester Festival theatre got a dustbowl makeover this week for the Depression-era drama The Grapes of Wrath, better known as a book by John Steinbeck and a film by John Ford. Christopher Timothy takes the lead role as the beleaguered patriarch of a farming family Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Mercy Ojelade (Asha) and Amber Agar (Mariam) in The Container outside the Young Vic
From Steinbeck's wide open spaces to the claustrophobic horror of an illegal journey to the UK. Outside the Young Vic, The Container invites theatregoers inside a container to recreate the nightmarish experience of five migrants journeying across the border Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook in Jerusalem at the Royal Court
Jez Butterworth kicked off his career with Mojo at the Royal Court in 1995. Now he's back with a comedy, Jerusalem, starring Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook. Michael Billington gave it four stars: 'The triumph belongs to Rylance for perfectly embodying Butterworth's vision of a vanished demonic magic' Photograph: Tristram Kenton
Eric Elmosnino and Jeanne Moreau in The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness
Finally, the Avignon festival was graced with an appearance by a grande dame of stage and screen, Jeanne Moreau. The French star performed in a quarry alongside Eric Elmosnino in The War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness Photograph: Gerard Julien/AFP/Getty Images
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