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Summer 1954 review – Rattigan double-bill is a moving slice of British social history

Two one-act plays explore mid-century loneliness, exclusion and sexuality in a fine production starring Nathaniel Parker and a scene-stealing Siân Phillips

The Guardian - UK

National Theatre appoints Indhu Rubasingham as first female director

She succeeds Rufus Norris, under whose leadership the theatre enjoyed its biggest audiences

The Independent UK

Hamnet at the Garrick Theatre review: a solid, elegant take on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestseller

Initially slow, the show about Shakespeare and his family weaves a beguiling narrative web around the creation of life and art

Evening Standard

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Hamnet star Madeleine Mantock: ‘Theatre is not my comfort zone’

The actor on playing William Shakespeare’s wife, and making her West End debut opposite Jennifer Saunders

Evening Standard

The week in theatre: Hamnet; You Bury Me; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness – review

Shakespeare’s wife moves centre stage in Lolita Chakrabarti’s pivotal adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, while urgent productions from two small London theatres tackle recent history head on

The Guardian - UK

Hamnet review – slick adaptation captures Shakespeare’s horrified unravelling

Lolita Chakrabarti’s staging of Maggie O’Farrell’s moving novel about the death of the playwright’s son – and his resurrection in Hamlet – is powerfully played, with the occasional cheesy line

The Guardian - UK

Review: ‘Life of Pi’ on Broadway has adventure aplenty but leaves behind the heart of the story

NEW YORK — Oceans — let alone lethal Bengal tigers on lifeboats — are usually a nightmare for Broadway; just look at the trouble Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” had in going under the sea. But in the 2019 stage version of “Life of Pi,” which was scripted by Lolita Chakrabarti,…

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Hamnet on stage: Maggie O’Farrell and Lolita Chakrabarti on adapting the hit novel for the RSC

O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare losing his young son to the plague struck a powerful chord in lockdown. She and Chakrabarti discuss class, place and loss in their theatre adaptation

The Guardian - UK

Lowry Theatre announces Life of Pi will be big Christmas 2023 show

It is a magical retelling of the best-selling novel with animals including a life-sized Bengal Tiger brought to life on stage

Manchester Evening News

RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet

Adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April

The Guardian - UK

Acting couple plan champagne celebration after both collected royal honours

Adrian Lester and his wife Lolita Chakrabarti collected the honours at Windsor Castle.

The Independent UK

Joe Wicks to receive royal honours after donations to NHS and Children in Need

The fitness guru broadcast free live workouts for months throughout the pandemic and donated proceeds from sales of his fitness videos to NHS.

Daily Record

Fitness guru Joe Wicks to receive honour at Windsor Castle

The celebrity coach will be honoured for his services to fitness and charity in the UK and abroad

Evening Standard

Fitness guru Joe Wicks to receive honours at Windsor Castle

The celebrity coach will be honoured for his services to fitness as well as charity in the UK and abroad.

The Independent UK

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