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Michael Coveney: Mike Leigh repeats himself at big birthday bash WOS
25 February 2013
I spent Saturday night dressed as Mike Leigh in a community hall in Stoke Newington. And I wasn't the only one. In fact, there were about 150 Mike Leighs, men and women, all kitted out in fake wigs an....
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Michael Coveney: Chichester counts the musical cost in Dear World WOS
22 February 2013
Like the RSC and the Globe before them, Chichester Festival Theatre has come up just £1m short of its fundraising target. So, having invited a group of journalists to the Ivy for breakfast yeste....
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Michael Coveney: Medea and Marlowe make merry hell WOS
19 February 2013
Having presented Rameau's Castor and Pollux in a daring production last year, ENO step even deeper into French baroque opera with an audacious British premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentiers's Me....
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Michael Coveney: Shimmering stars strike gold at the Palace WOS
18 February 2013
"Hardly a tune to savour all night," said Tim Minchin, quoting back my review of Matilda while greeting me cheerily as he arrived in the stalls bar of the Palace Theatre last night for the pre-show re....
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Michael Coveney: Barbican shows Surreal is so real WOS
15 February 2013
By the time word gets out on the excellence of the visiting production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros from Paris at the Barbican - the best onstage bestiary I've ever seen, and that includes War Horse - the ....
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Michael Coveney: Snow greets Northern Broadsides in Halifax WOS
13 February 2013
I am writing this in a grey stone, medieval farm house in the Shibden Valley, just outside Halifax, looking through the window at a steady blizzard of snow. I've just helped my host, Geoff Horrock....
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Michael Coveney: Gay's the Word but Gill's the curse WOS
11 February 2013
"Gay's the word, Ivor, and gay is how we shall always remember you," Noel Coward telegrammed on hearing of the death of Ivor Novello aged 58 in 1951. The word "gay" had long acquired an underground ....
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Michael Coveney: Going for Goold at the Almeida WOS
8 February 2013
Will Rupert Goold ever run the RSC or the National? That question has often been asked since he emerged as a producer of flair and a director of brilliance at Northampton over a decade ago. But now,....
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Michael Coveney: Socialising with strangers in the stalls WOS
6 February 2013
"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows," says Trinculo as he dives for shelter in The Tempest. In the theatre, you never know who you might be sitting next to. Especially at a first night, an....
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Michael Coveney: Propeller in Norwich, Shogun in the Wells WOS
4 February 2013
It is fifteen years since the late Jill Fraser presented the first Propeller productions at the Watermill in Newbury, so it was touchingly appropriate that the first bursary awarded in her memory (sup....
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