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The week in pictures: 19 – 25 August

Mo Farah, Mark Gatiss and a host of opening nights lead our top pics for the week

Alex Wood

25 August 2017

Mo Farah made a mo-mentous trip to Motown the Musical

Joe Orton's Loot celebrated its press night

We’ve woken up to from @WhatsOnStage for @JoeOrtonLoot today after a rip-roaring press night with these lovely people last night! pic.twitter.com/YcYbzpsD22

— Park Theatre (@ParkTheatre) August 24, 2017

The Toxic Avenger went for a spooky cycle across Edinburgh…

#Toxie was having far to much fun reporting this morning with @WeAreSTV!! #OnAir #gothiseyeonyou! pic.twitter.com/JyQbaY2vcR

— The Toxic Avenger (@ToxicAvengerUK) August 23, 2017

On #RickshawRides #EdFest17 #STV2 I meet Toxie from @ToxicAvengerUK! @WeAreSTV2 @MarkyWAnderson @ThePleasance @KevinWilsonPR #edfringe pic.twitter.com/D7LWGN3Ih2

— George Ward (@MrGeorgeWard) August 23, 2017

…while another star returns to his former haunt

Very excited to be retuning to Edinburgh tomorrow twenty years on from this! Happy days indeed. pic.twitter.com/BIEJPUTChP

— Mark Gatiss (@Markgatiss) August 25, 2017

Team Boudica had fun in rehearsals

☀️ Good Morning Shakespeare Lovers. Today TEAM BOUDICA are taking over The Globe’s Instagram Story. . . Stay tuned for behind the scene photos and videos from our fourth week of rehearsals, and get to meet some of the cast and creatives on Team Boudica. ⚔️ . . If you have any questions for Team Boudica please comment below are we will try and answer them. . . Have a great day Britons (aka Boudica’s gang). . . #boudicatakeover #shakespearesglobe #boudica #shakespeare #teamboudica #roman #briton #history #girlpower #shakespeareglobetrust #swordfighting #rehearsals #behindthescenes #rehearsalroom #london #londonbridge

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Just released on Facebook, beautiful #Boudica costume design sketches by @TomPiperDesign: https://t.co/w5HdvyuwpM pic.twitter.com/QsAZ67gsD4

— Shakespeare’s Globe (@The_Globe) August 25, 2017

…as did the cast of another Conquest play

Take a look at the rehearsal photographs from @ChichesterFT‘s first “in-the-round” production #TheNormanConquests https://t.co/HKcUIWfXiq pic.twitter.com/gm6tN8oeg7

— Chichester Theatre (@ChichesterFT) August 21, 2017

The cast of Knives and Hens celebrated opening night

Crazy for You kick off their national tour….

Brilliant opening night @TRPlymouth! @carolineflack1 was looking fabulous as Irene Roth! #CrazyForYou pic.twitter.com/x69fGYq5KO

— Crazy For You (@crazyforyoutour) August 18, 2017

We sneaked into the auditorium last week to watch the get in for the @crazyforyoutour set! #ThrowbackThursday #behindthescenes pic.twitter.com/ThPCPlGJML

— TheatreRoyalPlymouth (@TRPlymouth) August 24, 2017