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Jun 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Serena Davies
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Serena Davies
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Serena Davies
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Serena Davies
Opera singer Anna Steiger Credit: Rii Schroer Anna Steiger was put off acting by her parents, Rod Steiger and Claire Bloom. “I knew what a rotten, stinking profession acting can be,” she says.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ben Lawrence |Celia Walden |Serena Davies
Max Frisch is one of the most fascinating figures in 20th-century drama. He was not just a playwright, but a novelist and an architect, too, his work united by such themes as the responsibility of the individual in society and what we would now call toxic masculinity.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Celia Walden |Serena Davies |Marianka Swain
There can be few small, community theatres in the UK that are more vibrant and more innovative than Hope Mill Theatre in the Ancoats district of Manchester. This remarkable venue battles against the harsh economic realities currently facing the theatre sector to create work that is regularly path-breaking and often on a scale that is improbably large, both for its little stage and its tight budget.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Serena Davies |Marianka Swain |Kirsten Grant
Nor is there any rationale offered for the metamorphosis of Kate Hampson's Lady Capulet (who stands in plausibly for Juliet's father) from local grandee into a seeming gym instructor. More irritating still is the conundrum of why this Juliet (who is performed with great promise by Shalisha James-Davis) would be attracted to this Romeo.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Serena Davies |Marianka Swain |Kirsten Grant |Holly Williams
We were told this starry new play by Penelope Skinner - co-writer of recent BBC conman thriller The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies - was going to be about MeToo, but it turns out to be about coercive control. Disappointingly for such a powerful subject, the piece is largely schematic and morally obvious, but leavened by flashes of inspiration, in the main provided by a joyfully eccentric turn from Kristin Scott Thomas.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Serena Davies
OPINIONThe Eras Tour film has opened in UK cinemas, relieving parents from the guilt of having missed out on the live shows. But does it compare? I failed to buy my 13-year-old daughter Constance tickets for any of Taylor Swift’s run of concerts next year despite the fact that she and her friends seem to listen to no other music. The awful truth is that, faced with weeks of my life sat in virtual queues, I didn’t even try.
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Oct 14, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Serena Davies
The Eras Tour film has opened in UK cinemas, relieving parents from the guilt of having missed out on the live shows. But does it compare?
