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Jodie Comer, a gen-Z Elle Woods and a giant swimming pool: The best theatre of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s theatre critics have chosen their top stage shows of 2022, a year in which fresh new writing and charming musicals reigned supreme

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Mandela; Kerry Jackson – review

Rose Ayling-Ellis stars in a fresh As You Like It; a Mandela musical can’t do the great man justice; and April De Angelis slips into two dimensions

The Guardian - UK

Alice in Wonderland review – Carroll’s classic goes down the Victoria line

Poltergeist theatre company send Alice into the underground in this offbeat adaptation with tube-inspired nonsense language

The Guardian - UK

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Mandela review – a Madiba musical with fridge-magnet philosophy

A strong cast cannot conceal the thinness of this superficial account of South Africa’s great liberator

The Guardian - UK

Michael Luwoye on playing Mandela at the Young Vic, his hit turn in Hamilton and what it means to be free

The actor knew the iconic ideal of the great South African leader, but is excited to show his more human side on stage

Evening Standard

Baghdaddy review – arresting and absurd take on war’s trauma

A British Iraqi and her father re-enact his wartime memories under the direction of three ghoulish clowns in a daring if uneven debut

The Guardian - UK

Man, 24, told he had six months to live after going to doctors with double vision

Doctors discovered a 'brain tumour the size of a tennis ball' after Ashley Terry went to A&E

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'I went to A&E expecting a prescription but they told me I had a brain tumour the size of a tennis ball'

Doctors told Ashley Terry he'd only have six months to live without treatment

Wales Online

Accidental Death of an Anarchist review – a riotous satirical farce brought bang up to date

Tom Basden’s new adaptation of the Italian classic brings in dodgy selfies, WhatsApp groups and the lord chief justice in a furious but funny broadside against police malpractice

The Guardian - UK

Antigone review – a poetic tragedy about modern British Muslim life

Inua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their own communities

The Guardian - UK

Home Office policies take centre stage in modern-day Antigone adaptation

Inua Ellams adaptation nods to Shamima Begum, stop and search, Prevent programme and police surveillance

The Guardian - UK

The Week on Stage: From I, Joan to Horse Play

Horse-Play at Shakespeare’s Globe and I, Joan at Riverside studios take us from a sex dungeon to 15th-century France

The Independent UK

I, Joan review: Funny, fierce non-binary Joan of Arc proves sceptics wrong

The Globe’s much-publicised production of Charlie Josephine’s new play is no gender studies lecture but a rousing piece of theatre

The Independent UK

Charlie Josephine: why making Joan of Arc non-binary in a new Shakespeare’s Globe play is a joyful act

I, Joan has become the year’s most controversial play before it has even opened. There’s no need for alarm, says its writer

Evening Standard

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Writer Vinay Patel on sending Chekhov into space: “I feel I’ve earned taking a swing”

Vinay Patel was seven years old when he first attempted to put an epic science-fiction story on stage. Sadly for the acclaimed playwright and screenwriter, he spent so much time putting up the elaborate tinfoil set during the school assembly that his allotted time ran out and he was unceremoniously…

The Guardian - UK

The Trials review – a teenage jury call their climate-ruining elders to account

The ‘dinosaur’ generation is put on trial in Dawn King’s near-future new play, graced by some nicely nuanced performances from its youthful cast

The Guardian - UK

The Trials review – tomorrow’s children hold us to account for climate crimes

In a near-future world on fire, a jury of 12 young people listen to testimony from the ‘dinosaur’ generation

The Guardian - UK

Twelve angry children: young jurors call adults to account for climate crisis in The Trials

Dawn King’s new play at the Donmar imagines a reckoning for environmental chaos, presided over by the kids who inherit the mess. We join the writer and cast, including stars of Heartstopper, in rehearsal

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The Guardian - UK

Francesca Martinez: ‘It’s hard living in a world that can’t handle difference’

The self-described ‘wobbly’ comedian is returning to her first love, acting, with a hard-hitting play about the collision of disability and austerity

The Guardian - UK

Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads review – a burning portrait of racism in Britain

Two decades since the debut of Roy Williams’s play set in a pub during an England v Germany World Cup qualifier, the script is as hot as ever

Evening Standard

Milli Bhatia on how raving and activism influence her work and directing Chasing Hares at the Young Vic

One of London’s most exciting directors on her new show, how she seeks to leave audiences thrilled and shaken, and why now is an exciting moment for South Asian stories on stage

The Guardian - UK

‘Words and stories can be dangerous’: director Milli Bhatia and writer Sonali Bhattacharyya

Bhattacharyya’s play Chasing Hares uses folk theatre to depict a trade union dispute in West Bengal. ‘South Asian artists have always been here – but now it’s our time,’ Bhatia says

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: Mavra/Pierrot lunaire; LSO/ Tilson Thomas; Gabrieli/ McCreesh

Covent Garden’s future stars make the most of a tricky double bill

The Guardian - UK

The House of Shades review – Anne-Marie Duff gives a toxic tour de force

Beth Steel’s ambitious new play follows the Webster family over decades, with Duff as a thwarted singer

The Guardian - UK

Mavra/Pierrot Lunaire review – blancmanges, bin bags and drag as double bill probes gender

The Royal Opera’s unusual pairing of two modernist works boasts an outstanding lead in Alexandra Lowe as Pierrot Lunaire, and plenty of imaginative touches elsewhere

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