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Chasing Hares at the Young Vic review: Compelling and timely, if a little on the nose

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s new play is not subtle but has much to say and paints a vivid picture of Kolkata life

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

Evening Standard

‘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

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Desmond McNamara obituary

Other lives: Actor who worked on stage with the Young Vic, National and RSC, and was a familiar face on TV

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Oklahoma!; Unchain Me; House of Ife

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first musical is roughed up; dreamthinkspeak amble around Brighton; and a first for Amharic on the British stage?

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Fish on his dark new Oklahoma!: ‘We’re trying to deal with violence, injustice, and community’

The New York theatre director and actors Arthur Darvill, Anoushka Lucas and Patrick Vaill talk to Sarah Crompton about turning the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic into the most challenging version ever, and finding the truth of it in this moment for the London stage

The Independent UK

The Young Vic announces Nelson Mandela musical as part of new season

The production promises to tell the story “of Mandela the man and Mandela the movement”

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Premiere of Mandela musical to be flagship for Young Vic in 2022

Theatre’s chief hopes production gives younger people understanding of the price paid by radicals in the past

The Guardian - UK

The Olivier Awards nominees, performances and air time

Anything Goes and Life of Pi are among this years performances

Liverpool Echo

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole

The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history

The Guardian - UK

Denise Coffey obituary

Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheek

The Guardian - UK

The Collaboration review: Paul Bettany is a neurotic Andy Warhol in this fantastically enjoyable play

Anthony McCarten’s Young Vic pacy production is an exercise in giving the audience what they want

The Independent UK

The Collaboration at the Young Vic: the story behind Warhol and Basquiat’s game of art

Just how did two of New York’s most fêted - but wildly different - artists end up collaborating, and why?

Evening Standard

Conundrum review: A frustratingly undersketched look at prejudice and failure

Anthony Ofoegbu takes on the role of both energetic schoolboy and brow-beaten adult with impressive nimbleness in this swirling, repetitive Young Vic production

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Conundrum review – intense existential crisis gets lost in abstraction

Anthony Ofoegbu portrays a man at the end of his tether, but this play gives frustratingly few clues as to how he got there

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