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Theatre: Paul Bailey reviews Allan Bennett's Allelujah! and the Lehman Trilogy
Arts | By Paul Bailey

Theatre: Paul Bailey reviews Allan Bennett's Allelujah! and the Lehman Trilogy

Alan Bennett’s Allelujah!, at the Bridge Theatre, is set in a cradle-to-grave hospital in the north of England called the Bethlehem. It runs for two-and-a-half hours and has a cast of 25, some of whom are required to do little more than join in the singalongs that frequently interrupt the action.
Theatre
Arts | By Paul Bailey

Theatre

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Exhibitions: Prized Possessions at the Holburne Museum, Bath
Arts | By Huon Mallalileu

Exhibitions: Prized Possessions at the Holburne Museum, Bath

Until the 16th September
Theatre: Mood Music and Absolute Hell, reviewed by Paul Bailey
Arts | By Paul Bailey

Theatre: Mood Music and Absolute Hell, reviewed by Paul Bailey

​Poor Rodney Ackland. When his play The Pink Room was staged at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1952, the London critics savaged it. They took a high moral line regarding the dramatist’s unhealthy interest in the lives of men and women who spent their days and nights drinking to excess and indulging in sexual activities of a kind that right-thinking people considered unacceptable.
Exhibitions: Monet & Architecture at the National Gallery
Arts | By Huon Mallalileu

Exhibitions: Monet & Architecture at the National Gallery

Glory be! Here we have an exhibition with ‘Monet’ in the title offering more than the usual two or three paintings by the master, a lot of padding and a room of contemporary for ‘relevance’. This one does exactly what it says on the placards: there are 78 paintings by the man himself, and nothing else. Only the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris can beat this for numbers.
Radio: Too much #MeToo?
Arts | By Valerie Grove

Radio: Too much #MeToo?

There was so much airtime given to Mothering Sunday schmaltz but Carla Bruni's breathy french accent has saved the waves says Valerie Grove
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