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Timber! by Cirque AlfonseLumberjack acrobats Timber! by Cirque Alfonse
Look out for flying axes and death-defying leaps with saws as Québec’s Cirque Alfonse bring their acrobatics to London’s Southbank Centre for a Christmas run
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Richard Gadd – comedy of relentless degradationThis multimedia show is a cartoon misery memoir, not without its pleasures, but mainly two-dimensional, writes Brian Logan -
Why theatre should be a risky businessIf theatres want to increase attendance, they mustn’t be afraid of alienating their established audiences, writes Lyn Gardner
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Up close and political: how we shot the Guardian and Royal Court microplaysCinematographer Eben Bolter sheds light on the look and feel of the six works in our Off the Page project, where journalism met theatre
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Mother Goose at Hackney Empire: panto with all the trimmings - in picturesGo backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan in Sacred Monsters – in picturesKathak meets ballet in this duet first performed at Sadler’s Wells in 2006 and now back for its final run of performances before Guillem’s retirement
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Helen Werner obituaryOther lives: Trained ballerina, and fluent German-speaker who worked for Bletchley Park
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The Mikhailovsky Ballet makes its US debut – in picturesSt Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet made its US debut with a two-week residency at the David H Koch theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City
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The rape allegations against Cosby didn’t stick until the standup Hannibal Buress made the accusation on stage. Sometimes comedians are able to say what others can’t, writes Brian LoganIt took a comedian to call Bill Cosby to account
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Up close and political: how we shot the Guardian and Royal Court microplaysCinematographer Eben Bolter sheds light on the look and feel of the six works in our Off the Page project, where journalism met theatre
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Mother Goose at Hackney Empire: panto with all the trimmings - in picturesGo backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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Guardian Australia culture podcast – the prescribed fun episode
The culture team talks summer music festivals, whether fashion is art and if Australians are intellectuals. Plus we nominate our top December must-dos that don't involve tinsel
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Cats or Pussycat Dolls?
As Nicole Scherzinger prepares to play Grizabella, can you tell which of these lyrics are sung in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End musical and which are sung by the Pussycat Dolls?
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Everyday Shakespeare
Many of Shakespeare's lines are used in daily life – but do you know which plays feature these popular expressions?
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Laurence Olivier or @Tips4Actors?
Laurence Olivier had plenty of wise words for aspiring performers. Mind you, so does the moderate Twitter sensation @Tips4Actors. Can you tell whose lines are whose?
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Match Shakespeare's plays to their settings
These are the locations for the opening scenes in 10 of the Bard's plays. Match the setting to the play
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"O, he will dissolve my mystery!" – which is Mrs Malaprop's right wrong word?
Taking its name from the misused words of Mrs Malaprop in The Rivals, a malapropism (AKA a dogberryism) is the use of an incorrect word in place of one with a similar sound. Can you guess the right wrong words?
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'You bull's pizzle': match Shakespeare's insults to his plays – quiz
Shakespeare wrote some of the most beautiful sonnets in history but he was also the prince of putdowns. How well do you know the Bard's barbs?
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Quiz: which Shakespeare characters speak these lines about love?
Do you know your Benedick from your Beatrice? Your Romeo from your Juliet? Match the quote to the character
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Gillian Anderson quiz: A Streetcar Named Desire or The X Files?
Can you tell which of these lines belong to Blanche Dubois and which are spoken by agent Dana Scully?
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Theatre quiz: which Shakespeare character is dying?
Shakespeare saved some fine lines for those characters drawing their last breath. Can you identify who speaks these words in their exit speeches?
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Quiz: match the stage directions to the play
Here are 10 striking stage directions – can you identify the plays they're taken from?
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Quiz: whose review is it anyway? Nancy Dell'Olio v Jeremy Paxman
Can you guess which of these two festival newbies the reviewers are writing about?
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Quiz: Who told these one-liners about education?
Here are 10 one-liners on the subject of education. Do you know which comedian is responsible for each of them?
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Quiz: Who told these one-liners about television?
Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of television. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Quiz: Who told these one-liners about conflict?
Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of conflict. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Can you identify these last lines of plays? – quiz
Were you paying attention before the curtain fell? See if you recognise these closing lines of 10 great plays
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Quiz: Who told these one-liners about money?
Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of money. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Which Shakespeare characters speak these lines? – quiz
Do you know your Lear from your Leontes? Your Macbeth from your Mercutio? Match these lines to the right characters
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Mean Girls or David Mamet? - quiz
As Lindsay Lohan prepares to make her West End debut in Speed-the-Plow, can you guess if these lines come from Mean Girls or David Mamet's plays?
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Quiz: Who told these one-liners about sex?
Here are 10 pithy gags on the subject of sex. Do you know which entertainer is responsible for each of them?
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Quiz: who told these one-liners about children?
Here are 10 one-liners on the subject of kids. Do you know which standup is responsible for each of them?
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Mother Goose at Hackney Empire: panto with all the trimmings - in picturesGo backstage at Hackney Empire’s annual pantomime, where Clive Rowe and Sharon D Clarke are waiting in the wings to give the audience goose bumps
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Man on fire: Richard Armitage's explosive turn in The Crucible – exclusive video
Take a sneak peek at the star's blistering performance as John Proctor in one of the year's most acclaimed theatre productions – now broadcast in cinemas
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Tom Hiddleston: how Shakespeare seeped into my bones – video
The Coriolanus star recalls being bewitched by the 'toil and trouble' of Macbeth as a 10-year-old schoolboy
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Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan in Sacred Monsters – in picturesKathak meets ballet in this duet first performed at Sadler’s Wells in 2006 and now back for its final run of performances before Guillem’s retirement
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The Mikhailovsky Ballet makes its US debut – in picturesSt Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Ballet made its US debut with a two-week residency at the David H Koch theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City
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Life's a circus: backstage at La Soirée - in picturesThe cabaret show La Soirée is back for a 10th season in London. Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton went behind the scenes with some of the performers
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Hugh Jackman on stage: from Oklahoma! to The River – in picturesBefore becoming Wolverine and Jean Valjean, Hugh Jackman started out as a stage actor. As he returns to Broadway in Jez Butterworth’s The River, revisit his theatrical career
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Poetry in motion: the Royal Ballet dance WH Auden – in picturesThe centrepiece of the Royal Ballet’s new triple bill is The Age of Anxiety, a world premiere choreographed by Liam Scarlett and inspired by Auden. All photographs by Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
It took a comedian to call Bill Cosby to account