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...England 65+, led by John Nunn and with strong performances from Tony Kosten and Terry Chapman, won eight of their nine matches, but their rivals Germany-Lasker won all nine....
...Joining them are some newer, left-field successes: the dazzling little gem Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre) is enjoying an extended run in the West End while Tim Minchin and Matthew Warchus’s excellent...
...The pattern continued in 2022, when Cambridge’s top pair Harry Grieve and Matthew Wadsworth later fought out the decisive game for the British Championship....
...Nunn has given the text a fearless edit and Trevitt’s rough-and-tumble camerawork prioritises action over choreography....
...It also, in Trevor Nunn’s production, moves exceedingly slowly....
...Royal Court, London to October 12, royalcourttheatre.com Torch Song Matthew Needham is excellent as a drag queen looking for love in 1970s New York in this revival of Harvey Fierstein’s play....
...There is a human chain ensemble in which the six men knot and unravel as if absorbed in some unfathomable children’s game and there is a beguiling duet for Matthew Sandiford and Bradley Waller....
...McOnie’s staging is wittily acted, led by an outstanding performance from Matthew Needham as the acerbic, achingly vulnerable Arnold, and it launches the Turbine, appropriately, with a burst of energy....
...Nigel Short is playing in Moscow while Matthew Sadler is busy with his IT work, but the other four are all in action at the current £50,000 British KO championship at London’s Olympia Conference Centre....
...From Harold Pinter, Trevor Nunn and Rupert Goold to Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Carey Mulligan, the cast of those Friedman has worked with reads like a Who’s Who of contemporary dramatic talent....
...Miles Richardson, Geoffrey Freshwater and Matthew Kelly as the “suitors” give the grotesque brio required, but overall the evening demonstrates that naturalism, just like Scoto’s miraculous oil, is far from...
...Matthew Rees agrees. “They’ve been on our side of it. They know when people hurt.” Both are surprised and impressed by how frequently they are consulted on creative matters....
...But, like Nunn, people these days are happier to shop around. Price joined John Lewis as a graduate trainee....
...brb.org.uk, 0843 208 6007 … Ballet Boyz: The Talent, Linbury Studio Theatre, London This gifted male ensemble, directed by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, arrives at Covent Garden’s Linbury Theatre...
...Rosanna Ter-Berg and Leo Nicholson made a first-rate flute and piano duo, who shone in everything they touched, from sultry Jolivet to neo-romantic David Matthews....
...is secretly terrified, and there are lovely performances from Joe Armstrong as the down-to-earth tail-gunner; from Clive Wood as the concerned squadron leader; Sarah Crowden as the brusque hotelier; and Matthew...
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