Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. This section contains mature content and you need to be at least 17 years old. When the condemned’s sister, Isabella, leaves her nunnery to plead for his life, Angelo offers her a deal: sleep with me or your brother dies. Then the music kicks in: The Color Purple has a groovesome, joyful score of gospel and soul. Not so fast, my friend. I came out craving a play about the rewards and joys of family life. Sam Reid has kept his personal life low profiled. The evening skilfully reveals how these exhaustingly political parents bequeath a legacy of inner misery and failure to their children. “I’d love to look at you and not notice your eyes,” she said.

Or, as the ever-acute Pauline put it: “What these happy people don’t realise is that it will end because everything good always ends. Find Sam Swainsbury movies, filmography, bio, co stars, photos, news and tweets. In Shakespeare’s dark comedy about sex in the city, the Duke of Vienna has decided to leave the metropolis in the care of his creepy, puritanical deputy, Angelo. Would Cathy and Michael’s on-off romance finally be well and truly on? That Manville and Mullan manage to show us all of that fear and love and trust and hidden pain, often without saying a word, is a testimony both to their skill and to the completeness of the world that Golaszewski has created. Well, sort of. From the little moments such as Cathy’s father-in-law Reg (Karl Johnson) carefully drawing back a strand of his snoozing wife’s hair while Cyndi Lauper’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fun blared in the background, to the empty despair flitting across Pauline’s face as Derek (Ross Boatman) desperately tried to please her, to the big life-changing ones such as Michael’s proposed Spanish exile – this is a comedy that understands that every aspect of life is worth cherishing. Name another show where you can see a lifeboat containing an orangutan, an injured zebra and a killer hyena that crunches the lot and is in turn pounced on by a Bengal tiger. Why not be the first to send us your thoughts, Sal prides herself on the filthiness of her cooking. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.

Instead of a folkloric Norway with trolls, fjords and mountain halls, David Hare’s version of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt is rooted in Dunoon, Scotland. No comments have so far been submitted.

Angry Birds: Summer Madness Sparks and feathers fly when a teenage Red, Chuck, Bomb and Stella spend a wild summer together with other Angry Birds at Camp Splinterwood! Polly (Kate O’Flynn) is Cambridge- educated, although she’s stupid enough to ping intimate photos to her married, older workplace lover. Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, the playwright and director behind the global smash hit Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, have again teamed up for this new play, set in a kitchen in the Berkshire town of Newbury. This fresh, insightful version of a morally murky play finds the RSC on flying form.

Christian was born on May 23 1761, in Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England. But for some reason, Brexit is to playwrights what garlic is to vampires. They never arrive in Canada as their ship sinks. or debate this issue live on our message boards. I adore you.” It was exactly the kind of speech that Richard Curtis has built an entire industry on, but after she had finished, the desperately overwhelmed Michael then scuttled into the toilet for a think. David Morrissey paternally sits reading the paper, his body language subtly ageing as the years advance from 1997, at the time of the New Labour landslide, to 2007, and on to 2017. I’d say the Crucible has a roaring hit on its hands. Jonathan Kent’s staging of this odyssey is packed – you even get dancing cowgirls! The great skill of Stefan Golaszewski’s sitcom is the way in which it recognises that big over-the-top declarations, while perfect on TV, aren’t really the stuff of everyday life. Those fabulous smiles will fall from their faces and they’ll be wading through rivers of shit like the rest of us.”. That naturally goes down like cold sick, though brave faces are put on. But this exciting, spiritual fable has Pi finding a living god in the fearful symmetry (Blake’s poem The Tyger leaps to mind) between man and beast. Do you need to know the book or film?

The prowling tiger is the star here, magically pawing the boat’s gunwales, hunger visible in its salt-matted flanks. James McArdle plays Ibsen’s Peer Gynt as Peter Gynt, a blustering young soldier returning home from the war.

Olivier Stage, National Theatre, London Until October 8, 3hrs 20mins. She portrays human rights attorney, Emma Banville, who takes on the case of Kevin Russell (Sam Swainsbury), a man jailed for the murder of a schoolgirl 14 years ago, when he wasn't much more than a child himself. It takes a certain amount of bravery to step blindly off the cliff and trust that the person you adore adores you back, and all the more so when, like Cathy, you are a widow who was married for decades. “I’d love to go to bed at night and not think about you. Indeed, all the puppets – designed by Finn Caldwell and Nick Barnes – are so thrillingly lifelike that I barely ever noticed their handlers. Inevitably, the debriefing scenes by disbelieving officials (David K S Tse and Gabby Wong) lag a little, as they are animal-free encounters.

There is no information regarding his personal life and relationships. A suburban mother of two takes a fantasy-charged trip down memory lane that sets her very married present on a collision course with her wild-child past. Joseph Arkley is wonderful as the flash bachelor Lucio, and Claire Price is the refreshingly decent Escalus. Max Webster’s beautiful, briny production struck me as its own thing. It’s sharply observed, well acted and often funny, but in the end it’s yet another conventionally sad tale of domestic meltdown, with the obligatory suicide attempt and a fatal illness.