MADELEINE could not think when she last went to the theatre. Her father didn’t enjoy plays much, and Madeleine tended to go along with what he liked. They were close; the Gilbert family was just the t

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When Tom Stoppard died in November, he left behind over 30 stage plays. But it was to Arcadia, his story of a Regency-era girl genius, that the obituarists most frequently returned. In Thomasina Cover

THEATRE Private Lives THE ROYAL EXCHANGE THEATRE, ...

The late Sir Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece is revived and there are great reworkings of Strindberg and a teenage Coward’s play

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