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    The best new plays to see this February

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    Ancient works in exciting hands, West End transfers for winning productions and new writing in major venues are among February's theatre offerings

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    Sound of the Underground: political theatre meets cabaret

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    The great Dolly Parton gives a warm southern makeover to A Christmas Carol, reimagining the action in a mining town in East Tennessee

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    London's best theatre shows of 2022

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    My Neighbour Totoro celebrates the power of puppetry

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    The Caucasian Chalk Circle: musically moving but overstuffed

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    The Boy With Two Hearts: heartfelt and empathetic

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    Based on BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, this stage adaptation of The Boy with Two Hearts details the heartrending struggle of Afghan refugees

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    Review: Jews. In Their Own Words.

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    Eureka Day: a well-timed jab at woke culture

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    Review: Handbagged at the Kiln Theatre

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    The 2014 Olivier award-winning play Handbagged returns to the Kiln, breathing life into the fractious relationship between the Iron Lady and Queen Elizabeth II

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    The Snail House: a family drama you've seen before

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    The Clinic: race play dissolves into melodrama

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    Review: Ivo van Hove's Who Killed My Father

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    All of Us review: a coup for disability programming

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    SpitLip's Operation Mincemeat (a musical comedy for the stage, not the film!) has been honed to excellency and is deserving of its long run at Riverside Studios

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