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Cinema

Hairspray (`PG', Selected cinemas) Salome's Last Dance (`18', Prince Charles) Summer panto time Hilary Mantel I t seems that for years connoisseurs of excrement have been......

Theatre

Speed The Plow (Spoleto Festival) Cupidity and idealism Christopher Edwards T he Spoleto festival in Italy included the European premiere of David Mamet's latest play, Speed The......

West End Theatre

Who's to blame? David Wurtzel L ast autumn, in the midst of the RSC's Genet season, and just before the curtain metaphorically rose on the Barbican's open stage, the empty row......