Faith Healer
Verdict: Lyrical healing
We have the Irish to thank for keeping the music in the English language alive on stage over the past century. Two of the greatest exponents of this are Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel.
McGuinness has a new play, The Visiting Hour, out this week. Starring Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy, it was filmed at Dublin s Gate Theatre. And one of Friel s finest, Faith Healer, has been recorded as an audio drama, with Ian Rickson directing Ciaran Hinds, Michelle Fairley and Toby Jones.
The Visiting Hour is a dark, unsettling game of cat and mouse between a man with dementia, living in a care home, and his daughter, who comes to see him during the pandemic.
Culture vultures rejoice! Theatres, cinemas, pop arenas, concert halls and galleries reopen on Monday and what a feast of entertainment they ve got in store.
From Dua Lipa s tour, Emma Stone s deliciously evil Cruella de Vil on the big screen and Andrew Lloyd Webber s new Cinderella, to a David Hockney exhibition and Ricky Gervais s comedy show, there is something for everyone.
Here the Mail s critics round up the best shows around the country.
Film
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway
Beatrix Potter purists may not have loved the first Peter Rabbit in 2018, but it struck 24-carrot gold at the box office.
And hit children s films always get sequels these days. This one again has a voice cast led by James Corden and Margot Robbie, with Rose Byrne and Domhnall Gleeson reprising their live-action roles. From May 17.
Against) and Lydia Wilson (
The Duchess of Malfi) star in the show directed by Ian Rickson. It has design by Rae Smith, lighting design by Azusa Ono, music by Mark Bradshaw, sound design by Emma Laxton and casting by Amy Ball.
The piece follows a NASA botanist who returns from a year-long mission to the Moon and meets up with her twin sister. It opens the Re:Emerge season of shows, with a trio of new plays being presented in the West End.
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