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Review: THE SEA at Bath Theatre Royal Bond’s focus on the monumental as it collides with the mundane in the most unexpected ways keeps an audience on its toes. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/SaKTcN6 @TheatreRBath

Review: MIDDLEMARCH PARTS 1 & 2 at The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Brings us deeply into the hearts of the characters, so that by the end of the six-hour journey they have come to seem like friends. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/LVbDpPT @TheRSC

Review: BARNUM: The Circus Musical at Malvern Festival Theatre The show is effervescent to a fault, defying anyone not to be entertained by the mix of larger-than-life theatre. ★★★★★ ift.tt/J1pW2FG @MalvernTheatres

Review: THE GANG OF THREE at Playhouse Theatre, Oxford For this particular (male) gang, the political is very personal indeed. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/OI1aojH @OxfordPlayhouse

Review: LANNY at Bristol Old Vic This is theatre with real imaginative nerve funny, frightening and emotionally devastating. ★★★★★ ift.tt/5bKZy13 @BristolOldVic

Review: THE TRAGEDY OF OMLET, PRINCE OF HEN-MARK at The Wardrobe Theatre One man, one egg and an indecent amount of Shakespeare: Living Spit’s latest is a feat of lo-fi ingenuity. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/1OrmHGp @WardrobeTheatre

Review: BACK TO THE FUTURE THE MUSICAL at Bristol Hippodrome The whoops of joy greeting scene after scene are a tribute to the power of the show. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/sZ8EUMN @BristolHipp

Review: PYGMALION at Swan Theatre, Worcester A good opportunity to see a seminal work by one of the 20th Century greats. ★★★☆☆ ift.tt/2ZDob4i

Review: THE ANASTASIA FILE at Malvern Theatre Ryton’s gripping two-hander is a tense exploration of truth versus delusion. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/lVgBzbD @MalvernTheatres

Review: ONCE UPON A TIME IN SOKOTO at Oxford Playhouse Theatre A rare chance to encounter a little-known period in African history that continues to impact on our modern world. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/wokSKjC @OxfordPlayhouse

Review: CHAUNTECLEER & PERTELOTTE at Alma Tavern Theatre Winning performances from a pair of actors possessed of boundless energy. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/GlStk3r @AlmaBristol

Review: THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Oxford Playhouse Theatre The sharp social satire is given a breath of new life. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/pRWchM8 @OxfordPlayhouse

Review: THE OCEAN CAN BE A BRIDGE at The Alma Tavern Theatre A stateliness emanates from Benoit-Joyce’s interpretation ★★★☆☆ ift.tt/VlMkW9v @AlmaBristol

Review: AS YOU LIKE IT at RSC Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon A thoroughly interesting and idiosyncratic production of As You Like It. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/O5WZ2rB @TheRSC

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Review: August Wilson's FENCES at Oxford Playhouse Theatre An impressive revival of August Wilson's classic drama of family and race. ★★★★★ ift.tt/NBS2HK5 @OxfordPlayhouse

Review: MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG at The Watermill Theatre An excellent cast of eight playing 17 different characters from Coles’ original novel ★★★★☆ ift.tt/6QclPRd @WatermillTh

Review: APPLICATION 39 at Bristol Old Vic Weston Studio An important, heartfelt piece of agitprop laced with dark comedy. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/IkmFSjA @BristolOldVic

Review: DON GIOVANNI at Tobacco Factory Theatres Giovanni has to be a baddie, and in Samuel Pantcheff we have just the guy. ★★★★★ ift.tt/yfxWwT4 @tftheatres

Review: DAUNTLESS: GRACE O'MALLEY, PIRATE QUEEN at The Wardrobe Theatre A splendid piece of masterful story-telling. ★★★★☆ ift.tt/ZKekdht @WardrobeTheatre