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National Theatre’s Paradise is powerful, political and surprisingly funny – review

Kae Tempest’s electrifying re-imagination of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, starring an all-female cast, has opened at the National Theatre in a production directed by Ian Rickson. We’re big fans of the National Theatre: we went to check out Under Milk Wood there a few weeks ago, their first production post-pandemic, and we really enjoyed our return visit – it’s one of our favourite theatre spaces, and we adore their programming. In particular we’re looking forward to The Normal Heart – set in New York during the early 1980s, it’s one of the…

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