About Ben Kulvichit Ben Kulvichit is a freelance critic and theatremaker based in Bristol. As well as writing for The Stage, he is national reviews editor at Exeunt and keeps a blog, Smaller Temples.
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Ambitious speculative fiction from Ahmed Masoud imagining life in Gaza in the 2040s
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Tracy-Ann Oberman and James Dreyfus excel in a gender-flipped, transatlantic take on Coward
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Exuberant, all-dancing revival of the popular show about stage kids dreaming of stardom
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Warmly sincere, simply wrought story of grief
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Restrained, polite and somewhat miscast production of Shakespeare’s tragedy
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A polished and high-powered take on Aladdin with lots of local colour
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New take on the classic emphasises its Bristol roots, but lacks peril
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Emma Rice’s adaptation of Dylan Thomas is a sweet, sometimes cloying nostalgia trip
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Extravagant remount of Seiriol Davies’ cult hit musical about the life of a queer Edwardian aristocrat
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Hope and despair tussle for control in this time-hopping climate-crisis play
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Music and circus drive a fairytale given an ecological update
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Nathaniel Parker and Siân Phillips star in deft stagings of a pair of well-made Rattigan one-acts
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Guleraana Mir and afshan d’souza-lodhi’s story of female friendship and coming of age set during Indian Partition is energetic, but lacks substance
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Sensitive production of Matthew López’s chamber play about urban gay life and loneliness
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Exuberant staging by Sally Cookson of Ross Willis’ feel-good drama about 12-year-old Sonny, who struggles to overcome his stammer
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