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Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme Only 11 performances of Patrick Mason's moving, sunny, lucid production of Frank McGuinness's imaginative and elegiac First World War drama. The finest Irish anti-war play since The Silver Tassie. The Barbican, London EC2 (0171-638 8891)

The Undertaking (right) Philip Osment, writer of the memorably moving What I Did in the Holidays and an Independent Face of 1996, returns with his new play, commissioned by Gay Sweatshop for whom Osment wrote This Island's Mine. Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (01203 524524)

Foe A case of "Robinson Crusoe Revisited" by the unrivalled Theatre de Complicite in an adaptation of the novel by JM Coetzee. The incomparable Kathryn Hunter leads the company. West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (0113- 244 2111)

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