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FIVE BEST PLAYS
Detaining Justice
(Tricycle Theatre, London)
Indhu Rubasingham’s production of Bola Agbaje’s wonderful play, about a young Zimbabwean being held in a British detention centre, has pitch-perfect performances.
(020 7328 1000) to 15 Dec
Cock
(Royal Court, London)
The young playwright Mike Bartlett has performed a brilliant and blackly hilarious feat of penile provocation for the Naughties. It’s an intense, unbroken 80-minute encounter with bsexuality and its discontents.
(020-7565 5000) to 19 Dec
The Fahrenheit Twins
(Barbican, London)
Hayley Carmichael and Paul Hunter star as a pair of twins trapped in an artificial predicament by far from natural parenting in this delightfully inventive, funny-sad new double-hander from Told by an Idiot.
(020 7638 8891) to 5 Dec
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
(Novello Theatre, London)
Debbie Allen’s all-black staging of Tennessee Williams’s classic is compelling, sensitive and acerbically comic, with a stunning James Earl Jones reprising his Broadway role as Big Daddy.
(0844 482 5170) to 10 Apr
Othello
(Trafalgar Studios, London)
This production’s peculiar impact derives both from our knowing that the well-loved Lenny Henry as Othello is a Shakespeare novice and from his extraordinary feat in persuading us to forget that fact.
(0870 060 6632) to 12 Dec