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All-singing and dancing stage performances, a feast of new films - they are all featured in our critics picks of the best of film, music and theatre. Read on to find out what to see and do this weekend...

Eleanor Rhode directs a modern version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring Mathew Baynton of Horrible Histories and Ghosts fame as Bottom, the fool who becomes one of several victims of fairy mischief. But, in a delightful twist, the star of the show is Puck, who was played by Premi Tamang due to the indisposition of Rosie Sheehy.

As one would expect at Jermyn Street Theatre, acting, direction, design, lighting (Chuma Emembolu), and sound (Sasha Howe and Max Pappenheim) are of a very high standard.

Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting

|Gareth Farr’s two-hander explores the poverty in contemporary Cornwall |Julia Rank|London|

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Couple slide towards poverty in Hampstead Downstairs two-hander. Theatre review by Anya Ryan

Moving drama set in Cornwall explores food poverty amid our troubled times

<p>Gareth Farr's two-hander explores the poverty in contemporary Cornwall </p>

After a promising start, this play ends up becoming increasingly repetitive