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Ryan Gosling plays a stunt double searching for a missing Hollywood star, while Britain’s biggest pop star offers some Glastonbury-ready bangers

ROMSEY Operatic and Dramatic Societys next production uses physical theatre techniques to portray the story of love in its many forms.

A production of Jane Austens first full-length work is set to visit Worcester.

WORCESTER company C&T has won Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the Drama and Education Awards through its platform Prospero.

Frantic Assembly takes on a new challenge, taking a decades old Kafka novel, The Metamorphosis, and putting it to the stage in their signature physical theatre style.

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Review: Things I Know to be True at Ilkley Playhouse

Dreams of fame trap and inspire in Jez Butterworth’s female-centred, Blackpool-set new play; Lemn Sissay takes a personal approach to Kafka; and the Sex and the City creator is full of unsurprises

Frantic Assembly’s new version, penned by Lemn Sissay, may be poetically vivid and visually mesmerising, but it is terminally plagued by dramatic inertia. Without that key ingredient, the production melts into the looming shadows. An expressionistic mess. But a beautiful one to watch unravel.

The physical theatre is a spectacle, but it also comes across as filler for a fairly flimsy story, and the stage is sometimes very busy for the sake of busyness.