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Lindsay Duncan and co create a living period piece in Dodie Smith’s rarely performed marvel of a family portrait; Sarah Snook’s one-woman Wilde is so wrong it’s almost right; and the music carries a tame Live Aid nostalgiafest

Dodie Smith’s play presents a beautifully drawn, four-generation celebration of a golden wedding anniversary on the eve of the second world war

Why is the National Theatre staging this frightfully old fashioned play from the 1930s? A superb performance from Lindsay Duncan and a production tinged with foreboding are reason enough

Dodie Smith’s play makes a return

I can’t help thinking that this borderline utopian agreeableness, while very pleasant, doesn’t make for great and gripping theatre.

Television scriptwriter and playwright who created Pie in the Sky – ‘a cop show that was anti-cop shows’

See which classics are being given a new lease of life this year

Hard Cheese (Season 2 Episode 1 of 10): Crabbe tracks down a peeping Tom. Pie in the Sky airs on Drama at 1:35 PM, Saturday 1 June. Crabbe tracks down a peeping Tom

The Inquiry Chichester Festival Theatre

Despite fine acting, Harry Davies’ political thriller about a contaminated water scandal fails to plumb the depths of its characters