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The Muddy panto guide 2019
It's panto season. Oh no it isn't! Oh yes it is! Oh no.... OK, enough! Here's 18 of the best in Berkshire and beyond. Greasepaint at the ready!
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Muddy review: What’s In A Name?
Warning! You're entering the dinner party danger zone – and Inbetweeners stars Joe Thomas is the dish of the day. What's In A Name? is hilarious, heated and should come with health warning.
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Review: Great Expectation at South Hill Park
Great Expectations has been retold a gazillion times. It's a good job South Hill Park's latest production is a darkly innovative take on a Dickens classic.
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Review: Amélie The Musical, Reading
Quirky, creative and a little camp, Amélie, starring Audrey Brisson and Strictly star Danny Mac, is pure escapism – something we could all do with right now.
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Review: Ten Times Table at Windsor
The mad, bad and dangerous to know are sitting on a committee near you. Alan Ayckbourn's brilliant observational comedy reveals the politics of people sat round a table with brew and biccies.
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Awesome Autumn culture planner
It's all going on! Behold, your cheat-sheet to the season's best art, theatre, TV, books and film in the UK, as curated by Muddy's extremely cultural Kerry Potter.
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Review: The Exorcist, Windsor
Forty-six years after it opened in cinemas and following its London stage debut, is The Exorcist must-watch, cult viewing? Read our verdict from the Theatre Royal Windsor's first night.
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Review: The 39 Steps, Windsor
Femme fatales will be clutching their pearls in this slim-line parody of the 1935 Hitchcock film, The 39 Steps. It's fast, funny and has a Downton Abbey film star.
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Best of Reading Fringe
No need to schlep to Edinburgh for a fabulous Fringe, we've got one right on our doorstep. Breathe in the cool culture, here's Muddy's pick of Reading Fringe Festival.
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Pass me a vodka, it’s tense.
This ain't no sugar-coated Disney adaptation, The Anastasia File at the Theatre Royal Windsor, is so tense you could hear a pin drop (or a mobile phone ring).
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