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The week in theatre: Withnail and I; Spirited Away; Mary Said What She Said; Boys on the Verge of Tears " review

by Susannah Clapp

Birmingham Rep; Coliseum; Barbican; Soho theatre, LondonBruce Robinson's new adaptation of his cult film is too theatrical by half; the latest staged Studio Ghibli fantasy is more effects than feeling; and all hail Isabelle Huppert's many Marys in Robert Wilson's magical production I had never thought of Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I as being theatre-infused. Too grime-groaning for that, what with rats in the oven,…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:02am on May 19, 2024