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The week in theatre: Otherland; Backstroke " review

by Susannah Clapp

Almeida theatre, London; Donmar Warehouse, LondonChris Bush's insightful take on the trans experience drifts into the fantastical; Tamsin Greig and Celia Imrie spar as discomfited daughter and unabashed mother That crucial instruction to writers that they should "show not tell", is even more evidently useful on the stage than on the page. It might be reworded as "embody not explain". After all, so much can be seen no…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:48am on March 2, 2025