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David Jays

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Writer and editor on theatre, dance. Guardian, Evening Standard, Dance Gazette, Why Dance Matters podcast.
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By David Jays
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‘Every part is an education,” says Linda Bassett. “That's the glory of being an actor. You learn about human feelings and frailty and rottenness. The writer puts their soul on the page, and you inhabit that. I've always felt I was a writer's actor.” She's not wrong. Never showy, Bassett's understated magic has enhanced plays by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Wallace Shawn, Ayub Khan Din and, notably, Caryl Churchill, of whom she is a peerless interpreter.
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Tender review – modern masculinity laid bare in pumped-up strip club drama

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By David Jays
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Hard bodies, squishy hearts … Kwami Odoom and Dex Lee in Tender at Soho theatre, London. Photograph: Alex Brenner There are two kinds of people in the world – those who, given a paddle to signal willingness for audience participation at a play set in a strip club, will raise it high, and then there’s me. The crowd arrived hyped for Dave Harris’s Tender – my neighbour waved her paddle through the pre-show playlist – but it’s not really about rambunctious bump and grind.
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Driftwood review – emotions dialled up to 11 in Trinidadian tale of longing

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By David Jays
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Exuberant .. Cat White as Ruby in Driftwood at the Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.Photograph: Marc Brenner (Photograph: Marc Brenner) The air hangs heavy in Alma, a drinking club in 1950s Port of Spain, Trinidad. Heat and rum bring their own kind of languor – but in Martina Laird’s play, change is coming, both within a fractured family and in the wider world. Alma is managed by a mother and daughter.
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