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Caryl Churchill’s magnificent Cloud 9 reaches for the skies – the National Theatre has done it proud

National Theatre, London The experimental 1979 drama gleefully muddles roles in a century-spanning caper that bounces from colonial Africa to hippy London Caryl Churchill’s time-hopping 1979 drama is not revived as often as it might be, perhaps because it is so magnificently madcap. Bouncing from a first act satirising Victorian life in colonial Africa to a second act exploring sexual liberation in 1970s London, it could easily roll off-kilter in the wrong hands. There is also its complicated framework. Cloud 9 is a play in two distinct parts which follows some of the characters a century on,

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‘Like having your brain squeezed’: Succession’s Jesse Armstrong and more on the rollercoaster of TV writers’ rooms

As co-writer of new thriller Hunting Alice Bell, our film critic entered the hallowed Room – and was struck by its support, buzz, abrasion and chocolate snacks. He asks legendary showrunners about their experience ‘Write, write, write until your fingers break!” That was Chekhov’s advice to writers. Until I started writing for television I thought I understood what he meant. I thought I knew what writing was: the solitude, the making yourself do it, the finger-shattering pain of doing it seriously, on your own. As well as being chief film critic for the Guardian, I have written fiction and in s

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David Walliams: Power and Silence review – some of this footage will make your head spin

From the visceral accounts of those the comedian allegedly groomed to archive footage of Jonathan Ross joking about him taking 15-year-olds home, this is dizzying TV David Walliams and his lawyers fought to the last to keep secret the results of a three-year investigation by ITV and the Guardian into claims by multiple women of the comedian and author’s predatory behaviour dating back decades, but those attempts failed and now they have been laid bare before the public. Accompanying the Guardian’s reports, an hour-long documentary has been released – first on YouTube and now on ITVX. It largel

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