31. Pinter at his best

Award-winning actress Janie Dee is getting to grips with playwright Harold Pinter for the second time on stage.

32. A Spanish Sherlock

ACTOR Javier Marzan brings a Spanish touch to the very English figure of Sherlock Holmes at Oxford Playhouse next week.

33. One woman show

Punjabi actress Anjali Mya Chadha brings her “exotic take” on English wedding rituals to Maidenhead’s Norden Farm Centre for the Arts this weekend.

34. Powerful new drama

WITH a daughter of her own, actress Marion Bailey had no problem relating to the mother-daughter relationship at the centre of the play which brings her to Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre this weekend.

35. Second portrayal

First it was Switchback and now it is Double Death.

In other words, actor-writer Simon Williams has done a make-over of one of his earlier plays and is directing the new version himself under its new title at The Mill at Sonning.

36. Theatre Review: Plunder

Every now and again it’s nice to have all the vices laid out without judgement or a single redeeming virtue. That’s what Ben Travers’s Plunder achieves at The Watermill.

37. From little acorns.. Stage round-up

A LITTLE acorn sewn by Victoria Wood over 20 years as a regular weekly comedy sketch has grown into a full-blown musical.

38. No time to think in our Theatre round-up

IN a two-hander stage play the performers don’t even get a breather – and as Steven Pacey and Shona Lindsay found at The Mill at Sonning there’s nowhere to hide!