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Grab the wigs – we’re going to the theatre! We meets the audience superfans going crazy for cosplay
By Arifa Akbar
Skeleton suits for Phantom of the Opera, garish wigs for Beetlejuice, a Don’t Tell Mama dress for Cabaret … our critic pulls on her cat ears and leotard to investigate a wild new craze
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Caryl Churchill’s magnificent Cloud 9 reaches for the skies – the National Theatre has done it proud
By Arifa Akbar
National Theatre, London The experimental 1979 drama gleefully muddles roles in a century-spanning caper that bounces from colonial Africa to hippy London
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/nov/11/cloud-9-review-national-theatre-london-caryl-churchill
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There’s scurvy, mutiny and mystery in Dogstar – but like its icebound ship this drama goes nowhere
By Arifa Akbar
Hampstead theatre, LondonA bickering trio of trapped survivors who have lost their comrades are kept in an ominous stasis in Daisy Bell’s play
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/nov/10/dogstar-review-hampstead-theatre-london
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