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Published: 23 April 2009

In the Wings

• CONFUSION abounds in the kingdom of Illyria for Shakespeare’s classic comedy of gender-switching and court politics, Twelfth Night. Audiences have just one more week to catch Harry Meacher’s production at the wonderful Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead, so get your yellow crossed garters – as favoured by the unfortunate Malvolio – in gear.
Until May 2. Box office: 020 7435 3648. Tickets £12, £10 concessions.

• UNDER different circumstances you would be reading a review of A Place at the Table, the latest offering from the Camden People’s Theatre, on these pages today.
Unfortunately, technical difficulties stopped the show from going ahead on Tuesday night but the premise, in which spectators take a seat alongside the actors around a dinner table, sounds an intriguing one. Dinner party discussion revolves around the ongoing civil and political unrest in the African nation of Burundi. Until May 2.

• SHADY pasts, disowned relatives and an overbearing matriarch are a surefire recipe for trouble in Jason Charles’s new play, Estranged. A study of “sexuality and conformity, family and desire... the life we have and the life we crave”, Estranged is at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton until May 3.

• SUNDAYS are ooking up. In May and June, the King’s Head Theatre in Islington will present a double bill of comic plays about lost innocence. Life’s a Gas and Not Going Down, both by Anthony Bull, delve into the murky world of drag queens, strippers, and vulnerable bunny girls.

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