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What to see and do this weekend: From a music superstar's mammoth new album to a Bridgerton hunk on stage in Shakespeare, the Mail's critics pick the very best of music, theatre, film and comedy
Awesome new albums, great gigs, spectacular stage performances, a host of fantastic films and cracking comedy shows - they are all featured in our critics' picks of the best of music, theatre and film.
Singer Lily Fontaine is quietly charismatic, her conversational lyrics addressing intolerance on the powerful Albert Road and her own chronic indecision on Mastermind Specialism, where she likens herself to a hesitant bride and a child who jumps off a playground slide halfway down the chute. It is 1837 and at the parsonage in the Yorkshire village of Haworth, aspiring writer Charlotte Bronte (Gemma Whelan), older sister of Emily (Adele James) and Anne (Rhiannon Clements), is reading her reply from the poet laureate Robert Southey, to whom she has sent her poems, asking his opinion of them. The banter between the rival siblings is very sharp, there are some brilliant bits of business and much fun is poked at the prissy male critics horrified that such radical, fierce novels as Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights and Anne’s The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall were written by women.
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