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What to see and do this weekend: From Zac Efron's career-defining performance in The Iron Claw to Sam Mendes's fabulous new play The Hills Of California, the Mail's critics pick the best cultural events
All-singing and dancing stage performances, the best new films to wrestle with - all featured in our critics' picks of the best of film, music, theatre and art. Read on to find out what to see and do...
Downstairs, her grown-up daughters (a fractious bunch brilliantly played by Helena Wilson, Ophelia Lovibond and Leanne Best) are arriving to say farewell, all waiting for their long-lost sister Joan to turn up from California before the GP can release their mum from her agony with a benign morphine overdose (those were the days). The sisters in question are peacemaking Sylvia (Sinead Matthews), who’s marrying a Polish immigrant; Maggie (Lisa McGrillis), whose checkered love life has seen her move out of town; and Hazel (Lucy Black), clinging to a marriage adrift in the mid-life doldrums. There are plenty of very good wrestling scenes in The Iron Claw, although writer-director Sean Durkin never quite reveals the extent to which the bouts are choreographed in advance, as those of us who grew up watching the likes of Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy on ITV on Saturday afternoons always knew they were.
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