The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Plays
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Starring Charles Dance, CP Taylor's play (right) about accommodations with conscience is revived in an immaculate and sensitive production by Michael Grandage. To 22 May
Gross Indecency (Gielgud Theatre, London)
The artfully fractured form of Moises Kaufman's compelling play about Oscar Wilde manages to present the writer - man and symbol - in all his complex contradictoriness. Booking to 5 Jun
The Late Middle Classes
(Palace Theatre, Watford)
The fruitful collaboration between Simon Gray and Harold Pinter continues with the latter's production of Gray's dark comedy set in 1950s England. To 10 Apr
Volpone (Swan Theatre, Stratford)
Comedies don't come any funnier or more astringent than Ben Jonson's brilliant dissection of avaricious, over-reaching egotism. To 9 Oct
Troilus and Cressida (Olivier, NT, London)
This play and this theatre are made for each other, a fact proved by the masterly sweep of Trevor Nunn's production. To 19 May
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