The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Plays
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A seasoned company of 20-odd actors bring Gorky's anxious turn-of-the- century Russians to richly complex life. To 11 Nov
The Triumph of Love (Almeida, London)
Marivaux's tart comedy of serial seduction. Linda Bassett and Colin Stinton are hilarious as a repressed couple tricked into emotional abandon. To 25 Sept
Drummers (New Ambassadors, London)
Caustic black comedy about vengeful jailbirds from a new playwright, Simon Bennett who, having once served a sentence for burglary, knows what he's talking about. To 9 Oct
Timon of Athens (RSC, Stratford Upon Avon)
Michael Pennington shines as a violent but psychologically subtle Timon, in this remarkably witty and penetrating production (right). In rep to 9 Oct
Irma La Douce (Watermill Theatre, Newbury)
With this intimate theatre converted into a Parisian cafe, there's a cabaret atmosphere to John Doyle's rousing revival of this Fifties musical. To 25 Sept
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