The Independent Recommends: The Five Best Theatre
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Your support makes all the difference.Antigone (Old Vic, London)
Sophocles' great tragedy gets a superb staging from Declan Donnellan and a performance of enormous complexity from Jonathan Hyde. To 15 Jan
Marathon (Gate Theatre, London)
Mick Gordon's production of Edoardo Erba's play about two young men in training for the New York marathon resonates powerfully. To 11 Dec
Spend, Spend, Spend (Piccadilly Theatre, London) This utterly irresistible new musical (right) captures the tough, impudent survivor spirit of Viv Nicholson, the woman who won and blew a Pools fortune. To 29 Jan
Macbeth (Swan Theatre, Stratford)
Greg Doran's is the best production of this notoriously difficult tragedy since the classic Trevor Nunn version. Harriet Walter is marvellously complex and achingly sad as Lady Macbeth. To 1 Jan
Larkin with Women (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough)
Ben Brown's well-crafted, funny-sad play about the love life of the poet Philip Larkin has telling points to make about the ironies of selfishness, creative solitude and loneliness. To 4 Dec
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