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Mark ShentonFrom the Bard freshly minted to a bruising football drama to a pioneering East End musical, our critic Mark Shenton looks at three must-see productions on the London stage right now...

1. HAMLET (Old Vic) Think you've seen it before? Think again. Director Trevor Nunn does something new and uniquely bracing with this modern-day production.

Not only does he make it live for today 聳 which all the best productions of any Shakespeare aspire to do 聳 but Nunn also seeks to "see what happens when the characters in this greatest of tragedies are played by young people of student age."

Ben WishawSo we have 23-year-old Ben Wishaw (pictured right), fresh from a small role in the National's His Dark Materials, making a leap into the material darkness of Hamlet, his whippet-thin, angular frame hunched in brooding melancholy as he is first seen, wearing a beanie-hat and biting on his nails.

Meanwhile, Ophelia 聳 19-year-old London University student Samantha Whittaker 聳 bops along to pop music in her room.

The play is delivered as if it's been freshly minted, which some of it is 聳 Nunn interpolates some scenes new to Shakespeare, including the sight of Claudius physically beating up Hamlet, as this everyday story of murder, madness and retribution in a modern Royal Family is despatched on its tragic course.
Booking to: 31 July, box office: 0870 060 6628
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2. SING YER HEART OUT FOR THE LADS (National Theatre, Cottesloe) Roy Williams' bruising drama, first briefly seen at the National in 2002, makes a welcome extended return.

"This is a brilliant play that dares to articulate unpalatable ideas, and give voice to serious arguments on both sides of a racist divide..."

About bar-room politics, football and racism that is provoked against the backdrop of the England v Germany World Cup qualifier on Saturday 7 October, 2000, it sees the Cottesloe transformed into the bar of the King George III pub in south-west London, around which the action unfolds.

As the publican Gina (Tanya Franks) readies the pub with her dad Jimmy (Gawn Grainger) for the arrival of a group of fans to watch the match on the giant screen in the corner, the scene is quickly set for a powerful drama that will unfold in real-time in the next two hours.

Williams rachets up the tension with extraordinary skill and minutely detailed pacing which requires moments in the drama to be timed to coincide precisely with moments in the game, as the characters respond to what they're watching on screen.

slow-burning anger

When Gina's son Glen (Ryan Ford) is beaten up for his jacket and mobile by two black kids, one of the drinkers ominously declares, "Rivers of blood".

Sing Yer Heart Out For The LadsThe person who says it, Alan (Paul Moriarty), is no inarticulate yob, though, and Williams takes the far more dangerous and engrossing route of letting him defend his position.

But the slow-burning anger of the disaffected Mark (Ray Fearon) 聳 a black former soldier who has done service in Northern Ireland 聳 and his brother Barry (So Solid Crew's Ashley Walters), offer an eventually potent riposte to what constitutes Englishness.

This is a brilliant play that dares to articulate unpalatable ideas, and give voice to serious arguments on both sides of a racist divide.
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26 June, box office: 020 7452 3000
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3. THE BIG LIFE (Theatre Royal Stratford East) Developed through Stratford East's pioneering Musical Theatre Project, which last year brought the invigorating but dramatically incoherent Da Boyz to the stage, this is a massive step forward.

The Big LifeIt's the most authentic, joyous, heartfelt and moving new British musical of its kind since Blood Brothers.

A beautifully crafted, fictionalised story that directly addresses an important chapter of Britain's own history 聳 the arrival of Caribbean immigrants aboard the Windrush in 1948 聳 it does so without being preachy or earnest.

Paul Sirett's witty script, Paul Joseph's vibrant score and Clint Dyer's buoyant production all contribute to an evening that is, above all, fun.
Runs to: 29 May, box office: 020 8534 0310
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