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Play Well, Monos, Vassa, Elizabeth Strout, The Accident

Colombian film Monos, Vassa at The Almeida, Elizabeth Strout's Olive Again, Play Well at The Wellcome Collection, AND TV

Play Well is a new exhibition opening at the Wellcome Collection in London, aiming to explore how play transforms both childhood and society.

On a mountaintop in Colombia, eight children with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow, communicated with over the radio by a threatening commander. That's the basic plot of a new film Monos, which has won awards at international festivals.

Vassa is the new production at London's Almeida Theatre, adapted from Maxim Gorky's play by Mike Bartlett and starring Siobhan Redmond.

Elizabeth Strout's new novel Olive Again reintroduces readers to Olive Kitteridge, from her best-selling 2008 novel. Older and (maybe) wiser, she's as blunt and delightful as ever as she copes with a second marriage.

The Accident is a new series beginning on Channel 4 written by Jack Thorne and starring Sarah Lancashire.

Presented by Emma Woolf, the reviewers are Pat Kane, Alex Clark and Sally Gardner. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Podcast Extra recommendations:

Sally: Mystify
Pat: The Emotional Mind by Stephen T Asma and Rami Gabriel
Alex: The Reluctant Landlord on TV and the Kilkenny One Act Play festival
Emma: George Gissing

Available now

47 minutes

Vassa

Vassa
Siobh谩n Redmond
Almeida Theatre until 23 Nov 2019
Image credit: Marc Brenner

Monos

Monos
Image courtesy of Picturehouse Entertainment
Monos is in cinemas from 25 Oct 2019, cert 15

Olive, Again

Olive, Again
By Elizabeth Strout
Publisher: Penguin Books
滨尘补驳别:听漏听尝别辞苍补谤诲-颁别苍诲补尘辞

Play Well

Play Well
Wellcome Collection
until 8 March 2020
The Frog Pond, Toffee Park Adventure Playground, London
漏聽Mark Neville 2016

The Accident

The Accident
Sarah Lancashire
Airs on Channel 4
9pm 24 Oct 2019

Broadcast

  • Sat 26 Oct 2019 19:15

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