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Theatre

Nicholas Hytner’s sod-you farewell: Rules for Living at the Dorfman reviewed

<span style="color: #333333;">Plus: </span><em style="color: #333333;">Spend Spend Spend</em><span style="color: #333333;">, a stylish musical revival that should get a West End transfer - but they need some celebs</span>

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

11 April 2015

9:00 AM

Rules for Living

Dorfman, in rep until 8 July

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Union Theatre, until 18 April

Experts are concerned that Alan Ayckbourn’s plays may soon face extinction. Fewer than 80 of these precious beasts still exist in their natural habitat, so theatre-goers will be cheered to know that the National Theatre has created a genetically identical replica and released it into the wild. Rules for Living, fashioned by Sam Holcroft from the Acykbourn blueprint, is a bourgeois natter-fest in which bickering couples meet for a fractious Christmas summit.

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