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Theatre

Nicole Kidman is upstaged by everyone - even the set: Photograph 51 at the Noel Coward reviewed

Plus: a new show about education at the Old Vic that makes you want to sack the teaching profession

26 September 2015

8:00 AM

26 September 2015

8:00 AM

Photograph 51

Noel Coward, until 21 November

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Old Vic, until 3 October

Michael Grandage’s latest show is about an old snap. Geneticists regard the X-ray of the hydrated ‘B’ form of DNA as one of the loveliest images ever captured. To laymen it looks like some woodlice drowning in yesterday’s porridge. The pic was taken in 1951 by the British biochemist Dr Rosalind Franklin but she failed to realise its significance.

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