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• Tony Hadley: 'Why did I exit Spandau? Inquire the Kemps and lookout man them squirm'

  The singer proudly known as 'Tory Tone' has released a photo volume of his life. Not that he particularly likes to look dorsum

  

• Adele reportedly 'drafts in' Take That'south artistic director to salvage Vegas bear witness

  A source close to the production claims Adele has a new creative team and the 'disagreement over the set up' was filmed by a documentary coiffure

• Have sympathy for Anne Darwin – she was a victim of Canoe Man, too

  Monica Dolan gave an acting masterclass in The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, which in plow gave John Darwin's wife a sympathetic hearing

• Finish attacking the Bullingdon Gild

  Anatomy of a Scandal perpetuates a weary TV trope – the society for dim, vehement toffs. The reality, as ex-members know, is no such thing

• The Taxidermist'due south Daughter is stuffed by its own over-appetite

  This accommodation of Kate Mosse's grisly murder yarn is visually stunning but mistakenly tries to be both gothic mystery and revenge thriller

Comment and assay

• Put your claws abroad, theatregoers – and requite Jodie Comer a intermission

  The Killing Eve star's West End debut seems to be a striking with fans. Only the transition from screen to stage doesn't e'er go smoothly

  

• Who would dare write a rom-com in today'southward climate?

  Many archetype cinematic romances would not withstand the scrutiny of today's thought police force. No wonder then many recent offerings are anodyne

  

• Stop attacking the Bullingdon Club

  Anatomy of a Scandal perpetuates a weary Goggle box trope – the society for dim, violent toffs. The reality, as ex-members know, is no such thing

  

• The BBC need look no farther for the side by side host of Desert Island Discs

  John Wilson and This Cultural Life bear witness that the fine art of the interview is still alive and kicking in some places on Radio 4

  

Reviews

• Punchdrunk: The Burnt City, review

  This major new work by the immersive pioneers has some good ideas, but lacks the surprise of their greatest work

  

• At the Venice Biennale, surreal joys are in, Putin is out – and the stale males are hanging on

  The 59th edition of the art extravaganza pays tribute to Ukrainian heroism while delving brilliantly into the weirder corners of our minds

  

• Henry Vi: the RSC is back with a show of strength

  Using a non-professional chorus for this clear and compelling adaptation of Henry 6 feels intelligent, not contemporary

  

• Welcome to 'Grange hell', in the nearly panic-assault-inducing picture show of the yr

  'Playground' captures exactly what it feels like to exist seven and starting a new school, churning a microcosm of terror, anxiety and sorrow

  

• The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is an unbearable waste of Nicolas Cage

  Cage plays a literal version of himself in an action adventure that dismally fails to exploit what's so great about him in the first place

  

• Happening: an abortion drama that will brand your heart race

  Audrey Diwan's motion-picture show tells the powerful story of a promising student who finds herself pregnant in the early 1960s

  

Behind the music

Stone's untold stories, from ring-splitting feuds to the greatest performances of all fourth dimension

Tonight's Boob tube

• What'southward on TV this night: Chivalry, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story, and more than

  Your consummate guide to the week's television, films and sport, across terrestrial and digital platforms

Screen Secrets

A regular series telling the stories behind film and Idiot box'due south greatest hits – and most fascinating flops

• Roar author Cecelia Ahern on why her stories aren't trying to start a gender war

  Ahern'due south stories, adapted for Apple TV+, include one most women refusing a man a vasectomy. But, she says, her piece of work isn't out to blame men

  

• The State of war on the West past Douglas Murray review: a 'nuclear answer' to attacks on whiteness

  Douglas Murray's latest polemic mounts a spirited defence against antiracism and the Left's assault on the Western tradition

  

• Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell: at last, the biography John Donne deserves

  The swaggering Elizabethan adventurer-poet has finally met his friction match – in Rundell's blazingly intelligent and witty life

  

• Rotter or rapist? Beefcake of a Scandal'due south moral dilemma treads murky waters

  Netflix's adaption of the political thriller, starring Sienna Miller, well-nigh Britain'south privileged elite is a cautionary tale for our times

  

• At the Venice Biennale, surreal joys are in, Putin is out – and the stale males are hanging on

  The 59th edition of the art extravaganza pays tribute to Ukrainian heroism while delving brilliantly into the weirder corners of our minds

  

• The Van Gogh of Republic of kazakhstan who feigned insanity to escape the Soviets

  The country's first always pavilion at the Venice Biennale plunges you lot into the eccentric earth of Sergey Kalmykov

  

• Sonia Boyce, British Pavilion, Venice, review: lacks the 10-factor of genuine imaginative strangeness

  The British artist'south Venice show Feeling Her Fashion is gentle and tasteful, with an underlying electric current of social critique, but information technology doesn't soar

  

• Anish Kapoor'south Venice sculptures are gimmicky but crepitation with blackness magic

  The highlights of the artist'due south powerful new exhibition are some strange black sculptures made with his own licensed pigment

  

In depth

More stories

• Knightly, review: Steve Coogan stars as sleazeball in smart satire on Hollywood and sexual politics

  Channel 4's comedy-drama is a refreshingly mature and nuanced take on the post-MeToo motion-picture show-making manufacture

  

• Punchdrunk: The Burnt Urban center, review

  This major new piece of work past the immersive pioneers has some good ideas, simply lacks the surprise of their greatest work

  

• Put your claws away, theatregoers – and requite Jodie Comer a suspension

  The Killing Eve star'south West End debut seems to be a hitting with fans. But the transition from screen to stage doesn't always go smoothly

  

• At the Venice Biennale, surreal joys are in, Putin is out – and the stale males are hanging on

  The 59th edition of the art caricature pays tribute to Ukrainian heroism while delving brilliantly into the weirder corners of our minds

  

• Roar author Cecelia Ahern on why her stories aren't trying to get-go a gender war

  Ahern's stories, adapted for Apple TV+, include one well-nigh women refusing a man a vasectomy. But, she says, her piece of work isn't out to blame men

  

• Henry 6: the RSC is back with a show of strength

  Using a non-professional person chorus for this clear and compelling adaptation of Henry Half-dozen feels intelligent, not gimmicky

  

• Every Inside No 9 episode ranked

  What'southward our No 1? And, crucially, what'southward at No nine?

  

• What'due south on TV this night: Chivalry, The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe: The Real Story, and more

  Your complete guide to the week's television receiver, films and sport, beyond terrestrial and digital platforms

  

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