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<p>Neil LaBute: ‘The idea that we should be deprived of deciding when our life might end is maddening’</p>

My mum was begging to die – I wish I’d been strong enough to help her

Award-winning playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute draws from his own well of experience for his new play about assisted dying, ‘How to Fight Loneliness’

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How 25 working-class Salford kids became a theatre troupe

<p>Chaotic evil: Paddington Bear in last year’s ‘Paddington in Peru’</p>

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How Paddington became totally unbearable

<p>Unhappy in love: Kate Fleetwood and Ewan McGregor in ‘My Master Builder’</p>

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Ewan McGregor comes undone at the party from hell in My Master Builder

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<p>‘Manhunt’ follows writer-director Robert Icke’s Olivier award-winning production of ‘Oedipus’ last year</p>

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Manhunt is an intense study of Raoul Moat but its message is uncertain

Samuel Edward-Cook is effective as the prowling fugitive, but Robert Icke’s risk-taking production is not as compassionate as it makes itself out to be

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<p>Off duty: Patrick Bringley was a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 10 years</p>

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How a grieving museum guard found healing in art – and now a play

In 2008, Patrick Bringley took up a post as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art after the untimely death of his older brother. Now, 17 years later, he’s preparing to talk about his experience in an off-Broadway play inspired by his bestselling memoir. Tom Murray joins Bringley where it all began: the Met