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This week's cultural highlights: Roberto Fonseca and Laura

25 March 2012 8:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now

• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below

Opening this weekTheatre

I Dreamed a Dream

SuBo is played by Elaine C Smith in this new musical based on the life of the Britain's Got Talent sensation, who has given her personal endorsement to this money-spinner – sorry, show. Theatre Royal, Newcastle (0844 811 2121), until 31 March, then touring.

Fierce festival

Birmingham gets ready for boundary-busting performances from UK and international performers, including Ann Liv Young, Playgroup and Graeme Miller. The festival takes place in unusual spaces all across the city, including the soon to be demolished library and under Spaghetti Junction. Various locations, Birmingham, Thursday to 8 April.

Film

The Hunger Games (dir. Gary Ross)

Suzanne Collins's teen bestseller is turned into an exciting dystopian thriller. Jennifer Lawrence stars. »

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Simon Hoggart's week: War Horse's stable closes its doors

2 March 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Twickenham Film Studios' sad end, gunfight at a vacant lot near the Ok Corral and Joely Richardson's family semaphore habit

✒ Round where we live we're very sad indeed about the likely closure of Twickenham Film Studios. Many great British and foreign films have been made there, including the Beatles movies, Alfie, The Italian Job, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Fish Called Wanda, Blade Runner and more recently My Week with Marilyn and War Horse. The studio, which occasionally brought a faint dusting of star glamour to our suburb, has been on the site for 99 years. Now there's a petition to save it, signed by among others Steven Spielberg, Colin Firth and John Landis.

There is some puzzlement about why it has gone into administration. Someone who works there told me this week that it had been badly managed for years. Now comes the horrible news that Taylor »

- Simon Hoggart

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Your next box set: The Monocled Mutineer

29 February 2012 6:39 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Paul McGann stars as first world war deserter Percy Toplis in this 1986 BBC drama written by Alan Bleasdale

"Here it comes," murmurs Paul McGann, watching a car full of armed policemen rumble towards him down a rural road in Cumbria. "Everything comes. Never ready for it, though, are you?" Drawing his pistol, he breaks off and addresses the viewer directly. "The funny thing was, when I had nothing to lose, I always won." A shootout follows and McGann's character is gunned down, then secretly buried in an unmarked grave with his tongue cut out.

So begins The Monocled Mutineer, the 1986 BBC drama about Percy Toplis, who led an army mutiny during the first world war and became the most wanted man in Britain. Six decades after his death in 1920, Toplis was still the scourge of the establishment. His televised story became one of the most incendiary dramas of the 80s. »

- Michael Hogan

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