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Joan Littlewood has a lot to answer for – but Fings Ain’t With They Used T’Be’ makes up for it

Plus: an adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun is upstaged by a Stop the War Coalition talk

Bang on the money: Gary Kemp and Stefan Booth in ‘Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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