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26. Theatre: Value Engineering

Reconstructed verbatim from the Grenfell Tower inquiry hearings, this delivered a heart-stopping
précis of the chronic failures that lay behind the 2017 tragedy. Read the full review.

25. Dance: Scottish Ballet: The Nutcracker

The company’s modern tweaks to its charming Nutcracker turned out to be both subtle and
sensitive – and as for a female Drosselmeyer, well, why ever not? Read the full review.

24. Art: Paula Rego

Tate’s repositioning of the Portuguese-British artist as a tutelary deity for MeToo sensationally
reunited her series of monumental paintings of stocky she-devils. Twisted but powerful. Read the
full review.

23. Radio: Hunting Ghislaine

How did Ghislaine Maxwell end up the way she did? John Sweeney traces her extraordinary life
among the powerful and sordid (“a fairy story the wrong way around”) in LBC’s robust
podcast. Read the full review.

22. Opera: Der Rosenkavalier, Garsington

Triumphing over the virus with this socially distanced, scaled-down Strauss masterpiece,
Garsington scored a hit under conductor Jordan de Souza. Read the full review.

21. Television: Mare of Easttown

In this intricately plotted detective drama set in down-at-heel Pennsylvania, Kate Winslet
cemented her status as heir to Meryl Streep by mastering a Delaware accent. Read the full review.

20. Pop/Comedy: Latitude Festival

In July, the Suffolk festival marked the full-blast return of live music post-pandemic – and of
comedy, too, as headliner Bill Bailey got a field of 20,000 people all laughing as one. Read the full
review.