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Published: 28 February 2008

In the wings

• NUNS and musicals make for odd bedfellows, with a few famous exceptions (Sound of Music?), but this has not dulled the ardour of the Hackney Empire.
Next week their tribute to taciturn art enthusiast Sister Wendy Beckett – called, strangely enough, The Sister Wendy Musical – bursts into song, apparently with the blessing of Sister Wendy herself. Gay Soper plays the number one nun from March 4.

• IT’S been an acclaimed novel, film and most recently a play; now One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest finds new legs as a street dance spectacular.
Featuring the music of Missy Elliot, Dizzee Rascal and Cypress Hill, Insane in the Brain takes breakdancing fans into a psychiatric ward run by a tyrannical ballet-obsessed nurse.
It begins this week at the Peacock Theatre in Holborn – just don’t expect to see Jack Nicholson bodypopping.

• FOR those interested in getting to the root of the inspiration behind Hampstead Theatre’s latest – Three Sisters on Hope Street – its playwright Diane Samuels will be on the psychotherapist’s couch tonight (Thursday).
Samuels reveals her inner workings to Dr Ruth Barnett as part of the Connecting Conversations series at the Swiss Cottage playhouse from 8pm.
For information visit www.connecting conversations.org

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