Macbeth: Leila and Ben - A Bloody History
The World Shakespeare Festival
Adapted by Lotfi Achour and Anissa Daoud
An Artistes, Producteurs, Associés Production
A Tunisian Macbeth where Shakespeare's malevolent tyrant and his wife are reincarnated as the equally diabolical modern-day duo, Leïla and Zine Ben Ali. Combining Sheakespeare's text with film and reportage this production interrogates the way Arab leaders ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Dark Side of Love
Roundhouse & LIFT production, directed by Companhia BufoMecânica performer Renato Rocha and inspired by Shakespeare's tragedies, The Dark Side of Love is a delirious and dreamlike journey into the depths of what we do for love. Performed by a cast of teenagers in an atmospheric underground performance space beneath the Roundhouse Main Space.
CAST AND CREATIVE
Director: Renato Roc ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Rest is Silence
The World Shakespeare Festival
A meditation on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
A dreamthinkspeak production
An ambitious textual and visual deconstruction of Hamlet interweaving performance, film and installation to create a vigorous new interpretation that cuts to the heart of the play. Meditative and dreamlike in quality, the hallmark of dreamthinkspeak's production, The Rest is Silence ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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THE TEMPEST
Shakespeare's Prospero is usurped from his position as Duke of Milan and cast away with his daughter to a remote island. Twelve years later, and intent on revenge, he raises a magical tempest that shipwrecks his enemies on his shores. What begins as a search for retribution develops into a journey of acceptance and compassion in Shakespeare’s final play.
CAST AND CREATIVE
Director: Michael ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Twelfth Night
Shipwrecked on the shores of a strange land, Viola believes her twin brother Sebastian drowned. Disguising herself as a boy to work in the court of Count Orsino, she finds herself
a go-between for the man she serves and the woman who refuses to love him.
David Farr directs both Twelfth Night and The Tempest. David is a playwright, screenwriter and stage director, whose plays have been perform ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Comedy of Errors
Shakespeare's joyful comedy of mistaken identity follows the fortunes of two sets of identical twins, accidentally separated at birth, then miraculously thrown together again. In a town the size of Ephesus, events like these can only lead to confusion.
The Comedy of Errors is directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi. Founder of the Palestinian theatre company ShiberHur, his productions for them include ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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TWO ROSES FOR RICHARD III
From Brazil, Companhia BufoMecânica brings a breathtaking production, combining Shakespeare's text with circus, multimedia, visual metaphor and aerial choreography. Inspired by Shakespeare's history plays, the bloody events of the War of the Roses are vividly re-imagined in a glorious black carnival of villainy, corruption and seduction. Two Roses for Richard III reunites two of Brazi ...
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Roundhouse
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London
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United Kingdom
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Alien Skies & Spiritual Ties
Alien skies and spiritual ties was founded by Paul Devlin & Les Wride who between them have over 32 years of experience and although their two subjects are different they both wish the same thing and that is to educate the public. They host conferences around the UK and their aim is to inspire and amaze you, both Paul Devlin and Les Wride are unique in their fields of study and bring unpre ...
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Phoenix Theatre
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Swindon
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United Kingdom
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THE AMATEUR STAGE EXPO
Presented in association with Josef Weinberger, The Amateur Stage Expo is an event for amateur theatre across the UK. Featuring exhibitors, performances, discussion forums and workshops, The Amateur Stage Expo will have something for everyone with an involvement in amateur theatre or anyone wanting to get involved.
The Amateur Stage Expo will be the first time in the UK that amateur theatre gro ...
Event at:
Business Design Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Theatre - Opera - Ballet - Shows
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Riverside Opera
Dido and Aeneas and La clemenza di Tito
This double bill concert is sure to delight opera lovers. Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is a masterpiece of English Opera. La clemenza di Tito is mature Mozart at his finest. An exciting evening's entertainment performed with period instruments and conducted by Oliver-John Ruthven. ...
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Landmark Arts Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Theatre - Opera - Ballet - Shows
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Circus Tricks
Circus Tricks, by Michael Henry and Adey Grummet, is set in the spellbound, fleeting world of the circus where laughter is tragic, tears are hilarious and wonder both wrenches the heart and makes it soar!
The knife thrower’s assistant cannot stand the pain of her secret love for the knife thrower, an acrobat fights the world through the bottle, his brother struggles to catch him one more time, ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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At Swim Two Boys
Earthfall presents
To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the same title novel by Jamie O'Neill, Earthfall revive their award-winning production with a UK wide tour.
The story is set before and during the Easter Risings in 1916. This was the beginning of the Irish Revolution which eventually led to the forming of the new Irish Republic and Northern Ireland as we know it today. The prod ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lovesong Masterclass with Frantic Assembly
A unique opportunity to work with Scott Graham, one of Frantic Assembly's Artistic Directors.
This high energy and physical masterclasse will offer new techniques in devising and movement and give a greater understanding of the creative process behind Lovesong.
After the workshop you'll get the chance to see the Frantic Assembly's new show on the main stage. ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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Compagnie L-Immediat - Camille Boitel
On a stage crammed with machinery, objects, junk and bric-a-brac of every kind, L’Immédiat is a tumultuous visual commentary on the uncertainty and mayhem of modern times.
In sixty minutes of beautifully orchestrated circus-theatre chaos, seven young acrobat-adventurers defy a tsunami of unstable forces with optimism, dark humour and breathtaking physical skills.
Created by the award-w ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Theatre Ad Infinitum - Translunar Paradise
Translunar Paradise is a story about life, death, and enduring love. After his wife passes away, William escapes to a paradise of fantasy and past memories, a place far from the reality of his grief. Returning from beyond the grave, Rose revisits her widowed companion to perform one last act of love: to help him let go.
Using a live accordion accompaniment, this exquisite piece of mask and mov ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Lovesong
Love is a leap of faith.
Lovesong intertwines the lives of a couple in their 20s with the same man and woman a lifetime later. Their past and present selves collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness.
Acclaimed writer Abi Morgan, whose film and television credits include Shame (Directed by Steve McQueen), The Hour and Sex Traffic, is reunited with award-winning company Fran ...
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Lyric Hammersmith
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cirque Du Soleil - Totem - Tapis Rouge
Cirque Du Soleil - Totem 2012
Tapis Rouge
Tapis Rouge... Your ultimate Cirque du Soleil VIP experience at the Royal Albert Hall
From 5th January 2012 until the 17th February 2012
Due to overwhelming demand Cirque du Soleil returns to London in 2012 with the hugely popular TOTEM, a fascinating journey into the evolution of mankind. Inspired by founding myths, this show colorfully brings t ...
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The Royal Albert Hall
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance
London Concert Orchestra
Richard Balcombe conductor
Gilbert & Sullivan Chorus
Simon Butteriss Major General
Alistair McGowan The Pirate King
Mark Evans Samuel
Oliver White Frederic
Charlotte Page Mabel
Abigail Iveson Edith
Anna Lowe Isabel
Rosie Bell Kate
Beverley Klein Ruth
Bruce Graham Sergeant of Police
An all-star cast of S ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Music and Dance from the Ballet
Dance:
Tchaikovsky Black Swan Pas de deux from Swan Lake
Adam Pas de deux from Giselle
Minkus Pas de deux from Don Quixote
Tchaikovsky White Swan from Swan Lake
Chopin Waltz from Chopiniana
Tchaikovsky Pas de deux from The Nutcracker
Music:
Tchaikovsky Excerpts from The Nutcracker
Delibes Prelude & Mazurka from Coppelia
Tchaikovsky Excerpts from Swan Lake
Weber Invitation to t ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Opera Gala
Bizet Duet from The Pearlfishers
Puccini Nessun dorma from Turandot
Bizet Flower Song & Song of the Toreador from Carmen
Verdi Sempre Libera, Prelude to Act 1 from La Traviata
Gounod Soldiers' Chorus & Avant de Quitter from Faust
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavakkerua Rusticana
Puccini Ah, Mimi & Act 1 Finale from La Boheme
Wagner O star of Eve from Tannhauser
Verdi Grand ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Henry VIII-s Christmas
It is December 1540. Henry VIII and his new young wife, Catherine Howard, will celebrate her first Christmas as Queen at Hampton Court Palace.
With songs, stories, music and dance - and the madcap humour of the king's fool, Will Sumer - everything looks set for a Christmas to remember!
But what to do about 'the King's dear sister' - his wife from earlier in the year, Anne of ...
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Hampton Court Palace
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London
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United Kingdom
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Cabaret Voltaire
Communist chanteuse Bernadette Byrne & half-man/half-woman instrumentalist Victor Victoria perform intimate stories, louche lounge covers and their own darkly comic songs, with the most delightfully depraved whimsy south of the 38th parallel as EastEnd Cabaret head West (via both the Adelaide & Edinburgh Fringe) with a special Xmas week show
FREE ENTRY from 4pm with a limited number of ...
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CELLARDOOR
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London
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United Kingdom
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Theatre-Rites - Mojo
Set your imagination free with this celebratory show.
In an enchanting new presentation for families, a riot of dance, puppetry and music takes us on a spectacular journey through the magic and mayhem of growing up. Bursting with energy and evocative movement, objects come to life and characters discover their mojo, igniting visual transformations devised by the award-winning team of Arthur Pi ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Duckie
Capitalism is collapsing and the criminal economy is taking over... so let’s go shopping! Step inside the Duckie superstore and witness the decaying arcades of branded Britain. Conspicuous consumption thrives in this promenade performance featuring saucy shopaholics, supermarket sweepers and sweatshop santas.
Purchase your dreams - love, peace and happiness - all boxed up as consumer durables. ...
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Barbican Centre
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London
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United Kingdom
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Christmas at the Cupiello-s (Natale in casa Cupiello)
Natale in Casa Cupiello, a play written by the great Edoardo De Filippo in 1931, is now part of Italy's Christmas tradition.
The plot
In Naples, Luca Cupiello and his wife Concetta, try to get ready for Christmas while their children Ninuccia and Tommasino complicate whole the preparations. Ninuccia is in love with Tommasino's best friend Vittorio and wants to leave her husband Nic ...
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Italian Cultural Institute
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London
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United Kingdom
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Pirates of Penzance
Orphaned pirates, flat-footed policemen and a bevy of blushing maidens (the pretty daughters of Major General Stanley) are all the ingredients for a fabulous recipe of Gilbert and Sullivan at their very best. Set on a Victorian seashore, elegantly recreating original period settings and costumes with exquisite detail, this production sparkles with wit and musical moments, all fully staged in the r ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Simon Callow in Charles Dickens- A Christmas Carol
Riverside Studios and Assembly presents
Simon Callow in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Directed and designed by Tom Cairns
Sound by Max and Ben Ringham
A Christmas Carol is the most famous book Charles Dickens ever wrote and one of the most daring. It has become “the” Classic Christmas Tale. As the Ghosts spirit Scrooge from his past to his present to his future, Dickens plunges ci ...
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The Arts Theatre
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London
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United Kingdom
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The Importance of Being Earnest - A New Musical
Bunbury Productions in association with the Old Sorting Office present
The Importance of Being Earnest - A New Musical
By Oscar Wilde
Starring Gyles Brandreth as Lady Bracknell
Directed by Iqbal Khan
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the greatest comedies in the English language, has been transformed into a hilarious, toe-tapping musical!
Gyles Brandreth (The ...
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Riverside Studios
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London
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United Kingdom
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Matthew Bourne-s Nutcracker
New Adventures' much loved production of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker! is one of the most popular productions ever staged at Sadler's Wells. It now returns for New Adventures' recordbreaking fifth Christmas season.
This delicious theatrical feast has family-sized helpings of Matthew Bourne's trademark wit, pathos and magical fantasy. Nutcracker! follows Clara's bittersweet ...
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Sadlers Wells
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London
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United Kingdom
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An Affair with the Absurd
An Affair with the Absurd _ György Kurtág, Péter Ötvös, György Ligeti
Through music, film and literature, ACM Ensemble immerses its audience in contemporary Hungarian culture, with all its eccentricity, wit and irony. Centred around part I of Kurtág’s monumental Kafka Fragments the program features music by key players in the country’s recent music scene as we ...
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International Anthony Burgess Centre
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Manchester
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United Kingdom
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