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We were bound to get a bad Curry game at some point, and when it happened the attention would turn to which of the Warriors players would pick up the slack.

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With the win, Curry and the Warriors can close this series out at Boston's TD Garden on Thursday night in Game 6.

Providing Curry help on the offensive end was something that all of the Warriors' supporting cast mentioned was essential in Game 5 and they did just that to help lead Golden State to a double-digit victory. While Stephen Curry had carried the team to this point, the Warriors provided him with plenty of help in Game 5 as four other players besides Curry - led by Andrew Wiggins and his 26 points - scored in double-figures for Golden State. Just two seasons ago, the Warriors finished with the worst record in the Western Conference at 15-50 and now they are on the cusp of their fourth title since 2015. Golden State leads the Boston Celtics, 3-2, in the 2022 NBA Finals after the team's 104-94 victory in Game 5 on Monday night. The Visit, meanwhile, is staged with such exuberance and invention that it feels shorter than its three and a half hours – another sign that length and value are a complex theatrical equation.The Golden State Warriors are one win away from continuing their dynasty with another championship. And Churchill’s later plays are so dense and concentrated that the 40-minute Far Away has an emotional and political heft leaving you feeling as if you’ve seen an epic Shakespearean tragedy. A quid a minute to see an actor of the quality of Roger Allam in A Number seems to me a good deal. Your view of what represents value will depend on individual stamina, finances and theatre-life balance. But do such calculations make a difference to your willingness to pay? Someone buying a ticket (£15-£89) for The Visit is paying from around 7p-42p per minute, while All of It (£14-£25) works out at about 35p-62p.

With Old Vic tickets selling at £8.50-£125 (not counting £150 charity performances), seeing the Beckett double bill amounts to a price-per-minute of around a seventh of a penny to £1.13. A more formal two-play evening can be found at the Old Vic where, perhaps worrying that Samuel Beckett’s 85-minute Endgame wasn’t enough, even with Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming in the cast, it has been paired with the 25-minute Rough for Theatre II, a rarely seen curiosity that was a pleasant revelation to me. This effectively creates a double bill, although one that requires buying separate tickets. The Royal Court caters for those wanting longer entertainment by running All of It at 9.30pm, soon after Poet in Da Corner, a 70-minute show that plays at 7.30pm on the same stage. Not hanging around … Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming in Endgame at the Old Vic. Remarkably, the combined running time of all three is still less than Tony Kushner’s three-and-a-half-hour adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Visit, which has just opened at the National Theatre. The main stage at the Royal Court is also running performances of Alistair McDowall’s 40-minute monologue All of It.

Another Churchill short, A Number, is being revived at the Bridge theatre, with the advertised running time “around 60 minutes”.

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This time, it’s a full evening on a main stage. Those familiar with Far Away, Caryl Churchill’s fable of a totalitarian state, will know of its brevity, but the play has generally been seen in studio spaces (including its 2000 premiere at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs) or double bills. The shock comes not from the warning of “strobe lighting, loud noises and haze” at the London theatre but the running time: “40 minutes”. P eople do a double take at the advisory notice outside the latest production at the Donmar Warehouse.