INDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME   This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]SHOOT, SCORE, SPARK!  This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women's turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here's another neon str…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD    A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron  in a bonnet watches her flighty daugh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]FOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Â Â Â Â Â Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week:Â just what the irritable heatwave needed. Â This, which I caught i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]WHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS Â Â Â In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Ad…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AM[SHARE] HAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK   Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye.  You might expect it at Albin's anguish…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS  This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o'Neill as paid subjects in an ant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]FORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES Â Â This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AM[SHARE]SORROW AND SUSPICION Â Â This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. Â A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM[SHARE]A CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY      A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids "the more highbrow sort". She was in the right…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]THREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULEÂ Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews " largely I suspect because Michael Wynne's play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]NEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS   Now here's a perfect gig for us 1970's leftovers, though I suspect today's young rockers will also love the shiny le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]OLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY  Of all the places you'd expect to see Quentin Crisp " even as a ghost or tribute " one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PM[SHARE]TRAGEDY,  JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR    After last year's storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its secon…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AM[SHARE]THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN?   Tanika Gupta's play is a sprawling, angrily intimate epic about Indians in Britain during the height of empire, thirteen years running up to old Que…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AM[SHARE]A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS… Â Â Â Â Let it be said first of all that Gina Beck is a glorious gamine Maria:Â sings like a bird and is satisfyingly able to convey in her vo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:43PM[SHARE]THE WAY IT WAS Â Â Â Ah, the forgotten plays of the 30s and 40s, how they lure me to basements and pub rooms and tunnels:Â Jermyn and Finborough and Southwark in particular! Â …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:15PM[SHARE]BIRTH, DEATH, SCIENCE , ANGER     "The smell " the smell " the sheets…"  Curtain up, he is gripped by urgency, past or present. . Now a successful doctor home in Hun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]COME ON MY SONS…   At the end of the first half of this exhilarating play, England is through to the World Cup quarter-finals in Russia after several bracing straight wins and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56PM[SHARE]1926 AND ALL THAT, ON THE AIR Fresh from doing cartwheels in the Bake Off musical up the road, Haydn Gwynne is now a strangely convincing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin , in pinstripe. O…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]QUIET DESPERATION, NOISY GUNSHOTS "Everybody tell the story Everybody sing the song, Every now and then a country Goes a little wrong…" Â Â Â Â Hard for it not to feel topical,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:47AM[SHARE]HIGH NOTES AND KNOBBLY KNEES     I am a relative newcomer to Gilbert & Sullivan, having long thought I hated them (heard too many gammony fans in my childhood wrecking…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:43PM[SHARE]WELCOME BACK TO PUNXATAWNEY     Seven years after its premiere at the Old Vic earned a flurry of Oliviers, by way of a pandemic and a disappointingly short Broadway run , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]A TIME CAPSULE OF OPEN MARRIAGE  I am pleased to find out about Miles Malleson: an Edwardian student joker, WW1 conscientious objector, Bolshevist, founder of Left drama groups a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:53PM[SHARE]MOTHER RUSSIA's WARRING SONS Â Â Â Â Â At the Almeida this shook and delighted us last year:Â a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:38AM[SHARE]BIG SHOW, BIG HEART, SMALL SPACE     This, I urgently must tell you, is rather wonderful:  an example of the way that sometimes a big show in a small theatre can b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:39AM[SHARE]Â Â BACK TO THE OFFICE, EVERYONE! Â Â Â There is, by chance a bit of a Thing going on in theatre right now:Â women playing a particularly alpha type of men, with glee and an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AM[SHARE]WHEN DIVORCE WAS DISASTER   It's 1921.   Thirty years ago Lady Kitty ran out on her MP husband Clive and small son with his friend and colleague Hughie, exploding a public…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE]BORN TO LEAD..    This is a joy, quirky and full-hearted, musically adroit and fast-moving and witty.  Moreover, I suspect its self-mocking variety-show humour would …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]THE ROARING TWENTIES, ROLLING OVER THE EDGE When Noel Coward shocked and enthralled the 1920s with this most bitter and intense of his plays, he was meanwhile hastily finishing the farcical …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15PM[SHARE]GATHER ROUND AND HEAR AN OLD, OLD STORY… Â Deep breath, concentrate at the back:Â there's this Ancient Briton King, who once banished a chap who vengefully stole his baby sons, leavi…
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