…FROM ME AND FROM THEATRECAT.COM (&HOUSE ARTIST ROGER HARDY) HERE’S THE CAT AND THE MICE . THEY COLLABORATE FOR ONCE TO WISH EVERY THEATRE, ARTIST AND SUPPORT WORKER LUCK, SO…
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SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:56AMMONSTROUS AND MAJESTIC , A NARNIA FOR NOW How to interpret an old favourite? A Christian fantasy allegory, the world of Narnia, the first of C.S.Lewis’ immortal children’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMBEN DOWELL REVIEWS: A bright, socially withdrawn teenager called Evan is desperately lonely, taking comfort in the internet and not much else. He has a crush on a girl from his school, but c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39AMBEN DOWELL AND DAUGHTER POP WITH PLEASURE AT ITS PEP.. It has floated in one the chilly autumn breeze like a much-needed blast of summer sunshine. Yes, this Mary Poppins is as supercalifragi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PMA BIG APPLE ROMANCE WITH CRUNCH How romantic New York is to the British heart! From Superman to Friends we seem to know it, from Elf and 34th Street (not to mention the Pogues…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:52PMNORTHERN GUEST REVIEWER HELEN GASKELL TIRES OF THE RELENTLESS GRIT… A family of five, scattered across the North of England, are brought together by tragedy. The play shows a picture …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:19PMARROGANCE, ANGER , INDIA’S SHAME Hema’s is a house of women now. The old grandmother is in bed below the tall screen doors , feeding crows who move shadow-shapes behind…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:16AMGUEST CRITIC BEN DOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD NIGHT OUT What a strange evening this is. Young director Tinuke Craig has taken Maxim Gorky’s 1911 play (there was a revision in 1935 but s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AMRENAISSANCE RUTTING, VENUS AND VANITIES Sandro Botticelli, he makes clear to us at the start, plans to tell his version. He’s Dickie Beau: skinny and swaggeringly queeny in blac…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:54PMIT TAKES TWO… Here’s a sharp eyed little gem about coupledom and the wary, fretful road towards parenthood in an age of easy contraception and illimitable expectation…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AMTWO CURATORS, ACROSS EIGHTY YEARS The little Swan , a jewel-box of a theatre, often sees the new plays the RSC does best: immaculate technique and careful clarity elucidating complex…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:34AMINSPECTOR GOOLE, BACK BACK ON THE ROAD Below, edited, is my original London review of this remarkable production. This new tour deserves to be marked, though: regarding the t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46AMA COOL EYE ON SHATTERED LIVES Of all the well known flaws of our criminal justice system, one of the most glaring is how badly it fits women – though they are only around…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMTHE DARK AND THE CRAZY This is – for us anyway – the first production in the Trump era of this savage musical: a revue reimagining of all the attempts, successful or not,�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AMPEOPLE OF THE BLITZ Sarah Waters’ best novel, evoking lives during and after the London Blitz, was told backward in time. It is much the same way, indeed, as we meet real people�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:41PMTHE LOW DISHONEST DECADE… It’s always intimate, the Jermyn,. We’re in an autumn garden, apples on the ground and fading roses on the wall; birdsong, and a tea table set defia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMA COLLIDING WORLD Couldn’t miss this: for two years as a teenager (Dad in the Jo’burg Embassy) I lived alongside the frightened, arrogant paranoia of white South Africa un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18PM15 CHARACTERS OBJECTING TO AN AUTHOR.. The Jane Austen industry never flags, in tribute or in parody. You can barely throw a bonnet without hitting an Austentatious improv, popcor…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:45PMKING JOHN WAS NOT A GOOD MAN… Maybe we should stick to AA Milne’s version? “King John was not a good man He had his little ways And sometimes no one spoke to him For days an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AMGLOBAL AND GENDER POLITICS IN PERFECT MINIATURE A glass conference-centre in the host nation France; a visiting US President avid for airstrikes after a terrorist outrage , deman…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:34PMGUEST REVIEWER BEN DOWELL SAYS HANKS FOR THE MEMORY , AND BRAVELY FACES THE WEIRDNESS This is a lavish revival of the 1996 musical version of the 1988 Tom Hanks fantasy comedy, complete w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AMTHIRTY YEARS LATER AND STILL FURIOUS: HEDDA’S BACK Last night, while Parliament spiralled into disorderly, resentful confusion and Mr Bercow dramatically put an end to himself a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PMOLD TIMES, OLD SORROWS: BEFORE THE RAINBOW With Parliament in uproar upriver , the NT hit a luckily apt moment to stage Simon Woods’ first play and promote it as a “witty and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SWOONS OVER SWASHBUCKLING AT GRIMEBORN Director Emma Jude Harris “couldn’t believe her luck” when she discovered Cabildo, the only opera by pioneering…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:10AMBITTERLY BRITISH It was a good mix of ages in the Curve audience, so perhaps a public service to remind the rising generation, awash in Brexindignation, that Utterly-Despairi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:05PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS JOPLIN TROUBLINGLY FUN Scott Joplin was rightly proud of Treemonisha, an opera for which he wrote both libretto and score; it was never fully staged in …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:14AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT THE OPERATIC POTENTIAL OF SIGNDANCE The double bill of Gillian Whitehead’s Hotspur with Schoenberg’s great Modernist Pierrot Lunaire is the fir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PMA STRANGE RESURRECTION, BETWEEN WARS A red sun was setting beyond the trees as we gathered around a square, isolated house in the golden-hour splendour. Here the land rises abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DIMNESS RATHER THAN DAWN AT GRIMEBORN If Aylin Bozok is directing anything at Grimeborn, I always try to go. I’ve been absolutely blown away by her pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS NOT MUCH UNFOLDING AT GRIMEBORN I have to admit – I’m a sucker for a bit of rarefied Japanese elegance on stage in almost any context: the very ment…
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