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Monday, May 8, 2017

OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS Hampstead, NW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

AFTER SADDAM: WHAT’S LEFT WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY A TYRANT? An electrifying moment in this sharp, riveting play sees two bitter rivals, in a moment of stillness between blood-feud …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM

Thursday, May 4, 2017

ANGELS IN AMERICA : MILLENNIUM APPROACHES Lyttelton, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

REAGAN, RELIGION, AND REMEMBERING… Direct comparisons are dangerous, even when – as this week – two consecutive days see major works opening in London, both set in the 1…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:10PM

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

THE FERRYMAN Royal Court, SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

IRELAND OF THE SORROWS: THE KIDS, THE CRAIC AND THE KILLING It is 1982 in County Armagh. Not a good time to be Irish, not there. Not with internees still in the H blocks and ten r…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PM

CYRANO Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds by Libby Purves and Friends

NOBILITY AND THE NOSE on tour You’ve hardly sat down before there’s a jolly mass drinking-song in pantaloons, leather breastplates and hat-feathers being romped through in fr…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:32AM

THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI Donmar Warehouse WC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE DONMAR’S NEW VERSION OF BRECHT CRIMINALLY IRRESISTIBLE How do you get, keep and wield power? What do you use it for, and why? And, if you will sto…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM

Saturday, April 29, 2017

THE TREATMENT Almeida N1 by Libby Purves and Friends

BILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critical&…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53AM

Thursday, April 27, 2017

ROMEO & JULIET Globe, SE1 by Libby Purves and Friends

GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:40PM

FORTY YEARS ON Chichester Festival Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

1918..1968..AND NOW.. ALAN BENNETT’S ENGLAND In his 1994 diaries Alan Bennett described the funeral of a Dunkirk veteran in a village church. “crammed with the men who won the war…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:43AM

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

OBSESSION Barbican, EC2 by Libby Purves and Friends

VAN HOVE, VISCONTI, AND OUR JUDE London is getting used to Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. But his tremendous A View from The Bridge (in a bleak arena) and his striking NT …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PM

Thursday, April 20, 2017

THE PHILANTHROPIST Trafalgar Studios SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

A WINDOW ON AN IVORY TOWER… Full disclosure: I bought a ticket for an early preview, because press night was my husband’s birthday but I couldn’t resist checking out Chr…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PM

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

WHISPER HOUSE The Other Palace SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

GHOSTS OF WAR AND SHIPWRECK “When all the world’s at war, it’s better to be dead”. Pallid pessimistic ghosts roam around a lonely Maine lighthouse in WW2, with heaving sepia s…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:09AM

Thursday, April 13, 2017

THE PLAGUE Arcola, E8 by Libby Purves and Friends

A JOURNEY THROUGH A PLAGUE YEAR With the horror of Syria fresh on us, and Africa’s travails with Ebola still haunting, this sombre, unforgettable treatment of Albert Camus’ LA PES…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:27PM

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

SEA FRET Old Red Lion, Islington by Libby Purves and Friends

A CANUTE FOR THE AGE OF ANYWHERES This substantial début play by Tallulah Brown hits an intriguing syncope with David Goodhart’s much-discussed definition of the UK tribes. Not le…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM

Sunday, April 9, 2017

THE STRANGE UNDOING OF PRUDENCIA HART Eastern Angles Tour by Libby Purves and Friends

A WILD TALE FROM HELL’S BORDERS – on the road This enterprising regional touring company generally focuses on the East, whether John Clare or Arthur Ransome, Viking …

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:28AM

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

An Intervention, Palace Theatre, Watford by With The Simplest Of Designs By Lucy Osborne, and Great Music From Tom Gibbons (i Particularly Liked The Use Of Joe Cocker's With A Little Help From My Friends), This Engrossing and Entertaining Piece Ends On A Powerful Visual Image Of A Suicidal Mutual D

Palace Theatre, Watford: A smart two-hander, An Intervention begins with a drink-fuelled confrontation between A, a young woman who has just been on an anti-war protest, and her best friend,…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM

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