Friday, September 15, 2017
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DREAMS COMING TRUE IN MEDIEVAL NORFOLK In Norfolk, we tend to be quietly, fondly proud of our surroundings " with an emphasis on 'quietly.' The tradition of Norfolk un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
A PSYCHOTIC SAMSON AND HIS WOMEN "There is no such thing as the imagination" says August Strindberg indignantly. "Things are real or they are not.". Right now, holed up in a shabby ho…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PM[SHARE]THE CABMAN’S PROGRESS It couldn't be better placed, here in the arches below Charing Cross station. Under the venerable rules of London licensed cabs – dating back to the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2017
HARRIDAN OR HEROINE..? The feminist "Bechdel Test" for fiction says that there must be conversations between two women which are not about men. John Patrick Shanley's tight Pul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 26, 2017
THE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 24, 2017
SUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING Â AND SUPPER It often puzzles me why sharp little stage gems like this don’t get pounced on by TV, – notably the BBC – instead of commiss…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 22, 2017
A PRIMITIVE AWAKENINGÂ It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , Â murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour's set remains tenebrous , primitive. A w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES HUNGERS BUT DOESN’T GET A BYTE I’ll give them this; it’s timely. After the violence in Charlottesville, we’ve all been asking what on e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:20AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2017
A DELICATE TREASURE Rarely seen, half-forgotten, Githa Sowerby's 1924 play is sharp, entertaining, truthful and elegant: Richard Eyre's direction respects it with delicate prec…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT MARIANNE VIDAL Aylin Bozok's productions of French opera for Grimeborn have all been marked by their elegance, restraint and psychological intensit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 10, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT AT GRIMEBORN If you fancy being entertained like a French king, head to Grimeborn for Lully's Armide. Lully's artistic monopoly over …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 8, 2017
GUEST CRITIC TOM HOLLOWAY WISHES FOR AN UPDATE.. Originally debuting eight years ago at the Bush Theatre, Alexi Kaye Campbell's Apologia is a story of intergenerational …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 5, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS NUTTIN’ MUCH FROM GRIMEBORN’S REDUCTION OF GERSHWIN My suspicions should have been aroused by the fact that there was no programme for Porgy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:44PM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI WISHES SOMETHING ELSE WOULD DISAPPEAR AT GRIMEBORN The poems which inspired the mysterious song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared first appeared anonymously …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 2, 2017
PRETTY MUCH A BOOJUM I must admit I yearned towards this production – for 4 years old upwards, though there were some younger infants having a hell of a good time, even without …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
MICHAEL ADAIR, 25  ¾ ,  APPROPRIATELY TAKES OVER AND WRITES.. Before The Inbetweeners, the most accurate reflection of the total embarrassment of teenage life in Br…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 26, 2017
BOB AND CONOR: A NEW DIRECTION HOME… Bob Dylan songs – from each of six decades – woven into a musical by Conor McPherson? At Dylan's own suggestion? What? But he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]A COSMIC CLASH OF PHYSICS AND FAMILY Ah, now this is what the National Theatre is for1 A great reckless sprawl of a brand-new play, with spectacular technology, extraordinary design (…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AM[SHARE]Friday, July 21, 2017
FINE DINING AND FINANCIAL FURY Piquant idea, to open Oliver Cotton’s play about financial inequality in BBC Salary Embarrassment Week. Â While the inequity between multi-milli…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 20, 2017
With the news of its West End transfer in autumn – well deserved – Â I Â finally caught up with INK (reviewed here on opening night by Luke. I agree with his rating of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 19, 2017
FROM HIS MOUTH TO GOD’S EAR… We know Omid Djalili best as a comedian: one of our few Iranian standups. Great timing and great heart, a good Fagin but comparatively …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
NEW GUEST CRITIC THOMAS HOLLOWAY FINDS A NEW MUSICAL Arriving at the Charing Cross Theatre this weekend, in the wake of London's Pride weekend, is this transfer from the enterp…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:43AM[SHARE]Monday, July 10, 2017
A MODERN WORLD GROWING, BENEATH THE PERIWIGS I saw Helen Edmundson's marvellous RSC history-play about Anne's short reign some eighteen months ago; the review is here – h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
A GREAT HEART AND TALENT, Â REMEMBERED WITH LOVE O my days! If you have any feeling for jazz and blues, for women, music or the historic trials and triumphs of black America, don't …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:31PM[SHARE]Monday, July 3, 2017
THE MIRACLE THAT FAILED The subtitle is "The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall's Relationship with Kids' Company". Jos…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
WE DON’T OFTEN REVIEW TWICE, BUT THE SHORTAGE OF YOUNGER AND DIVERSE VOICES MATTERS…SO (ON HER OWN TICKET) Â JENNIFER-JANE BENJAMIN, Â A YOUNG LONDONER WHOSE OWN HERITAGE IS …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES GLORIES IN JAMES GRAHAM’S SUN BACKSTORYÂ It's a solid stunner of a play which has you punching the air for Rupert Murdoch by the interval. Bertie Carvel's …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 22, 2017
MILLENIAL  LUKE JONES TIRES OF THIS GENDER AGENDA There aren’t many issues in life that haven’t been solved, rationalised or  helpfully knocked about by plays…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 21, 2017
WHEN SHOCK BECOMES A SALES PITCH There are three acts: the first long, expressing an enervatingly pointless world and ending in a sharp shock. The second is competitively cynic…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
WHERE ROCK ‘ N ROLL DREAMS COME TRUE “On a hot summer night, would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?” Or in this case, a red carpet  lined wit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:21PM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
FOLLICLES, FOLLY, FATHERHOOD It's fun down in the Dorfman pit. Under exuberant African barbershop posters from Lagos, Harare, Accra – and London – a cast of barbers and cu…
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