ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN    We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dead, his stripling son married to pretty French…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]DO WE STILL LOVE ROOSTER?   So it's back, another St George's day before a west country village fair.  Twelve years on from Jez Butterworth's glorious shock-troop assault on…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]THE ORANGE MONSTER RIDES AGAIN  The first thing to say is what everyone has said: that Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump is magnificent. Eerily so, capturing not only the ex-Presiden…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]THE LOST BOYS OF THEATRE…   The tiny Actors' Centre is reborn under its new name, and since this play is set in what was a traditionally febrile, theatrical, subversively ar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:08AM[SHARE] QUEER AS FOLK BY THE INFINITY POOL Jeremy O Harris is a much feted American playwright (a Tony for Slave Play) adept at drilling in to the moment: BLM, fashionable white guilt, sh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03AM[SHARE]SCIENCE, SIBLINGS, SOUND AND FURY   This is a satisfying play. To take a painting analogy, it satisfies not in the way that a perfect still-life vase might, but more like a Ka…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]CAMPING ON THE PLANKING At the Coliseum last autumn Gilbert and Sullivan's seagoing Savoy Opera was immense, with a huge revolving ship, Les Dennis as the first sea lord, a massive chorus an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]THE SHADOW OF A BEGINNING, ALABAMA 1936Â Â Â Â Forget, for the moment, both the fame and the the arguments over Harper Lee's classic novel:Â Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation is …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:33AM[SHARE]WELCOME BACK, BITING SHARP AS EVER   In 2010 Bruce Norris' play wowed the Royal Court: this is a ten-year anniversary (well, plus two years lost to Covid) so forgive me for quotin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]THE ROUGH TOUGH BIRTH OF A CITY Â Â It is not often I resort to drawing in the notebook, but there it is: half an hour into the first part of David Hare's play about the city planner Ro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]A PLAY IS A PLAY IS A PLAY IS A WEDDING   With typical wit, the doughty little Jermyn has captured an intellectual-farcical oddity from New York complete with author-director …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Mike Bartlett's play Cock now playing at the Ambassadors Theatre, London. This post REVIEW: Cock, Ambassadors Theatre, London �
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:42AM[SHARE]BRACING, BELTING, BENIGN    At the end of the evening the great diva, director and muse informs us that we too must sing. In a packed house, on the far side of a pandemic whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:41AM[SHARE] LEARNING TO LIVE     Sometimes judging others harshly is a relishable guilty pleasure. In Ruby Thomas' wonderful 80-minute sequence of snapshots of family therapy,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]NOT A FINE ROMANCE Â Â Mamet plays are Marmite plays. You can applaud Speed the Plow, adore Wag the Dog on screen, and have a pleasurable argument with the opposite sex after a particu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]LOVE AS AN UNCOURTLY CONTESTÂ Â Â In 2009 " and again in Chichester 2018 " I missed Mike Bartlett's mischievous, half-earnest play about a gay man wrestling with his identity (and h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]A VIGOROUS, HEARTSHAKING BRUSH OF OPPOSITES    Two artists in a studio:  the older one pale and floppily blond, languidly self-protective, drawling, preaching a cool…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]AN ORDINARY TRIANGLE TWISTS INTO NIGHTMARE     The French novelist-turned-playwright Florian Zeller hit the British theatre scene a few years ago with two comedies: The LieÂ�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:58AM[SHARE]HOMAGE TO A HEALING CHAOS    If " like Prince Charles " you grew up with the Goons in the background ("Ying Tong! Bluebottle! He's fallen in da water!" etc) this will ring be…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:31PM[SHARE]MIDDLECLASS MOUNTAIN MISERIES Â Â Â Inspired programming here. Â You'd find a decent overlap in any January Venn diagram of regular Donmar audiences and people who wish they were…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:29AM[SHARE]Puppets move the heart…    It was a third attempt ( like so many, it has had cancellations and suspensions), and I missed it in Sheffield 2019 through illness. So I bought …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:14AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our resident theatreCat Libby Purves returned to Hampstead Theatre to review Neil Leyshon's play Folk now playing in the Downstairs Theatre. This post REVIEW: Folk, Hampstead…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:55PM[SHARE]SONGS FROM THE LAND    There's a lovely serendipity here. The main theatre is running PEGGY FOR YOU (till 29th) while the little downstairs space has Neil Leyshon's r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AM[SHARE]PLAGUE YEAR Part 2 "  2021  Below, if you care to scroll , I chronicled the shows that met my return from chemo-then-lockdown in 2020.  An enfeebled theatrical year.  …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:55PM[SHARE]PART 1: THE ONSET   I set out, in this eerie Twixtmas gap, to chronicle and celebrate the return of live theatre since May 2021. And this will follow. But when I tott…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves paid a visit to Peggy For You at Hampstead Theatre. Until 29 January 2022. This post REVIEW: Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre âœâœ�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:57AM[SHARE]A SHARP , SERPENTINE, SUPERB PERFORMANCE Â Â Â Â Â Lounging in the small hours on her office couch, under a wall of posters for her many clients' shows " both famous and forgo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM[SHARE]A PRIMA DONNY JOINS THE FEARLESS FOUR   Last year as a family we came to see the doughty quartet doing this variety show, an adult-joking non-panto to fill the fearful gap. I…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:31AM[SHARE]1968 AND ALL THAT James Graham's mission might seem unfashionable: trawling 20c history and public culture, looking not for villains and heroes but for the nuances of human behaviour,Â�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35PM[SHARE]By Libby Purves Our theatreCat Libby Purves reviews The Book of Dust now playing at The Bridge Theatre where they are pulling out the stops for Pullman. This post REVIEW: The Book of Dust, B…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:10AM[SHARE]PULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR PULLMAN Â Â First things first: this is the most wonderfully evocative, romantic and dramatic bit of set-projection you will see all year. Bob Crowley, video …
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