WINNERS, WAGS AND WRONGS Well, here's a summer romp.  Hot on the heels of Tom Hiddleston in a disco version up Drury Lane, here's the RSC take on one of the sunniest Shakespe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:17PM[SHARE]TWO WOMEN, LONG YEARS ACROSS HALF A CONTINENT Â Â Â 1935: below projected headlines about Communists executed in Shanghai and the war between Japan and Red China comes an audition c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:18AM[SHARE]A HAMLET THAT STANDS ALONE "is it not monstrous that this player here,But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,Could force his soul so to his own conceitThat from her working all his visage w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]RIEN TO REGRET!  This is a terrific, impassioned production: not only does Kimberley Sykes' direction and Michele Meazza' s movement work keep it watchably, startlingly vigorous, Â�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:25AM[SHARE]TRAGEDY WITHOUT A MORAL   Raoul Moat used steroids and bulking-powder to armour himself in muscle, nourished a bottomless well of grievance and self-pity , and imposed his ne…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AM[SHARE]THE DEPTHS BELOW THE WIT   The plays, ever revived, we know well; the wit is often cited, the old injustice of his downfall recreated in plays and films: most recently we…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]VENEZIANA !    Buongiorno to Venice 1730, a city stage topped with the golden winged lion of St Mark, arched and curtained and lit with candelabras . Overhead a twelve-pie…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AM[SHARE]DARK FANGTASY IN A SCAFFOLDING CITY Â Â For this compact and creepy little atmospheric treat, John Donnelly turns to vampires. That's not a spoiler: the programme is full of learned st…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59AM[SHARE]BEYOND QATAR…       Two years ago this show was a pleasure " (https://theatrecat.com/2023/06/21/dear-england-olivier-se1/) , and now, on the far side of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]POWER, MAJESTY AND JUSTICE      Very good to see this intense three-hander by Ryan Calais Cameron (who gave us "For Black Boys.." ) migrating to Shaftesbury Avenue wit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46PM[SHARE]THE 1660's AND ALL THAT:  THEATRE REBORN     Oddly, for theatrecat it's the second day running of enliveningly energetic female history. After six women told the story…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03PM[SHARE]A ROUSING RACKET TO HONOUR A LIFE   Mary Wollstonecraft was a pearl of the 18c Age of Reason, even more treasurable for having " as a woman " a harder time of it than all the Loc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:19AM[SHARE]THE UNSERIOUS UNDEAD  "You will be horrified!" The five players announce, "- one way or another". And with a flourish they hurl Bram Stoker's book behind them into Tijana Bjelajac's�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]A STRANGE WARTIME FABLE OF LIFE, BIRTH AND JEWELLERY Â In a little Jeweller's shop in 1942Â Paris Joseph Haffmann is making a deal with his young assistant Pierre. Â He is Jewish, a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PM[SHARE]AN ANCIENT BRUTALITY, RIGHT HERE     Five women from the past mount the stage, candlelit, to enact theterrible story of the 17c Suffolk witch-trials.  First there…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:25AM[SHARE]BRUTAL, VIOLENT AND TENDER   Around a King's coffin surge personalities and politics , power plays and lineage . A royal bier is loaded with crown and jewelled cross, around …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Â HEROIC STORY, NEAR MISS Â Â It could hardly be a better theme and story for this terrific little theatre, which since its opening has explored the darkness of Nazism and the heroism…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AM[SHARE]A TROUSER-LEG TSUNAMI AND A COATHANGER DREAM     They came off the boats: a Windrush generation, wanting to work and live in cold strange Britain.  In an upper…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AM[SHARE]HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD     This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]A RAVE IN MESSINA Get da kids into Shakespeare! The world worries about it. So Jamie Lloyd hits a formula hard to beat with one of the sunniest comedies (only one pretend death). So …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]MOTHERHOOD, FOR LIFE     Had there been trigger warnings they might add "extreme nursing" alongside the usual alerts about sickness, death, abortion and conflict. Believe …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]A THREAT CALLED AGGIE . Good when the news feeds theatre-moments. This week, AI solved in two days a medical conundrum which had baffled humans for a decade. On the other hand,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write "merchant of Vegas"…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]RICHARD II     Bridge Theatre, SE1  A THRILLING DANCE AROUND A CROWN    This is one of the most lyrically lovely, metaphorically rich of Shakespeare's…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05PM[SHARE]A TRICYCLE MADE FOR THREE?   After Mike Bartlett's COCK " where one of a gay male couple falls for a girl " I wrote that the poor sap of a hero thinks he he choosing a sexuality …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:52AM[SHARE]A BRITISH BASTARD STALKS THROUGH HISTORY   What's to be done about truly awful people: amoral, selfishly irresponsible, arrogant and greedy? A time-honoured British appr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]  A GREAT TURNING POINT, CAUGHT IN ASPIC  It is 1942.  Prime minister Churchill has travelled to Moscow to meet Stalin. Each side has a problem at home with voices wanting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PM[SHARE]WILD SHORES IN WARTIME   Risk taking a gap between seeing David Greig plays and you forget how downright louche things are likely to turn out. (I had lately revelled in Prudencia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindraand Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de force. Ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AM[SHARE]   ABSURDITY AND SUBLIMITY After the glorious Parisian detail of the revived Rigoletto here , Johannes Schutz' spare bland box with only four flat doors is an opposite take…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AM[SHARE]A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]
