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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSACRED MONSTERS IN THE UNDERWORLD Deep darkness within the U-shaped seating,: into it on wheels glides the dark gondola: Charon the ferryman, after millennia punting to and fro across t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32AMSarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics’ picks of the best stage shows of the year • More …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AMA HIGH-KICKING WOODEN WONDER Serious fun, this. Never liked the Disney Pinocchio, or even in childhood the over-preachy Carlo Collodi book about the defiant wooden puppet who …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMPRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER. AND MELANCHOLY. AND FALSE NOSES In a play as familiar as this it is small touches that spring fresh life. Like the moment when the fool Feste def…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMSPRINGTIME FOR…EVERYONE Joyful, headlong and full-hearted, here comes sacred outrage. If director Patrick Marber and the Menier had been minded to issue wet ‘trigger warning…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AMMAZELTOV! JEWISH PANTO STRIKES AGAIN Goldie Frocks, rightful heiress to an East End schmutter workshop, has been enslaved by the evil Calvin Brine, whose behemoth of too-small c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:45AMFEARED IT MIGHT BE TUTU MUCH, BUT NO… I immediately fell for Frankie Bradshaw’s set: a two- storey house lined with fossil skeletons in cases, and a spirited opening in which th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:05AMLOOK BEYOND THE LETTUCE It is a tribute to Greg Wilkinson’s monologue play that I had not previously seen the rise and fall of Liz Truss as having a gripping dramatic line. It h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:31PMHIGH SPIRITS, HIGH COMEDY, EVEN HIGHER HEELS Elton John, who jumped at the idea of writing the music, calls the 2006 film a favourite; many of us nod in blissful agreement. B…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:55PMC’EST MAGNIFIQUE ! Napoleon, defeated at Trafalgar, vows revenge on Britain and its “bootlicking monoglot monarchists”. Stalking around in breeches and bicorn hat, Ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:26AMTA-RAN-TA-RA ! Mike Leigh, a veteran better known for films, Abigail’s Party and theatrical experiments with scriptless rehearsal, is also a dedicated devotee of the utterly scripte…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AMTHE COOLEST CAT IN LONDON. AND SOME RATS. Here’s your traditional Christmas outing, proper panto. No rackety popstar hype or tedious suggestive jokes from worn-out comicS…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:27PMGALSWORTHY ? WELL WORTH SEEING With late Victorians, there’s plenty to bite on: a rising bourgeoisie aflame with parvenu ambition, piety , pannier skirts ,patriarchs, an empi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:05PMWISDOM IN A LIFE BACKWARDS Forget the awful fim made from Scott Fitzgerald’s story about a life lived backwards – a man born in old age, working towards youth and infancy in reve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:44AMA JOURNEY OF JOURNEYS A map is a lovely thing, but sometimes practically speaking a diagram is better. And can also be lovely: especially when its useful elegance has become a fam…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:04PMTHE BIG RATHER UNFRIENDLY GIANT Tom Maschler, legendary publisher and once a Kindertransport child, summed up the appeal of Roald Dahl: his stories offer “A glorious p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:55AMWhat would happen if our arts critics and sports writers swapped roles for a day? How does the English National Opera compare to the Premier League … or the NFL to a West End musical? Our …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AM1648, Agra: marble and murder, a terrible beauty One of the worst photo-ops of Princess Diana’s collapsing marriage was that shot at the Taj Mahal, billed by romantics as “eternal …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:24AMLOOK BACK IN COMPASSION The Rattigan renaissance of the last few years is more than welcome: ever since Flare Path hit the West End fourteen years ago there seems to have bee…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:45PMTHE GRANDEST OF GRIEFS Not Renaissance Mantua but New York a century past: smart bars and low dives, gangsters in fedoras. Why not ? In any world might be a lonely jokester, missing his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11AMA short catch-up on one of the season’s greats (was away..) Mark Strong is made to play great tragedy: a long powerful body, controlled bleak intelligent features.A figure from any age…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:37PM“…HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB” That was the subtitle, when exactly sixty years ago a shower of Oscars fell on Stanley Kubrick’s brilliantly tasteless,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:26PMA HARD AND ICY WORLD A 1970’s Hull folksong chorus: “Next time you see a trawlerman on Hessle Road half tight – remember, o remember, the perils of that night”. It was a trib…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27AMBROTHER, CHRISTIAN, WITCHFINDER I reviewed this play about the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins last year, in Ipswich: I write only to add thoughts, now that it has deservedly…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMLEHMANS REVISITED The first time I saw Sam Mendes’ production at the NT, I exclaimed that the evening had no right to be so much fun: three hours, three chaps in black frock coats, no so…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:10AMCHOSEN PEOPLE, CHOSEN LIVES The saying goes “two Jews, three opinions”, though some say that’s an underestimate. Here are five people and innumerable opinions: two couples, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:58PMSent from my iPad ZELDIN AGAIN I sometimes feel real sympathy (possibly unwanted) for actors who, trained and motivated to channel and express extreme and painful emotions, do their absolute…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:00AMPOETRY AND PITY Tremendous swagged, fringed, and roped retro curtains , the Gielgud looking much as it would 100 years ago when Sean O’Casey’s most famous play reached Londo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46AMSHARP SCRATCH? Crossing the Edgware Rd yesterday a shouting vaccine denier with a loudspeaker informed us all, stomping past in some sort of hurry, that vaccines were lies, inoculat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02AMSTONED STONES IN WEST WITTERING, 1967 At the end the 1200-strong crowd explodes to join a final roar of “Satisfaction” with the cast – lawyers, police, fans, three generatons …
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