MEMORIES OF A MAVERICK It’s an immersive show, in that you buy a drink in the cramped saloon of the old pub on Greek Street, find a corner, and ideally fall into conversation with anoth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PMWHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies’ …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:12PMTHE FIRST WITCHFINDER, NOT WITHOUT LESSONS FOR TODAY This is remarkable, Joanna Carrick’s best and deepest play yet, following her acclaimed Reformation trilogy. In its sm…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:44AMA MOTHER’S LIFE, A SON’S PERSPECTIVE Sometimes it is almost useful to be a day late (sorry, tied up yesterday) because it gives a chance to read other people’s take on the play you s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25AMGENIUS, REALPOLITIK, RELIGION In days of horrifying conflict there was quite a jolt in a confrontation between Stephen Hagan’s resplendently silver-suited Frederick the Great a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AMPROPERTY RAGE FROM ANOTHER AGE Here’s a curiosity from 1972; an early , rarely-seen Caryl Churchill play revived with dashing elegance under the Jermyn’s Artistic director Stella Pow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PMGRIM AND PURE BY THE DOCKS, PITY AND POETRY The lawyer Alfieri, prowling in memory round Arthur Miller’s stark tale of immigrant longshoremen on the 1940’s Brooklyn docks, speak…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12PMA LEARNED FRIEND REMEMBERED Rumpole of the Bailey is occasional comfort-viewing in our house, thanks to Talkingpicturestv repeats. John Mortimer’s portrait of the old barrister a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AMITS THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL? Not if Lloyd can help it. It felt strange to see this in the bowels of a gala-night Savoy, only a week or two after our local arts centre showed the 1950…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMIT’S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still a lot o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMTHE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals. Onstage is a photographer’s white…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:33PMA TANKFUL OF EMOTIONAL TENTACLES Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables? Upstairs we h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AMPHONETICALLY PHABULOUS Last time Bertie Carvel was on this stage it was as Donald Trump. Now our best shapeshifter is Henry Higgins: capering, swearing, somewhere on the far side of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:17AMTHE INFECTION OF WICKEDNESS The history of the Lodz ghetto in Poland is a part of the Holocaust story worth foxusing on, ot least because the Jewish population there were made …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:04PMLAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEY YET AGAIN… Daphne Du Maurier’s story is almost a national myth, what with the grand house on the towering cliffs, the terrifying housek…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18AMLOSS AND GRIEF IN A SILICON WORLD In a bleak grey minimalist space Merril (a restlessly gamine Myanna Buring) is grieving her much younger sister Angie, who has vanished, pre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:55AMINDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed with fl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AMSHOOT, SCORE, SPARK! This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women’s turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here’s another neon strip lig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AMA SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron in a bonnet watches her flighty daughter toss…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AMFOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week: just what the irritable heatwave needed. This, which I caught in a late previ…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AMWHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Adaego.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AMHAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye. You might expect it at Albin’s anguished ‘I …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PMDOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o’Neill as paid subjects in an antid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AMFORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force which e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AMSORROW AND SUSPICION This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perform in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMA CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids “the more highbrow sort”. She was in the right place, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PMTHREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULE Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews – largely I suspect because Michael Wynne’s play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMNEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS Now here’s a perfect gig for us 1970’s leftovers, though I suspect today’s young rockers will also love the shiny leat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PMOLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY Of all the places you’d expect to see Quentin Crisp – even as a ghost or tribute – one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PMTRAGEDY, JOKES, ORACLES, SINGING SHEEP AND A BEAR After last year’s storming Macbeth, Red Rose Chain returns to the wooded site at Sutton Hoo for its second big outdoor …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54AMTHE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN? Tanika Gupta’s play is a sprawling, angrily intimate epic about Indians in Britain during the height of empire, thirteen years running up to old Queen V…
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