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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

A View From the Bridge , Wyndham's Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Wyndham's Theatre, London: The Young Vic's multi award-winning production of Arthur Miller's drama moves to the West End with none of its considerable power dimmed. Read the full …

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Friday, February 13, 2015

Macbeth , Lost Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Lost Theatre, London: A young cast delivers a crisp and clear, but far too rarely engaging production of the Scottish play. The few original directorial touches have less re-interpretive eff…

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Monday, February 9, 2015

Othello , Rose Playhouse, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Rose Playhouse, London: Performed on the viewing platform of the archaeological site that is the Rose Theatre, Time Zone's Othello is reduced not only in cast size and running time but …

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Eric and Little Ern , St James Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

St James Theatre, London: Seen previously in the West End in 2013 and on tour before, since and hereafter, this salute to Morecambe and Wise follows the formula for such tributes by opening …

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Not About Heroes , Trafalgar Studio 2, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Trafalgar Studio 2, London: Written in 1982 and revised for later revivals, with the dialogue constructed largely out of the letters, poems and other writing of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sa…

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Who Do We Think We Are? , Southwark Playhouse, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Southwark Playhouse, London: From the memories and family stories of a company of actors ranging in age from early 60s to late 80s, Sonja Linden has assembled a collage of images and anecdot…

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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Just Like That! The Tommy Cooper Show , Museum of Comedy, St George's Church, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Museum of Comedy, St George's Church, London: One of two identically titled Tommy Cooper salutes that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer, John Hewer's show breaks with the co…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

My Perfect Mind , Young Vic, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Young Vic, London: Artistic autobiography, entertaining anecdotes, lashings of well-spoken Shakespeare, meta-theatrical commentary and the opportunity to spend 90 minutes in the company of o…

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Friday, September 5, 2014

The Flouers O'Edinburgh , Finborough Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Finborough Theatre, London: Set in the mid-18th century, <a href="http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2014/the-flouers-o-edinburgh.php" target=_blank>Robert McLell…

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Friday, May 23, 2014

John Ferguson, Finborough Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Finborough Theatre, London: This production suggests that 19th century-style melodrama can still carry power if played with full faith in the genre and the emotional reality. Read the full …

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Monday, April 14, 2014

A View from the Bridge, Young Vic, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Young Vic, London: Subjecting a very realistic and time-and-place-bound play to a non-traditional staging proves a successful risk for director Ivo van Hove who, by moving from a Brooklyn ap…

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Monday, February 3, 2014

Happy Days, Young Vic, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Young Vic, London: Previous actresses have tended to play Beckett's Winnie, buried up to her waist and then her neck in the ground, as an airheaded chatterbox, illustrating a vision of …

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Monday, November 11, 2013

King Lear, Minerva Theatre, Chichester by Gerald Berkowitz

Minerva Theatre, Chichester: Warming up for a run at New York's Brooklyn Academy of Music in January, Chichester's King Lear is strikingly free of intrusive directorial concept, as…

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Friday, November 1, 2013

The Potsdam Quartet, Jermyn Street Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Jermyn Street Theatre, London: Inspired by actual events, David Pinner's 1973 drama pictures a string quartet booked at the 1945 Potsdam Conference to play for Churchill, Stalin and Tru…

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The Dumb Waiter, The Print Room, London by Gerald Berkowitz

The Print Room, London: Jamie Glover's production of Pinter's short 1959 two-hander shifts its focus in intriguing ways. The tale, as often funny as eerie, of two gunmen tormented …

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Friday, September 13, 2013

The Last Yankee, The Print Room by Gerald Berkowitz

The Print Room: Arthur Miller's 1993 four-hander is set in a New England mental hospital, where two women suffering from depression are visited by their husbands and we gain some insigh…

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: Eh Joe, Lyceum Theatre by Gerald Berkowitz

Lyceum Theatre: This Dublin Gate Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's 1965 television play, being performed four times in the Edinburgh International Festival, is the same one that wa…

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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Daytona, Park Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Park Theatre, London: In 1986 New York an elderly Jewish couple is abruptly visited by the man's brother who they haven't seen in 30 years. He announces that in a Florida hotel he …

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Fences, Duchess, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Duchess, London: The 1950s chapter in August Wilson's ten-play cycle on the African-American experience of the 20th century, Fences is an intense and moving domestic drama whose power i…

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Public Enemy, Young Vic Theatre by Gerald Berkowitz

Young Vic Theatre: David Harrower's new version of Ibsen's Enemy Of The People runs barely ninety minutes, the extensive cuts and trims inescapably eliminating texture, complexity …

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Two Rooms, Drayton Arms, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Drayton Arms, London: An earnest attempt to explore every aspect of a complicated geopolitical issue, Lee Blessing's 1989 drama about terrorist hostage-taking in the Middle East repeate…

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Vanessa And Virginia, Riverside Studios, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Riverside Studios, London: Elizabeth Wright's dramatisation of Susan Sellers' novel about the sisters Bell and Woolf is presented through the prism of Vanessa's memories, from…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

The Winslow Boy, Old Vic Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Old Vic Theatre, London: Terence Rattigan's tribute to British determination and commitment to justice and honour gets a solid and respectful revival that sometimes seems to sacrifice d…

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Friday, March 8, 2013

Making Dickie Happy, Tristan Bates, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Tristan Bates, London: Building on the fact that Noel Coward, Agatha Christie and Louis Mountbatten separately stayed at the same Devon hotel, Jeremy Kingston imagines them there together, w…

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Monday, December 17, 2012

A Thornton Wilder Christmas, King's Head, London by Gerald Berkowitz

King's Head, London: Two early plays under 30 minutes long by Thornton Wilder are of great historical interest, both for inventing new theatrical vocabularies and for serving as preliminary …

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Friday, November 16, 2012

Golgotha, Tristan Bates, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Tristan Bates, London: Nirjay Mahindru's new play is made up of two separate but complementary monologues illustrating the experiences of Indian immigrants in Britain a century or more …

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Seagull, Southwark Playhouse, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Southwark Playhouse, London: Once past the initial small shock of seeing Masha as a goth, Anya Reiss's updating of Chekhov to the era of laptops and Ipods, and Russell Bolam's stag…

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Monday, October 8, 2012

The Hotel Plays - Green Eyes, The Travelling Companion, Sunburst, Grange Holborn Hotel by Gerald Berkowitz

Grange Holborn Hotel: Three short, late plays by Tennessee Williams add little to his reputation but offer small sidelights on his other work. Read the full review

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Fireface, Young Vic, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Young Vic, London: On one level a metaphor for the raging hormones and uncontrollable emotions of adolescence, on another a warning of how actual madness can be mistaken for adolescent hormo…

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Thom Pain (Based on Nothing), The Print Room, London by Gerald Berkowitz

The Print Room, London: The seemingly disjointed but precisely constructed ramblings of a man overcome by emotion, Will Eno's one-hour monologue is delivered by John Light with more of …

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Jumpers, Tabard Theatre, London by Gerald Berkowitz

Tabard Theatre, London: A murder on the moon, a second murder among acrobatic philosophers celebrating a political coup, a former musical star who can't sing June Moon songs any more an…

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