Once more to the Camden Fringe and RADA's George Bernard Shaw theatre for the first night of an intriguing two-act play by my Player-Playwrights friend and colleague Peter Briffa. It's a sop…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:44AMAnother gem of a play at the Camden Fringe, written by my fellow member of Player-Playwrights, Jan Harris. It's a classic 'odd couple' one-acter involving a faded and sozzled Hollywood star …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:23AMWhy travel all the way to Edinburgh for fringe theatre when it's happening in London? This is a highly original play by Denise O'Leary which is a moral fable about the dangers of consumerism…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:46AMSummertime brings not only copious supplies of fruit and vegetables but a rich choice of theatre treats at a modest cost. The month-long Camden Fringe opened yesterday -- a brilliant alterna…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:16AM'Nobody Knows Anything' is the much-quoted verdict on the screen trade by one of the most successful scriptwriters ever, William Goldman. John Patrick Shanley's 1993 play is written from the…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:00PMI would love to be positive about this show at the Almeida by a company which has become a symbol of resistance to the dictatorial regime of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus, a place that mak…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:38AMSome people are never satisfied. The Young Vic, having rebuilt its leaky old building a few years ago, is now recreating the drizzly Connemara weather inside the theatre at vast expense. Tho…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:46AMIf Joe Orton were still alive, he'd be 78. As his biographer John Lahr wrote, he expected to die young, but he wrote his plays to last. Battered to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell when …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:52AM'Take a letter, Miss Jones.' And so she does. Sixteen-year-old musician's daughter Luise Miller (Felicity Jones) is forced to take up a quill pen and take dictation from the aptly named Wurm…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:55AMTime, I think, for a bit of light relief from theatre reviewing. Here is an oh-so-topical extract from the Edwardian classic novel ANTHONY BLAIR CAPTAIN OF SCHOOL. In chapter eight, the new …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:25PMWilly Russell's Rita was dead right about the radio being the best place for Peer Gynt, but sometimes radio plays can succeed brilliantly when they're done on stage. This show -- which runs …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:35AMI'm a bit worried about Kevin Spacey. His performance as Richard III at the Old Vic deserves all the superlatives which the critics have showered on it, but I hope his back muscles will stan…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 04:45AMVanishing Olympic tickets are one thing, but can someone explain to me why every single performance at the Donmar Warehouse between now and next February is allegedly sold out? I went to the…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 07:33PMAs the bard put it so memorably, Don't You Step On My Blue Suede Shoes. This is the production where Shakespeare meets Elvis, courtesy of that master of theatrical time travel Rupert Goold. …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 11:41AM'We will leave when we win,' says Siward the English general defiantly as the occupation of Scotland, designed to bring the lawless country quickly to peace, stretches on with no end in sigh…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 10:09AM"Do it on the radio" is Rita's memorable response to an exam question about how to stage Ibsen's Peer Gynt. "If they had had the radio in his day, that is where he would have …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 08:29AMRichard Jones is an opera and theatre director for whom the written word is less important than visual and musical impact. I first came across his work in a phantasmagoric Midsummer Night's …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 06:53AMArnold Wesker is the skeleton in the cupboard of British post-war theatre; still going strong and writing in his late 70s, he has been largely ignored for the last 30 years, rather like the …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 10:25AMI've always been fascinated by 1963, so imagine my delight at finding myself surrounded by a grey-haired National Theatre matinee audience stomping, clapping and shouting their appreciation …
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:58PMWhen does getting the audience to laugh turn into self-indulgent playing to the gallery? In the Guardian, Michael Billington, always lukewarm about the kind of theatre he finds at Shakespear…
SOURCE: John Morrison at 05:57AM