The Orange Tree Theatre is very good at Victorian and Edwardian plays with an ‘upstairs-downstairs’ theme, and Auriol Smith’s most agreeable revival of St John Hankin’s 1905 comedy T…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:59AMNo, I didn’t know that Beowulf was a panto story either. It may well be the first time that this Anglo-Saxon epic poem of uncertain authorship with a mythical Danish setting been adapted i…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:32PMThere surely aren’t many celebrity librettists, but comedian, impressionist and recent Strictly Come Dancing contestant Rory Bremner seems to be something of an exception. Being in the mid…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AMStephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s bittersweet Scandinavian waltz-time musical A Little Night Music (my favourite of the Sondheim canon) about love, lust and memory is one of the most per…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:59AMThe enchanting Wilton’s Music Hall resembles many things, including a bath house or forum with its high ceiling and immersive acoustics, making it an ideal setting for the grandeur and rut…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:40AMWhen I told a friend that I was going to see Noel and Gertie, he seemed surprised that it was being revived as it was very much aimed at audience members of a certain age when he saw it in t…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMThe Belle’s Stratagem is a play that even the most notoriously cross-referential critic would have trouble comparing to another version, as ‘lady playwright’ Hannah Cowley’s 1780 pla…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:45PMWilliam Kerley's staging of Mozart's 1786 opera Le nozze di Figaro is the fifth time that British You Opera have produced this much-loved piece since their second summer season in 1988. One …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:55AMThe neighbour who encourages the eponymous Pandora’s husband to open the mysterious box remarks, “Without curiosity, where would we be?” As an inquisitive person, a life without curios…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:50AMDames at Sea is an affectionate homage to frothy ‘a star is born’ 1930s musicals, a cross between 42nd Street, Anything Goes and On The Town. It premiered off-Broadway in 1966 starring …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:27AMLife upon the wicked stage ain’t ever what a girl supposes. There was certainly very little glamour to be found amongst the minor ranks of the Edwardian repertory system. The protagonist o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:02AMI always mean to see more theatre outside London, but find myself deterred by astronomical train fares, so I was delighted to be notified of Southern Rail’s 90% off sale. How fortunate, as…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:55AMInto Thy Hands begins with a speech about theatre and decay – very apt, considering that the future of the enchantingly distressed Wilton’s Music Hall is on shaky grounds after a major N…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:05AMAll things Scandinavian seem to be quite ‘in’ at the moment: Swedish crime drama is all the rage and there was a Woman’s Hour feature last week about how Nordic cuisine is curr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:00AMOne of the many provocative points raised by James Fritz’s faux-verbatim drama Lines (which premiered at the Rosemary Branch’s new writing festival last autumn) is what it means to ‘en…
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