Wednesday, January 22, 2014
WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! BUT AGAINST WHAT??? The world is changing. “Women are standing for President, men are exfoliating” Don, an amiable klutz who used to teach but fell back on a q…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15PMMonday, January 20, 2014
THE PITY, PHOTOGRAPHS, AND FASCINATION OF WAR A howl of Arctic wind subdues the settling audience, facing one another from benches across a snowy floor. Screens informs us that all the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PMSaturday, January 18, 2014
SPOOKS, SECRETS , SEDUCTIONS If you are, like me, addicted to Spooks on television and to the deeper-rooted psychologies of John le Carré, Dawn King’s new play feeds the same hung…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:49AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
HORROR , BEAUTY, CANDLELIGHT It is a tiny jewel-box, this new indoor playhouse: a reproduction of the Jacobean theatres which succeded the wooden O of the Globe. Clean pale wood benches li…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51PMMonday, January 13, 2014
A VIRTUOSO BECKETT TRIO It’s a weird hour, this, even for late Samuel Beckett. Three short solos, performed by Lisa Dwan in an impressive feat of memory and mood, meditate on…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:46PMSunday, January 12, 2014
AUSSIE DINOS RULE There is a good reason why frazzled British parents cherish Australian nannies: and every cheerful, firm, gung-ho, reliable quality we dream of is exemplified in Lindsey Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:06PMFriday, January 10, 2014
ECHOES OF ANGLO-IRISH ANGST: CRITIC STRUGGLES TO SYMPATHIZE Full personal disclosure: having a longstanding connection with Ireland I am not a natural empath for the Anglo-Irish Protest…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:45PMThursday, January 9, 2014
A TOE-TAPPING TOAD AND SLINKY STOATING With a caper and a thump and a hippety-hop, a flapping of laundry and a riverbank romp, the Royal Opera House has dipped a first (elegantly pointed) …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21PMWednesday, January 8, 2014
AND SO IT GOES ON… “Intrigue feeds upon itself” says Thomas Cromwell, in the second part of this magnificent and terrifying chronicle. We find Anne Boleyn restless, fiercel…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PMTHOMAS CROMWELL WALKS AGAIN. A NON-READER IS ENTRANCED. “Between Christmas Day and Epiphany God permits the dead to walk”. So says Henry VIII, sleepless in the dawn, summoning his …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:26PMTuesday, January 7, 2014
LOWLIFE , HIGH DRAMA AND DRINK The candles on our tables gutter in their glass shades, hands tighten round drinks, spurts of relieved laughter meet dry jokes, stillness respects mome…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:34PMSaturday, January 4, 2014
CANTERVILLE MEETS VAUDEVILLE - on the road Here’s a bit of fun to report, the last rich dregs of Christmas before theatrecat puts on a straight face and heads to Stratford.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59PMSaturday, December 21, 2013
…theatrecat.com will be back in the New Year with Wolf Hall and wartime and the new Wanamaker, and Beckett and Cleopatra and maybe even the odd panto. Thank you all, very much, for f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:42PMThursday, December 19, 2013
This is not a theatre-news website, but it wishes to extend sympathy to the audience and cast of The Curious Affair of the Dog in the Night-Time, and to Nica Burns and her staff at Nimax The…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:58PMSLEAZE AND SCANDAL IN THE SIXTIES There is a painfully beautiful song in the second Act of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s new musical about the 1963 Profumo affair, a potential classic. “Hope…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:47PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
NEVERLAND HAS ITS FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS RAISED You can tick off reasons why this is just what the RSC should do. A fresh commission from a rising playwright, Ella Hickson; an intellectual…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24PMTuesday, December 17, 2013
PLEBS AND POLITICS, SAVAGE AND STARK The plebs are angry, scrawling demands for grain on the bare back wall, modern in hoodies and jeans. They reckon the senators get all the good st…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PMMonday, December 16, 2013
LONELINESS, LONGING, A LINEN CUPBOARD: A HEARTSHAKING REVIVAL 1848 in rural Russia: early morning in the great house, maids opening up. High in the great linen-cupboard a man sle…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25PMSunday, December 15, 2013
JOYFUL DISASTERS FROM COMEDY MASTERS The director is grandiose as only a student thesp can be; his assistant (“Co-director” he snaps) surly. The actors playing Pan and Wendy are an i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:03PMFriday, December 13, 2013
TWERKING INFLATABLE ELEPHANTS! THAT’S MORE LIKE IT! For all my pleading I was unable to borrow a child for this 4+ production (school hours, bah humbug!) . But I sat next to one who …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:54AMThursday, December 12, 2013
STABBING, SHAGGING, SNIGGERING, BUT EVER SO STYLISH What is this neon box rising from the floor, with Matt Smith inside it? Can it be the Tardis? Nope: a sunbed, and the former Dr Who …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:49PMWednesday, December 11, 2013
A JEWEL FROM THE NORTH, AN ECHO FROM THE PAST Forget Acorn Antiques, fun though that was. Victoria Wood’s stage musical, written a couple of years ago for the Manchester Festival, has the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:18PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
LIGHT AS A FEATHER, FUNNY AS A QUACK There’s a lovely moment of finesse when Ben Miller, as a defecting New Lab MP in the dying days of the Brown government, is trying to impress on a To…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:29PMBRAND MEETS BEDELLA – BUT IT’S FLAWLESS THAT’S FLAWLESS! New lamps for old! It’s the motto of the best pantomimes : keep the shape of the old lamp – vaudevill…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:24PMFriday, December 6, 2013
CLERK ON THE RUN FINDS NOTHING WORTH BUYING. NOT SURE I DO EITHER. An absconding bank-clerk in search of raw primal experience settles on the thrill of a sports stadium. “Feel the life…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57PMThursday, December 5, 2013
DRIFTING SEETHING POETRY AND HORROR: A VAMPIRE AT THE COURT Unless you have spent recent years hiding (perhaps wisely) from teenage girls, you know that they have had their white little …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PMWednesday, December 4, 2013
CHILDREN STORM THE STAGE IN AN EMIL FOR EVERYONE Is there no limit to the depravity of the National Theatre? Forging 20-Reichsmark banknotes, a discredited currency, to flood an auditori…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM 
