Thursday, March 20, 2014
FJORDS, FATALITY, FRAGMENTATION The young man lies on the settle thinking about his dog. It's run off. His mother, stiffly repetitive between pauses, tells him he's a grown man and shoul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 19, 2014
SPIRIT OF '84 IN A BUDGET-DAY FARCE "Why is a civil servant from the Home Office posing as a Dr Christmas from Norwich auditioning an actor from Kingston?". Why is a hotel corridor a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 18, 2014
ANGELA LANSBURY BACK ON THE BOARDS, IN VERY GOOD COMPANY It is Angela Lansbury's hour and ovation, back on the West End stage at 88 after forty years away. We'd be on our feet out of mer…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:28PM[SHARE]Monday, March 17, 2014
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY: INSPIRING, INTIMIDATING, INVALUABLE The lad in the Army Recruiting Office listens enthusiastically to the Para behind the desk speaking of comradeship and adventure. B…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:53PM[SHARE]DEVILISHLY SILLY, BUT NOT STUPID Satan (Adam Long in plastic horns) came up to earth in human form in 1964 because he was "excited with what was going on in musical theatre", notably…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 15, 2014
Affluence has dented our buccaneering spirit, says Libby Purves
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2014
PREJUDICE AND THE PREMIERSHIP:  A GAY FOOTBALL STORY As gay shame and secrecy gradually fade from British life, one of the last frontiers is professional football. We know fro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 12, 2014
THE MAKING OF A MILITANT SUFFRAGETTE Emily Wilding Davison died 101 years ago at the Derby, under the thundering hooves of the King's horse. Nobody knows for sure whether she intended ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 11, 2014
MAKING A SPLASH: URINE SHOWBIZ NOW! Are they taking the piss? This extraordinary 2001 American musical by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis ran three years on Broadway after a frin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
CLASS, RACE, LUCK AND LIES: AMERICAN AND UNIVERSAL In tough South Boston they approvingly say someone is "Good People". It carries a sense not only of individual value but neighbourh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 4, 2014
TWO CITIES, FIVE STARS, ONE THRILLING EVENING With an elegance which bodes well for James Dacre's captaincy of this lovely theatre, its filmhouse programmed The Invisible Wom…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]Monday, March 3, 2014
PIES, PRATFALLS AND POLE-DANCING: SATURDAYS AND THE SEVENTIES (NOT A CHILDREN’S SHOW…BEWARE..)  Oh, the wicked 1970's!   Sexist, racist, rapist: gropey DJs …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 2, 2014
LET THE BAND PLAY ON Billy Elliott, The Full Monty, now Brassed Off -  thirty years on from the loss of pits and steelworks, we seem to need a national rite of mourning and expiat…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2014
1919: A GENERATION CAST ADRIFT BY WAR After the Armistice, in spring 1919 the Treaty of Versailles drew lines on the map and enforced reparations. Its decisions cast long shadows even to…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:33PM[SHARE]FIGHTS, FLIGHTS, PANTALOONS AND PRENTICES: BUT THE GROCER’S WIFE IS THE STAR. Imagine three hours on a bench watching a cross between Spamalot and The Real Inspector Hound, per…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 25, 2014
MORE THAN A MOVIE: SOMETHING SPECIAL FROM SHEFFIELD The opening is dramatic: a small gap in the rusty corrugated curtain reveals showers of sparks, a glimpse of steelworks magnificen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
WALKING THE STREETS, A FAR FROM LOST SOUL Phyllis Pearsall became one of London's great urban legends, through her own barnstorming memories and a fictionalized biography. A young wife, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 22, 2014
PASSIONATE, INTENSE AND WILD: JANE EYRE REBORN  “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me!”.   As if in answer to Jane's cry of defiance Sally Cookson’s �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
OLD IRELAND: PLAYFUL, POWERFUL, INTENSE AND TRAGIC A hot summer at harvest's end, 1836. Outside a stone barn in County Donegal  old Jimmy-Jack is chortling naughtily over the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
SONYA AND ANDREY: A BRIEF ENCOUNTER BY FRIEL Two lonely middle-aged people meet in a cheap Moscow café in 1920: she frowning over accounts and mortgages, he in frayed evening cl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2014
A BLAST OF FRESH AIR FROM THE FIFTIES "Cinema is as bad as the theatre these days" says Jo's mother Helen disdainfully. "All mauling and muttering".  Written in 1958 by th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47PM[SHARE]SINGING ALL THE WAY DOWNHILL "Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey and I ache in the places where I used to play.." Ah, Leonard Cohen! Nothing like it when you need it.  Which…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:37AM[SHARE]Monday, February 17, 2014
Quite a few people have asked about the theatre cat logo for theatrecat. Even more are curious about the mice. They are all created by Roger Hardy. Who is really a painter and creato…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 15, 2014
O RAPTURE UNFORESEEN.  A G & S REFUSENIK RECANTS Right. Shoot your cuffs, hammer that piano, rum-ti-tum and off we go: When I was young I must confess I'd run a mile f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
IN WHICH A GOOD PLAY MOVES TOWARDS SOMETHING GREATER Sometimes, memories need to be revisited.  It was in autumn 2012 that I reviewed Lolita Chakrabarti's play starring her husband Ad…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2014
A TERRIFYING, TRIUMPHANT HEADLONG  TAKE ON ORWELL I think George Orwell would be sourly pleased at the way Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan of Headlong and Nottingham Playhouse have …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
GAUDEAMUS IGITUR! A FAVE FRAYN FARCE RETURNS Those who love a good farce – lost trousers, sock-suspenders, nifty door-work, ridiculous fights and punctured dignity - someti…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
A THEATRE LEGEND RECREATED: AND RIPE FOR RE-EVALUATION Sometime in the first hour,  while far from unhappy, I realized that there are two things to keep in mind about Terry Jo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:57PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2014
A DREAM OF PLANKS AND PUPPETS, AND AN UPTURNED ASS… "Gentles, perhaps you wonder at this show. But wonder on…" says Peter Quince, lanky and earnest in a fairisle …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 8, 2014
SEX,  STRIFE, AND  HOT THEOLOGY: ABELARD AND HELOISE RISE AGAIN "Theology in Paris these days" says tubby, jocose King Louis VI of France, "is more interesting than wrestli…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2014
PORN:  THE NASTIEST COTTAGE INDUSTRY  Julie is alone, reminiscing with a cup of tea, calling her cat. She's a geriatric nursing auxiliary, gentle and cheerful, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:17AM[SHARE] 
