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 06:32PMLONELINESS, 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 06:25PMJOYFUL 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 07:03PMTWERKING 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 11:54AMSTABBING, 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 06:49PMA 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 12:18PMLIGHT 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 12:24PMCLERK 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 06:57PMDRIFTING 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 06:31PMCHILDREN 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…
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