HOMAGE TO A HEALING CHAOS If – like Prince Charles – you grew up with the Goons in the background (“Ying Tong! Bluebottle! He’s fallen in da water!” etc) this will ring …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:31PMMIDDLECLASS MOUNTAIN MISERIES Inspired programming here. You’d find a decent overlap in any January Venn diagram of regular Donmar audiences and people who wish they were ski-i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:29AMPuppets move the heart… It was a third attempt ( like so many, it has had cancellations and suspensions), and I missed it in Sheffield 2019 through illness. So I bought any tick…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:14AMBy Libby Purves Our resident theatreCat Libby Purves returned to Hampstead Theatre to review Neil Leyshon's play Folk now playing in the Downstairs Theatre. This post REVIEW: Folk, Hampstead…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:55PMSONGS FROM THE LAND There’s a lovely serendipity here. The main theatre is running PEGGY FOR YOU (till 29th) while the little downstairs space has Neil Leyshon’s rather lo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AMPLAGUE YEAR Part 2 – 2021 Below, if you care to scroll , I chronicled the shows that met my return from chemo-then-lockdown in 2020. An enfeebled theatrical year. Today a lo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:55PMPART 1: THE ONSET I set out, in this eerie Twixtmas gap, to chronicle and celebrate the return of live theatre since May 2021. And this will follow. But when I totted up the 20…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AMBy Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves paid a visit to Peggy For You at Hampstead Theatre. Until 29 January 2022. This post REVIEW: Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre ✭✭✭�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:57AMA SHARP , SERPENTINE, SUPERB PERFORMANCE Lounging in the small hours on her office couch, under a wall of posters for her many clients’ shows – both famous and forgotten �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AMA PRIMA DONNY JOINS THE FEARLESS FOUR Last year as a family we came to see the doughty quartet doing this variety show, an adult-joking non-panto to fill the fearful gap. It was th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:31AM1968 AND ALL THAT James Graham’s mission might seem unfashionable: trawling 20c history and public culture, looking not for villains and heroes but for the nuances of human behaviour, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35PMBy Libby Purves Our theatreCat Libby Purves reviews The Book of Dust now playing at The Bridge Theatre where they are pulling out the stops for Pullman. This post REVIEW: The Book of Dust, B…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:10AMPULLING OUT THE STOPS FOR PULLMAN First things first: this is the most wonderfully evocative, romantic and dramatic bit of set-projection you will see all year. Bob Crowley, video maes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:07PMA REVIVING REVIVAL Do you need to be of a generation to remember Morecambe and Wise, to which this play is a loving tribute-cum-amiable-ripoff? Probably not. They are stamped on th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:36PMISLAND OF WONDER AND UNEASE One of the interesting, rewarding quirks in Tom Littler’s small-but-perfectly-formed Tempest is that Tam Williams doubles as Ferdinand, the ultra-vi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:31AMGLIMPSES OF ETERNITY (Review first published on D.Mail, in shorter form) This is wonderful. Sometimes a simple short performance can shake, rouse, even change you. So step a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:19AMworth going again I say.. Just thought I should mention to theatrecat readers how wonderful this show it. Saw it twice before the pandemic, nipped back to a matinee a week or so back. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:34AM2021 BRITAIN IN A STATELY STORMY NUTSHELL Just what we needed, I thought! A good old state-of-the-nation black comedy with a semi-derelict Manor in a howling storm, the sea wall abo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AMBy Libby Purves Our very own theatreCAT Libby Purves reviews Zadie Smith's play The Wife of Willesden at the Kiln Theatre. This post REVIEW: The Wife Of Willesden, Kiln Theatre ✭✭✭✭ …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:23AMBy Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang now playing at the Charing Cross Theatre. This post REVIEW: Vanya and S…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:40PMSIX CENTURIES ON, IT’S GEOFFREY CHAUCER’S ROUND Zadie Smith humbly refers to her first play as more like “homework” than the novelist’s usual dread of a blank page. Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:19AMA CHEKHQUERED RESPONSE Vanya and Sonia are siblings – though she is adopted – and have led dull dutiful lives in a remote country house surrounded by cherry trees and an or…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AMROLL UP! IT’S BACK! Ah, Christmastime! There’s nothing like a buff chap in spike-heeled patent thigh-boots somersaulting in the air to make you feel festive. Unless it�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PMA HUMAN ZOO OF ALPHA MEN There are good plays to be written about white male privilege, and about modern capitalism and its relentless expectation of self-promotion and constant advancement …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AMBy Libby Purves Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Nigel Havers and Patricia Hodge in Noel Coward's Private Lives which is now touring. This post REVIEW: Private Lives, Nigel Haver…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:44PMTHEY DO NOT GROW OLD AS WE IN THE STALLS GROW OLD May as well tell you, last week I had the ultimate pensioner experience, and it was a blast. A midweek, senior-price matinee i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:07PMTWENTY YEARS AGO, ANOTHER HEALTH CRISIS CHANGED LIVES Just before the pandemic closed everything down, Emily Jenkins’ deft two-hander won a top Edinburgh Fringe award and many plaud…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AMBy Libby Purves Our very own TheatreCat Libby Purves reviews Jonathan O'Boyle's production of Top Hat now playing at The Mill at Sonning. This post REVIEW: Top Hat the musical, The Mill at S…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:42AMFACE THE MUSIC, AND DANCE! This was a new outing for me. I have long loved the Watermill some miles west, but I hadn’t really registered the Mill at Sonning with it’s e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AMReprise: they’re still at it, as good as ever If I were a PR for the Society of London Theatres, I would get these six performers together for a photocall with the five from Prid…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15AMTHE MYTH AND TERROR THAT CHILDREN KNOW Sometimes a violent rip occurs in the thin veil of materialism ,commonsense, morality and law. Children know this: a bereaveme…
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