Thursday, December 6, 2018
L’CHAIM – TO LIFE! A SPECIAL NIGHT We are there, over a century ago, beyond the Caucasus. Designer Robert Jones has wrapped us around in rustic planks and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:33AMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR EMPATHISES WITH DEADLINE FEVER.. Here is a tale of two brothers. First, Kit Harrington’s serious, intelligent and moustachioed Austin, Ivy League educated and wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
DARK MAGIC, REAL THEATRE Long, long before Harry Potter there was a gallant orphan, a boy dreamer sucked into a world of murderous magic, facing grief and responsibility alike. Tw…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PMDICKENS UNCHAINED: A SCROOGE FOR OUR TIMES It is , if possible, even finer and more heartfelt and gripping, tuneable and serious and moving than last year. My former r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31PMFriday, November 30, 2018
DARK DOINGS AND DISSECTION Oyez, Oyez. Let it be known that this suspenseful yet dreary political season has become officially the Year Of Dark Panto. Down at The Bridge we had Ma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:25PMFriday, November 23, 2018
BREAKING THE MOULD…. Our politics is partisan, quarrelsome, dated in its pattern of two-parties-plus-minnows. A nest of weary careerists, pointless betrayals and illogical loya…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:28PMMonday, November 19, 2018
DEATH AND THE DIFFICULT WOMAN Those who call Theresa May a ‘bloody difficult woman’ should pop in to the Ambassadors and realise that in the ranks of of BDWs she is the merest d…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMThursday, November 15, 2018
THE EMPTY DARKNESS OF THE HEART Third time lucky: after two glumly disappointing 2018 productions steeped in directorial gimmicks – RSC and NT – the candlelit cram…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
THE KNIGHT WINS HIS SPURS AGAIN: A NOBLE DELUSION Need a Christmas outing? Quailing at panto, feel you and the kids need some Euro-culture to counteract Brexidepression? Trust the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:37PMA SWING AND SWIRL THROUGH HELL It’s certainly not family-panto time along the glittering Thames riverbank: what with Martin McDonagh’ grossout-silly Dark Matter downstream at the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
LIKE A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED DECADES…. If you’re my age, it’s a time machine. Songs like The Sound Of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water (bestselling album 1970,71 and 72…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:11AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
THE SAVAGE BEAUTY OF THE FIRST AIR WAR Britain did not stand alone in WW1. As our hero sings in John MacLachlan Gray’s 1982 play: “South Africa and Canada and Australia to …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMSunday, November 4, 2018
GUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR LISTENS, AS WE SHOULD A glass box filled with smoke encapsulates the Royal Court stage. Shadowy figures patrol its perimeter, sometimes staring out at th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:04AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
LOVE’S PRECEDENCE AND CRUELTY George is a journalist-intellectual, award-winner, amiably vain and sixtyish.. He twinkles for England, with much black-rimmed-specs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:51AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
NOT SO VERY A wooden box swings, pendulum-regular, in a peerlessly spooky attic of Halloween horror, designed with glee by Anna Fleischle . It is inhabited. Difficult, says its c…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PMLOVE, LIES AND THE PAIN OF TRUTH Is it better to live in a lie, a happy story, or to admit the messy sinful truth? Should you assume that every person you meet is the w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45AMSunday, October 21, 2018
ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA The Rime of the Ancient Mariner may be studded with overfamiliar quotations, but taken in its entirely, has power to disturb . It is about gui…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:12PMFriday, October 19, 2018
LECHERY AND TREACHERY, MACHISMO AND METAL… ‘I had forgotten” said a companion as we staggered out, deafened by the final outbreak of crazed metallic drumming, “how syph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:25AMThursday, October 18, 2018
ROMPING FABLE OF A GREASEPAINT CENTURY Twins, three sets of them, in a dynasty of performers from the 1880s onward: a theatrical boarding-house with a heart-of-gold har…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
FOR BETTER FOR WORSE? FOR FIVE MICE ANYWAY If you’re going to mess about with a classic but slightly dated Sondheim musical, be sure to do it brilliantly. Do it like Mar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24PMCONCEPTION AND THE CREATIVES It’s a sign of the sparky credibility of Nina Raine’s play about a woman desperate for a sperm donor – having broken with her younger, un…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PMMonday, October 15, 2018
THE HEIGHTS OF LIFE Theatre sometimes gives films – and books – a remarkable translation, making stories deeper ,stranger , more tense. Maybe it i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:05AMSaturday, October 13, 2018
THE YOUNG DARWIN RISES AGAIN The Jerwood Gallery is for the first time a theatre: in the small excitement of a new space dark shapes loom ahead of us, angular, wooden. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06AMFriday, October 12, 2018
LUKE JONES TAKES THE MEASURE.. This is a made for measure Measure-For-Measure. Its greatest achievement is hacking the flabby old Jacobian down to the right side of 90 minutes. It rol…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMWednesday, October 10, 2018
A MASTERPIECE OF LOVE AND LOSS I saw this on tour in Cambridge, and heroically held of telling you until the West End embargo lifted. It’s wonderful: puzzling, moving, cleve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
A DOSE HARD TO SWALLOW David Hare has chronicled Labour politics – and the state of the nation -for nearly half a century, brilliantly catching truths and tensions. This t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:01PMFriday, October 5, 2018
THE EXTINCTION OF ENGLAND’S EASTERNMOST VILLAGE There is no Grit fishing-village now on the Lowestoft shore, but in 1900 there were homes, shops, bakeries, laundr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:01AMThursday, October 4, 2018
DIVORCED BEHEADED DIED – REVIVED! Took me a shameful while to catch up on this clever little riot of a feminist musical, down from an Edinburgh triumph and packing the Ar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
TALES OF A CITY “I see a beautiful city” says a spotlit actor, and the rest take it up in styles from Radio 4 to rap, then group and regroup, changing with the shrug of a ja…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:48AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
WARM HEARTS, COLD WAR After the Salisbury-Novichok affair there is a sour laugh when Stewart, the MI5 official, reassures the nervous Jackson family that the coming arrest of t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:22AMFriday, September 28, 2018
GUEST CRITIC BEN BLACKMORE MUSES ON CHEESE-KNIVES AND TELETUBBY HOUSES PINTER 2 announces itself in bold, Sex And The City-type projections, in the Sex And The City font as though it …
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