Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:58PMSTEEL CELLS AND SADISM Settling in, you’d think you were at the Cenotaph or the Tattoo. A military soundtrack booms out Imperial Echoes and Jupiter (I Vow To Thee My Coun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:56AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
A GLORIOUS SERPENT OF OLD NILE This can be a beast of a play: epic, three and a half hours, scenes spread across the Mediterranean from Rome to Cairo by land and sea. It is als…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
MOLIERE IN THE MODERN MIDLANDS It says something good about our arts establishment that this sharp caper comes from the Royal Shakespeare Company, not some daring pub-r…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:00PMSaturday, September 22, 2018
PARENTHOOD, PRAYER , PROSECCO The renamed Tricycle (no, I am not taking sides) Is open: its leader Indhu Rubasingham launches her sprauncy new theatre with Alexis Zegerman’s da…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:29AMThursday, September 20, 2018
DOING JUSTICE TO AGATHA (She’d have loved it!) The courtroom is the marbled council chamber of the old County Hall:the story by Agatha Christie even hoarier. I missed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55AM 
