SEX, SHAME , THE STROP OF THE RAZOR I rashly confessed on Twitter that I spent the afternoon before this astringent production of a Strindberg play revelling in the happy furry…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:39PMPROFIT AND A PROPHET: RANTINGS AND RATINGS I came to this a day late for tedious domestic reasons, but since the original film is about a news anchor , Howard Beale, going …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:37AMMULTIPLE CHOICE IN A MANIPULATED WORLD “We in this country” says the red judge grandly “Do not have trial by media or by mobs”. Hmm. Tell that to anyone now staring con…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:15AMNEW GENERATION REVIEWER MICHAEL ADAIR UNMOVED BY MANSPREADING BUT LOVES THE SWEARING The return of Glengarry Glen Ross feels rather timely. There is something striking about a play consistin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:07AMA PERFECT TWELVE “What country, friend, is this?” That soon becomes clear, in this beautiful rendition of Shakespeare’s melancholy comedy of love and misapprehension. From the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:56PMLIGHTS OUT,, CLUTCH YOUR SEAT To be honest I was slightly daunted by the PR point that Karina Jones is the first blind actress in recent years to play Susy (hers was the Audrey Hepbur…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:33AMLITTLE NELL, ON THE ROAD AGAIN Of all Dickens’ works this – originally a serial so gripping that American readers rushed the docks for the new edition – is such a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:52AMTHE LONELY HEARTS OF WARTIME If you need relief from the current outbreak of extreme social primness about male behaviour, you’re going to love the bit with Clive Francis , as the e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:11PMWHOSE BABY? It is a brave theme that Chris Thompson – a former social worker – has chosen. It is also a darkly, and accidentally, topical one since a court case is still…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:37PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI LOSES HER HEART TO HOODLUMS Even ruthless, psychotic gangsters have to fall in love sometimes. And Rodelinda is all about what happens when the people at the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:16AMROISTERING AND REVOLUTION There is a nice contrarian quality about Nicholas Hytner’s choice for his first production, in the dramatically beautiful new theatre he founded with N…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:29PMSHADOWS OF WAR AND LOSS Not a good week for AA Milne. That “Goodbye Christopher Robin” film about his WW1 trauma comes out – then Philip Pullman sounds off scornfully about …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:24PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HALF-TERM HEAVEN AT NORWICH PUPPET THEATRE “Have you ever wondered where dreams come from? Or how they get into your head?” A thought-provok…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:50AMTHE SCIENTIST AND THE SEX SYMBOL, IN A PARANOID WORLD The uneasy 1950s: Albert Einstein is exiled in America and called to appear before the unAmerican Activities committee for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24PMCLUNTERING FLAPPYSKETS ! DON’T SMITTLE AND SKRYKE , IT’S BARRIE AGAIN… By ‘eck, luv! They Northern Broadsides, they weren’t hid behind t’mangle when they wer…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PMA LESSON IN POLITICS, HUMANITY AND LOVE The joyful thing about James Graham is that for all the playwright’s youth, diamond wit and forensic insight, there is a deep humankin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:17AMAFTER THE WARS WERE OVER… This is a lovely rediscovery, the kind of thing Two’s Company has repeatedly offered us in this enterprising theatre (we owe them those extraordin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:58PMGUEST CRITIC MICHAEL ADAIR ENCOUNTERS IBSEN’S BRACING RAGE Ibsen’s 1889 work, The Lady From the Sea has washed ashore at the Donmar in a new version written by Elinor Cook…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:24AMO ENGLAND IS A GARDEN… There’s a lawn and a vast magnificent tree. In dim moonlight before the start a figure in khaki – could be any war – kneels to feel the eart…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06PMOSCAR’S BACK! IN THE VERY WEEK OF HIS BIRTHDAY… A theatrical phenomenon of the 20th century is the way that some of the most perceptive parts for women were written by g…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:32PMLUKE JONES RELISHES ELDRIDGE ON MIDLIFE CHAOS When the music stops and the lights click on, your first thought is ‘sweet Jesus what the hell went down at this party”? �…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:20AMA TRANSYLVANIAN TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT Sometimes you just want a bit of fun. That is the moment to turn to Mel Brooks, master of daft parody. At 91, the master strode onstage ton…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:13PMA FINE ROMANCE? A quick quantum-mechanics lesson (though this is not a play about science). The Heisenberg principle asserts that there is a limit to knowing what will happen to the p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:47AMFAITHFUL TO UNFAITHFULNESS, ZELLER SPARKLES AGAIN This is a companion-piece to the stormingly funny, cruelly witty THE TRUTH: Florian Zeller, translated from the French with ve…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:08PMA JOYFUL JIGSAW: TABLE MANNERS, LIVING TOGETHER, ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN In more rigorous technical times there was an art school exercise: “draw an imagined street-scene in pers…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12PMA FAMILY SITCOM UPS ITS GAME… I didn’t much rate its premiere at the National in 2015, despite the achingly chic set I felt was “a kitchen-diner so huge and smart it makes David…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AMON SEEING IT AGAIN…THE LATE EDITION IS BETTER STILL… Nipping late into the Almedia after the opening, I concurred with every word of Luke Jones’ review on theatrec…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:36PMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HERE, TOO, ARE TEARS FOR THE MISFORTUNES OF TROY While there are many excellent reasons to read Virgil’s Aeneid from cover to cover, more than once, the fourth book …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:28AMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS CLASS CIVIL WAR AT THE RSC Coriolanus doesn’t often hit the modern stage: its plot, a hymn to the necessary evil of educated patrician privilege in order to provide …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMPEACE IN THEIR TIME…HOW TO DO IT This is a three-hour historical political play about Middle East negotiations in the 1990s: and it is absolutely thrilling. Pins you to your seat wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:45PMCHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DREAMS COMING TRUE IN MEDIEVAL NORFOLK In Norfolk, we tend to be quietly, fondly proud of our surroundings – with an emphasis on ‘quietly.’ The tradition of Norf…
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