A 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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMIt’s a fast-paced, funny and stylish cabaret performance from an impressively talented cast, all of whom are terrific, and bringing a different style and flavour to a lesser- known back ca…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMA PSYCHOTIC SAMSON AND HIS WOMEN “There is no such thing as the imagination” says August Strindberg indignantly. “Things are real or they are not.”. Right now, holed up in a s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMTHE CABMAN’S PROGRESS It couldn’t be better placed, here in the arches below Charing Cross station. Under the venerable rules of London licensed cabs – dating back to th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AMHARRIDAN OR HEROINE..? The feminist “Bechdel Test” for fiction says that there must be conversations between two women which are not about men. John Patrick Shanley’s tig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMNot a harsh word can be uttered about any of the big Sondheim numbers, or against the stellar cast – especially the women. Imelda Staunton, Janie Dee, Tracie Bennett, Josephine Barstow –…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:26PMTHE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AMSUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING AND SUPPER It often puzzles me why sharp little stage gems like this don’t get pounced on by TV, – notably the BBC – instead of commissio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:11PMA PRIMITIVE AWAKENING It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour’s set remains tenebrous , primitive. A wom…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13PMGUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES HUNGERS BUT DOESN’T GET A BYTE I’ll give them this; it’s timely. After the violence in Charlottesville, we’ve all been asking what on e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:20AMA DELICATE TREASURE Rarely seen, half-forgotten, Githa Sowerby’s 1924 play is sharp, entertaining, truthful and elegant: Richard Eyre’s direction respects it with delicate …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:11AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT MARIANNE VIDAL Aylin Bozok’s productions of French opera for Grimeborn have all been marked by their elegance, restraint and psychological intens…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:02PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT AT GRIMEBORN If you fancy being entertained like a French king, head to Grimeborn for Lully’s Armide. Lully’s artistic monopoly o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48AMGUEST CRITIC TOM HOLLOWAY WISHES FOR AN UPDATE.. Originally debuting eight years ago at the Bush Theatre, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia is a story of intergenerationa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS NUTTIN’ MUCH FROM GRIMEBORN’S REDUCTION OF GERSHWIN My suspicions should have been aroused by the fact that there was no programme for Porgy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:44PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI WISHES SOMETHING ELSE WOULD DISAPPEAR AT GRIMEBORN The poems which inspired the mysterious song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared first appeared anonymously …
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