Wednesday, July 8, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
Memories still linger of the impressive Opening Ceremonies to the Olympic and Paralympic Games held in London in 2012, and The Four Fridas is best viewed as a (partly) su…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:14PMBy Tim Hochstrasser
The play is staged in the round with a pleasing and teasing contrast between the artifice stage convention and informality. The gestures towards setting are practical and…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:35AMMonday, July 6, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
One of the most exciting features of the current fairground-cluster that is London Wonderground on the South Bank is the focus on late night cabaret. In the summer months…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:45PMBy Tim Hochstrasser
Matilda this show is not – the original and the adaptation are thin fare in comparison with the disturbing and multi-layered creations of Dahl and his later creative ad…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:01AMMonday, June 29, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
There is not much room for manoeuvre upstairs at the Old Red Lion, but the creative team, led by director Jonathan Kemp, have put together a flexible and well dressed set…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:46AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
As with so many theatres of a certain age, the bar at the Theatre Royal is proudly lined with photos of bygone productions from the golden age of repertory theatre; and t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:26AMWednesday, June 24, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
In this theatre season where commemoration and remembrance of the outbreak of the First World War are much to the fore, many of the most successful dramatic ventures are …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:41AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
The King’s Head has a notable tradition in supporting contemporary drama on gay themes, but sadly as things stand this new 65-minute play by And Davies does not add ver…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:23AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
Please do chase down this wonderful, life-affirming production at one of the several intriguing venues that lie ahead on its current tour – you will not regret it, and …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:33AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
Sadly this fine adaptation has a very brief run – I do hope another theatre can be persuaded to allow us to experience this play with this cast once more - and soon….…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:54AMThursday, June 18, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
Diving into the 1901 Club just nearby Waterloo is not exactly like falling down a rabbit hole, but the press preview for the launch of a CD album ahead of the summer revi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:08AMMonday, June 15, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
This then is a play about memory and a sense of homeland, and the inter-generational consequences of the Holocaust and Jewish Diaspora. Clearly this is well-trodden groun…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:05AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
The Royal Court has not had the best of runs recently, so it is heartening to report that in this new play by Gary Owen they have a really fine piece of writing in a memo…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:34AMSaturday, June 13, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
It leaves us with a slight regret that, as with so many English comedians of her generation, Joyce Grenfell did not emerge more often from the comfort zone in which she h…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:40AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
This therefore is work at a sophisticated creative level, where everything depends in a very pure, basic sense on the players themselves. There is no scenery, only a few …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:27PMBy Tim Hochstrasser
With a plethora of films and plays about the tragedy and waste of the Great War I wondered initially whether there would be scope for the themes addressed here to touch m…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:09PMBy Tim Hochstrasser
The Taming Of The Shrew New Wimbledon Studio 27 May 2015 5 Stars BOOK TICKETS A ravaged, mouthy derelict with a can of beer was slumped outside the entrance to the New Wi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:18PMThursday, June 4, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
The Flannelettes King’s Head Theatre 19 May 2015 5 Stars The Flannelettes come to the King’s Head Theatre as part of its 45th anniversary celebrations. The play r…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:10PMMonday, May 25, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
As this fine play moved towards its nuanced ending I could not help making a comparison with an earlier work that placed nuns in a setting of impossible choice: Poulenc�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:29AMFriday, May 22, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
It would be wrong to reveal more of the detail but the writer deserves great credit for the way in which he remorselessly brings the stories together in the finale while …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:42AMBy Tim Hochstrasser
All these positives on the creative side only sharpen the regret that this reviewer and clearly many of the audience felt that we were not seeing more of the unmediated o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:36AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
However, there is an uncertainty of tone about the piece as a whole that does not entirely convince. The evening starts as a straight-forward thriller but then seems to c…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:45AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
This is a harrowing but necessary evening in which the transcripts of seven interviews with American women veterans of Afghanistan and the second Iraq War are woven toget…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:08PMMonday, May 18, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
All credit to Jamie Harper and his ebullient, energetic team for a superb evening of thought-provoking fun. Do catch it while it is still running so as to give yourself a…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:09PMBy Tim Hochstrasser
Most immediately Kingmaker recognizes the extent to which the rewards in politics go to those whose priorities remain resolutely fixed on the rules of the game and not to…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:37AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
With both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Matilda still playing with great success elsewhere, this is the latest attempt to bring Dahl’s unique alchemy of moralis…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:06AMFriday, April 24, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
But in the end the tension between the daily count of the passage of time and the avoidance of narrative direction is too much to sustain and in the final sections we ret…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:53PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
By Tim Hochstrasser
The Orange Tree theatre has established a unique niche for itself as a home for new writing and carefully chosen revivals of long-neglected repertoire. This production is…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:28AM 
