118 stories by "Tim Hochstrasser"
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…
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…
By 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…
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…
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 …
By 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…
By 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…
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 re-…
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's…
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 …
By 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…
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…
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…
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…
By 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…
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 moralised…
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…
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…
