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CHARLOTTE 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 Norfolk un…
A 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 shabby ho…
THE 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 the …
HARRIDAN 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 tight Pul…
THE 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…
SUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING Â 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 commiss…
A PRIMITIVE AWAKENINGÂ It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , Â murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour's set remains tenebrous , primitive. A w…
GUEST 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…
A 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 prec…
GUEST 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 intensit…
GUEST 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 over …
GUEST 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 intergenerational …
GUEST 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 …
GUEST 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 …
PRETTY MUCH A BOOJUM I must admit I yearned towards this production – for 4 years old upwards, though there were some younger infants having a hell of a good time, even without …
MICHAEL ADAIR, 25  ¾ ,  APPROPRIATELY TAKES OVER AND WRITES.. Before The Inbetweeners, the most accurate reflection of the total embarrassment of teenage life in Br…
BOB AND CONOR: A NEW DIRECTION HOME… Bob Dylan songs – from each of six decades – woven into a musical by Conor McPherson? At Dylan's own suggestion? What? But he…
A COSMIC CLASH OF PHYSICS AND FAMILY Ah, now this is what the National Theatre is for1 A great reckless sprawl of a brand-new play, with spectacular technology, extraordinary design (…
FINE DINING AND FINANCIAL FURY Piquant idea, to open Oliver Cotton’s play about financial inequality in BBC Salary Embarrassment Week. Â While the inequity between multi-milli…
With the news of its West End transfer in autumn – well deserved – Â I Â finally caught up with INK (reviewed here on opening night by Luke. I agree with his rating of…
FROM HIS MOUTH TO GOD’S EAR… We know Omid Djalili best as a comedian: one of our few Iranian standups. Great timing and great heart, a good Fagin but comparatively …
NEW GUEST CRITIC THOMAS HOLLOWAY FINDS A NEW MUSICAL Arriving at the Charing Cross Theatre this weekend, in the wake of London's Pride weekend, is this transfer from the enterp…
A MODERN WORLD GROWING, BENEATH THE PERIWIGS I saw Helen Edmundson's marvellous RSC history-play about Anne's short reign some eighteen months ago; the review is here – h…
A GREAT HEART AND TALENT, Â REMEMBERED WITH LOVE O my days! If you have any feeling for jazz and blues, for women, music or the historic trials and triumphs of black America, don't …
THE MIRACLE THAT FAILED The subtitle is "The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall's Relationship with Kids' Company". Jos…
