At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Acting

• Acting Borders Culture Friendship Identity India London Theatre

  Santi and Naz at the Vault Festival review ****

  Santi and Naz The Thelmas, Vault Festival 2020, 30th January 2020 Now I cannot pretend that everything on offer at the Vault Festival is my cup of tea. I suspect most of the comedy and monologues are aimed at a much younger and less hidebound audience than the Tourist and…

  April 11, 2020
• Acting Culture France Friendship London Love Poetry Relationship Romance Theatre

  Cyrano de Bergerac at the Playhouse Theatre review *****

  Cyrano de Bergerac Playhouse Theatre, 30th January 2020 I appreciate the utter pointlessness of me rabbiting on right now about theatre productions that have come and gone but since I am ill equipped to do anything but stay out of the way as instructed, then forgive me my indulgence. Actually…

  April 3, 2020
• Acting Culture Film

  Films you might want to watch

  No excuse now not to catch up on documenting what I have seen in recent months given it will be some time before we are out and about. Spare a thought for your favourite theatres. Donate for cancelled performances or take the credit option. I appreciate there are more important…

  March 21, 2020
• Acting Contact Culture London Relationship Technology Theatre Transgression

  The Sugar Syndrome at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  The Sugar Syndrome Orange Tree Theatre, 27th January 2020 With last year’s A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic, The Effect from 2012, (about to be revived at the fancy newish Boulevard), and ENRON from 2010, as well as Secret Diary of a Cal Girl and, most recently, the…

  March 11, 2020
• Acting Comedy Culture Fiction Film London Mime Performance Physical Theatre Piano Theatre

  The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****

  The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel Wilton’s Music Hall, 16th January 2020 I was much taken with one of Told By An Idiot’s previous productions Napoleon Disrobed, which featured its co-founder and AD Paul Hunter alongside Ayesha Antoine, whose career unsurprisingly has gone fro strength to strength…

  March 6, 2020
• Acting Agency Culture Gender London Patriarchy Power Shakespeare Theatre

  The Taming of the Shrew at the Barbican review ***

  The Taming of the Shrew Barbican Theatre, 2nd January 2020 What to do with Taming of the Shrew. Pretend the framing device with Sly deceived by Milord gets you off the hook. Not sure audiences buy that. Mine the text very carefully and add detail through direction which undermines the…

  February 9, 2020
• Acting Culture Dreams Fiction London Myths Stories Theatre Truth

  The Antipodes at the National Theatre review ****

  The Antipodes National Theatre Dorfman, 23rd November 2019 I’ll tell you what. That Annie Baker backs herself. Here is another long play, near 2 hours straight through, where, visually, nothing much happens, bar a properly weird interlude, and dense with word. And this time it is a story about stories,…

  January 14, 2020
• Acting Culture Education Institution London Theatre

  Shook at the Southwark Playhouse review *****

  Shook Southwark Playhouse, 16th November 2019 The Papatango New Writing Prize is apparently the biggest of its kind in the UK, offering its winner the guarantee of a production and a commission to support a follow up play. The Funeral Director, Hanna, Trestle, Foxfinder, and especially Matt Grinter’s Orca, have…

  December 12, 2019
• Acting Agency Authorship Class Comedy Culture Fiction Literature London Love Theatre

  The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory review *****

  The Watsons Menier Chocolate Factory, 16th November 2019 Fannyed about and failed to book this when it came to Chichester. Wasn’t about to make the same mistake again so quick off the mark when the transfer to the MCF was announced and a three line whip to include the SO…

  December 10, 2019
• Acting Culture Education Friendship London Performance Relationship Theatre

  Little Baby Jesus at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  Little Baby Jesus Orange Tree Theatre, 28th October 2019 No flies on this. Arinze Kene’s coming of age play which first appeared at the OvalHouse in 2011 is high octane stuff. Which here, under the direction of this year’s winner of the JMK Award, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, and a committed cast…

  November 29, 2019
• Acting Crime Culture Family Fiction Film Literature London Theatre Thriller

  The Lovely Bones at the Rose Theatre Kingston review *****

  The Lovely Bones Rose Theatre Kingston, 26th October 2019 The Lovely Bones, co-produced by Birmingham Rep, Royal and Derngate, Northern Stage and Liverpool Everyman, is just to wrap up its tour in Chichester. If you saw it good on you. If you didn’t then make sure you sign up for…

  November 27, 2019
• Acting Culture Film Jazz London Manchester Relationship Theatre

  A Taste of Honey at Richmond Theatre review ***

  A Taste Of Honey Richmond Theatre, 9th October 2019 Not quite sure I know how a production such as this is taken under the wing of the National Theatre, and let’s face it it’s none of my business anyway. But I do think I can work out why this particular…

  November 17, 2019