Category: Acting
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Mother of Him at the Park Theatre ****
Mother of Him Park Theatre, 19th September 2019 I confess that the main motivation for seeing Mother of Him was Tracy-Ann Oberman. You will probably know her from her many, and varied, TV roles but she is also a feted stage actor. However until now I had only seen her…
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The Night of the Iguana at the Noel Coward Theatre review ***
The Night of the Iguana Noel Coward Theatre, 16th September 2019 Last minute purchase. Just about worthwhile. The Night of the Iguana is not normally considered one of Tennessee William’s greatest hits, and I am certainly no TW completist, but the cast, the director, James Macdonald, the designer, Rae Smith,…
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Until the Flood at the Arcola Theatre *****
Until the Flood Arcola Theatre, 10th September 2019 I am in awe of actors, and indeed other performers, who are prepared to step out on a stage alone to entertain, inspire and educate us. A one character monologue is tricky enough. To present multiple characters surely more so. To inhabit…
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Hansard at the National Theatre review ****
Hansard National Theatre Lyttleton, 26th August 2019 Simon Woods is an actor who has appeared in TV shows such as Rome, Cranford and Spooks and films including Pride and Prejudice and Starter for 10, though I am afraid I don’t recognise him. He also went to Eton, then Oxford where…
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As You Like It at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch review ***
As You Like It Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, 26th August 2019 I don’t think I was alone in praising the first initiative in the collaboration between Public Acts and the National Theatre last year which brought amateur and professional creatives together to produce a piece of large scale community theatre. That…
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The Starry Messenger at the Wyndham’s Theatre review ***
The Starry Messenger Wyndham’s Theatre, 5th August 2019 The Tourist, despite his evident theatre addiction, rarely jumps in to secure a ticket early for the “star” vehicles that crop up in the West End. It usually pays to wait to see how well regarded play and production are. Demand often…
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Present Laughter at the Old Vic review ****
Present Laughter Old Vic Theatre, 24th July 2019 Ummed and ahhed about whether to see this. On the one hand it was Andrew Scott in the lead as one of theatre’s most renowned hyper-narcissists, Gary Essendine. On the other hand it was a play from the dreadful old reactionary Noel…
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Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****
Paterson Joseph – Sancho: An Act of Remembrance Orange Tree Theatre, 30th June 2019 OK. So let me get this out of the way at the beginning. Paterson Joseph’s one man homage to Charles Ignatius Sancho, the first Black Briton to vote, sometimes comes across as just a little too…
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Radio at the Arcola Theatre review ****
Radio Arcola Theatre, 25th June 2019 Never easy to work out what to sign up for at the Arcola Theatre since so much of quality and interest passes through the doors. So the Tourist has adopted a somewhat whimsical approach and given up worrying too much if he misses the…
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