Category: Community
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You Stupid Darkness! at the Southwark Playhouse review *****
You Stupid Darkness! Southwark Playhouse, 28th January 2020 With a whimper not a bang. That’s how the world ends in Sam Steiner’s new play. Though, given where we are now, (and as many reviews of this play seem to demand), you might be forgiven for thinking our selfish species will…
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On Bear Ridge at the Royal Court Theatre review ***
On Bear Ridge Royal Court Theatre, 21st November 2019 Knockout premise. Some splendid dialogue. Beguiling, complex characters. Inspired design courtesy of Cai Dyfans. Supported by the lighting of Elliot Griggs and sound of Mike Beer, And engaging performances from the outstanding Welsh cast of Rhys Ifans, Rakie Ayola (the first…
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A View from the Bridge at the Royal and Derngate Theatre review ****
A View From The Bridge Royal and Derngate, Northampton, 24th October 2019 The Tourist’s last exposure to Arthur Miller’s oppressive tale of an ordinary man brought low by his particularly disturbing brand of hamartia was Ivo van Hove’s stripped bare psychodrama with Mark Strong at his very best as Eddie…
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Faith, Hope and Charity at the National Theatre review ****
Faith, Hope and Charity National Theatre Dorfman, 8th October 2019 I didn’t catch the first two plays in Alexander Zeldin’s trilogy, Beyond Caring (zero hours contracts) and Love (a homeless hostel), about life for the disadvantaged in modern Britain. In fact worse that that I didn’t even know about them.…
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Two Trains Running at the Royal and Derngate review ***
Two Trains Running Royal and Derngate Northampton, 12th September 2019 Another instalment in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle though, four in, the Tourist still has some way to go. Two Trains Running premiered in 1990 and is set in the turbulent 1960s – remember each of the ten play series covers…
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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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Noye’s Fludde at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ****
Noye’s Fludde Theatre Royal Stratford East, 3rd July 2019 You might think it’s a bit sad really. A grown man in his 50s on his own at a children’s opera performed by a community that he cannot claim to be any part of. Unfortunately my kids never caught the Britten…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 