Category: Culture
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All My Sons at the Old Vic Theatre review *****
All My Sons Old Vic Theatre, 10th May 2019 Take Arthur Miller’s most “Greek” and, probably, most moralising play. Wheel in a couple of Hollywood heavyweights (Bill Pullman and Sally Field, Neve before seen on a UK stage). Add a couple of high recognition and talented Brit actors (Jenna Coleman…
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Out of Water at the Orange Tree Theatre review *****
Out of Water Orange Tree Theatre, 9th May 2019 The Tourist was much taken with Zoe Cooper’s last play, Jess and Joe Forever, also at the Orange Tree, in 2016. A coming of age story which charted the relationship of Joe, Norfolk born and bred, and Jess, posh and up…
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Jude at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
Jude Hampstead Theatre, 8th May 2019 I am guessing if you are the playwright responsible for The Churchill Play, Epsom Downs, The Romans in Britain, Pravda, Paul, 55 Days and Lawrence After Arabia you can get to write pretty much what you like. Especially if you plainly have a history…
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Billy Budd at the Royal Opera House review ****
Billy Budd Royal Opera House, 7th May 2019 The corruption of innocence, the struggle of good vs evil, Christ-like redemption and Pilate-like equivocation, the conflict between natural and legal justice, the outsider’s struggle for acceptance, repressed, scopophiliac, homosexual desire, the rational, scientific world contrasted with the mythic poetry of the…
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My London theatre recommendations May 2019
Time to update my London theatre recommendations. The last list from February 2019 turned out pretty well and a fair few from that are still available for selection. Now I know I go on a bit, and offer too many options, so I have taken the wider selection below, considered…
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Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s Theatre review *****
Rosmersholm Duke of York’s Theatre, 6th May 2019 Right finally a review that might conceivably be of some value to my solitary, loyal reader. Not that you should need me to tell you to go and see this. The proper critics and committed theatre bloggers will already have told you…
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Ghosts at the Royal and Derngate review
Ghosts Royal and Derngate Theatre Northampton, 2nd May 2019 A little bit of back to back Ibsen action. First this Ghosts and then, a few days later, Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s. And the Tourist’s first visit to the Royal and Derngate which, he has Benn rather slow to…
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Edmond de Bergerac at Richmond Theatre review ****
Edmond de Bergerac Richmond Theatre, 1st May 2019 Alexis Michalik is a loving looking chap. Oozes Gallic charm. The wunderkind of French theatre. So its good to know he is half-British. He kicked off as an actor but it is his plays, which have run to packed houses in Paris…
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Don McCullin exhibition at Tate Britain review ****
Don McCullin Tate Britain, 1st May 2019 The main event first. The astonishing work of Don McCullin, the renowned “war” photographer, though this epithet doesn’t get close to covering the depth of the work revealed in this retrospective at the Tate, (now finished, sorry). McCullin, now 83, left art college…
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