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Category: London

  • Bodies at the Royal Court Theatre review ****

    Bodies Royal Court Theatre, 10th August 2017 Bodies is my first exposure to the writing of Vivienne Franzmann and I hope it will not be my last. A few quibbles aside this is overall a thoughtful play which sympathetically explores the issues that it chooses to highlight. Here’s the set…

  • Grayson Perry at the Serpentine Gallery review ****

    Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! Serpentine Gallery, 8th August 2017 Grayson Perry has set himself up as an “astute commentator on contemporary society” as the blurb for his current exhibition would have it. And very good at it he is too. If you haven’t seen any of…

  • Dessert at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    Dessert Southwark Playhouse, 5th August Dessert is the first play I have seen from actor/playwright Oliver Cotton and I have to say that overall I enjoyed it. Subtle it ain’t but it makes its points with a deal of humour, and occasionally, an enlightening punch. The title gives an insight:…

  • Pink Floyd exhibition at the V&A review ***

    Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains V and A, 4th August 2017 Now I have always been slightly suspicious of Pink Floyd. I was only a nipper for the first few “psychedelic” albums pre and post Sid and whilst the classic trio of Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were…

  • Queen Anne at the Theatre Royal Haymarket review ***

    Queen Anne Theatre Royal Haymarket, 3rd August 2017 Tricky customers history plays. How to introduce the characters and explain events without slackening the dramatic pace. It’s OK if your Will Shakespeare. He wrote the history. Or at least someone before him wrote something, which he then purloined and turned it…

  • Angels in America at the National Theatre review *****

    Angels in America: Part One Millennium Approaches and Part Two Perestroika National Theatre, 29th July 2017 That Tony Kushner is an ambitious playwright. This will comes as no surprise to you experienced theatre lovers but, having seen this and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to…

  • The Tempest at the Barbican review ****

    The Tempest Barbican Theatre, 27th July 2017 Now I would watch Simon Russell Beale read the telephone directory. Particular past favourites of mine include a Brechtian Galileo, a Face in the Alchemist, alongside Alex Jennings and Lesley Manville, his Stalin in Collaborators, a Timon in the Hytner production, which persuaded…

  • Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre review

    Directors’ Festival 2017 Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Wall *** The End of Hope ***** Albert’s Boy *** Orange Tree Theatre, 26th, 27th, 28th July 2017 Now this really is a mighty fine idea. Take five short plays by some of Britain’s finest contemporary playwrights and hand them over…

  • Daniel Kitson at the Roundhouse review ****

    Daniel Kitson: Something Other Than Everything The Roundhouse, 25th July 2017 I really can’t be doing with most stand-up comedy and will rarely pay money to go and see it. Most stand-ups are mildly diverting at best and often begin to grate as they default to cheap laughs from tired…

  • Ink at the Almeida Theatre review *****

    Ink Almeida Theatre, 24th July 2017 Recipe for a very satisfying night at the theatre. Choose your company. I spend the vast majority of my theatre going life flying solo. So it is such a pleasure to be joined by some choice chums. In this case the SO, the Blonde…