At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Nationhood

• Culture Empire History Institution Mental Illness Nationhood Politics Theatre War

  Plenty at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ****

  Plenty Chichester Festival Theatre, 27th June 2019 Sir David Hare has written a fair few plays. Important plays. As well as TV screenplays and film scripts. I’ve only seen a handful but it’s not difficult to work out why the old boy is so important. Even if some would suggest…

  August 23, 2019
• Acting Culture London Nationhood Theatre USA

  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…

  August 17, 2019
• Culture London Myths Nationhood Opera USA

  Paul Bunyan at Alexandra Park Theatre review ****

  Paul Bunyan Alexandra Park Theatre, 11th May 2019 What was that all about? Benjamin Britten and WH Auden’s “choral operetta” which premiered in 1941 when they were in America, is a fable, structured like a Broadway musical, with an array of musical styles, (though BB’s hand is always clear), sometimes…

  May 29, 2019