At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

Category: Politics

• Class Culture Education Institution London Oxbridge Oxford Politics Power Theatre

  Posh at the Rose Kingston review ****

  Posh Rose Theatre Kingston, 15th October 2019 Another play on the wish list. Not that Laura Wade’s Posh hasn’t had regular outing since it first appeared at the Royal Court in 2010. And, memorably it was made into a film The Riot Club, in 2014 directed by Danish director Lone…

  November 21, 2019
• Culture Economics History Institution London Politics Privatisation Theatre Transport UK

  The Permanent Way at The Vaults review *****

  The Permanent Way The Vaults, 13th October 2019 I have to hand it Debbie Hicks and Alexander Lass, producer and director of The Permanent Way. Whilst David Hare’s 2003 verbatim dissection of the Tory rail privatisation in the 1990s, and the four fatal disasters which followed, is an undeniably powerful…

  November 19, 2019
• Agency Community Culture Economics Institution London Politics Theatre

  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.…

  November 17, 2019
• Culture France London Politics Power Theatre USA

  Two Ladies at the Bridge Theatre review *

  Two Ladies Bridge Theatre, 2nd October 2019 Well on the plus side the new season just announced at the Bridge looks to be a humdinger. A revival of Caryl Churchill’s A Number, directed by Polly Findlay with Roger Allam and Colin Morgan as Salter and son(s), Nick Hytner taking on…

  November 13, 2019
• Capitalism Community Culture Environment Morality Norway Nottingham Politics Theatre

  An Enemy of the People at the Nottingham Playhouse review ****

  An Enemy of the People Nottingham Playhouse, 28th September 2019 Another day, another Ibsen update. After Tanika Gupta’s intelligent relocation of A Doll’s House to colonial India and Cordelia Lynn’s not quite so successful ageing of Hedda Gabler, the Tourist’s next stop was Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s transformation of Henrik’s prototype eco-warrior…

  November 4, 2019
• Culture Gender Identity London Medicine Morality Politics Race Religion Theatre

  The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre review *****

  The Doctor Almeida Theatre, 13th September 2019 He’s only gone and done it again. Robert Icke, the departing Associate Director at the Almeida, has ended on a high. Like that is any great surprise. Once again he has taken a classic text, this time Arthur Schnitzler’s dissection of anti-Semitism in…

  October 25, 2019
• Acting Ideology London Politics Relationship Theatre

  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…

  October 12, 2019
• Borders Culture Europe London Nationhood Place Politics Theatre

  Europe at the Donmar Warehouse review ****

  Europe Donmar Warehouse, 6th August 2019 I have been mightily impressed with the two adaptations by David Greig, the AD of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, that I have seen to date. The Suppliant Women, based on Aeschylus’s The Suppliants, which came to the Young Vic a couple of years ago,…

  September 30, 2019
• Culture Family Ideology London Politics Theatre

  the end of history …. at the Royal Court Theatre review ***

  the end of history … Royal Court Theatre, 29th July 2019 Jack Thorne, (recents include H. Potter, Woyzeck, Junkyard and Kiri and The Virtues on the box), writing, (so blame him for the lower case affectation). John Tiffany, (H. Potter, Road, The Glass Menagerie), directing. A cast of Lesley Sharp,…

  September 10, 2019
• 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