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  Catching up (Part 7)

  July 2021 Out West – The Overseas Student – Blue Water and Cold and Fresh – Go, Girl – Lyric Hammersmith – 7th July – ***** Rachel O’Riordan, the AD at the Lyric Hammersmith, might be as good if not better at programming plays as she is directing herself. And…

  January 31, 2023
• Agency art Capitalism Class Community Culture Exhibition Friendship Language London Masculinity Photography Place Power Privilege Race Religion Theatre Wales

  Catching up (Part 6)

  June 2021 Oleanna – Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath – 28th June – ***** Finally an opportunity to scratch that travel itch. The SO was forced to drive the Tourist around some of the loveliest parts of Northern England in early June, but the attractions were almost entirely architectural and…

  November 28, 2021
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  Catching up (Part 3)

  April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…

  November 5, 2021
• Classical Music Concert Contemporary Classical Culture England Family London Memory Minimalism Mortality Piano Race Relationship Science Theatre Uncategorized

  Catching up (Part 1)

  February 2020 Yep. You read that right. February 2020. Just before you know what kicked off and the stages went dark. You would have thought that the last 18 months would have given the Tourist plenty of time and inclination to continue reporting on his cultural journey. But no. Despite…

  October 18, 2021
• Colonialism Culture Empire London Race Theatre Victorian

  The Gift at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ***

  The Gift Theatre Royal Stratford East, 8th February 2020 Another in the lengthening list of contemporary plays where the reach of ambition exceeds the grasp of execution. Janice Okoh has set her sights on “imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation … and tea” with her “outrageous” play set firstly, in Victorian…

  May 7, 2020
• Class Culture England Family London Race Relationship Theatre

  A Kind of People at the Royal Court Theatre review ****

  A Kind of People Royal Court Downstairs, 16th December 2019 Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was a new playwriting name for me. No longer. A Kind of People takes a not uncommon subject, racism in contemporary Britain, and not uncommon set-ups, a mixed race marriage, friendships, a party, a workplace, and conjures…

  January 31, 2020
• Culture London Power Race Theatre USA

  Fairview at the Young Vic review ***

  Fairview Young Vic Theatre, 11th December 2019 Fell like a bit of a fraud putting pen to paper on this. For, I confess, I did not completely understand Fairview. African-American playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for the play. The conceit is ingenious. A birthday dinner for…

  January 30, 2020
• Apartheid Culture Jazz London Race South Africa Theatre

  “Master Harold” … and the boys at the National Theatre review *****

  “Master Harold” … and the boys National Theatre Lyttleton, 26th October 2019 I was surprised by this. Not by the content. Athol Fugard, like his compatriot in the plastic arts William Kentridge, has more than enough inspiration to fuel his art from the history of his nation. Master Harold, like…

  November 27, 2019
• Culture England Ideology Masculinity Nationhood Race Theatre

  Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads at the Spiegeltent Chichester

  Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads Spigeltent, Chichester Festival Theatre, 17th October 2019 There are a few candidates for my favourite play of 2019. Lynn Nottage’s stunning Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse, or either of the revivals of the Miller classics at the Old and Young Vics respectively, All…

  November 26, 2019
• Culture Family London Race Theatre USA

  Appropriate at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

  Appropriate Donmar Warehouse, 3rd October 2019 After deconstructing a Victorian melodrama in An Octoroon and satirising modern tragedy in Gloria, London now gets to see Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2013 take on the dysfunctional American family drama. Only this time the secret which lies at the heart of the Lafayette family is…

  November 13, 2019