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Category: Theatre

• Communism Culture Germany London Theatre Thriller

  Anna at the National Theatre review ****

  Anna National Theatre Dorfman, 11th June 2019 After a false start, (the indolent Tourist failed to wake up in time on the appointed on-sale day and this sold out fast), a couple of returns were secured so it was off to the Dorfman with MS in tow for Ella Hickson’s…

  July 27, 2019
• Acting Culture Jacobean London Romance Satire Shakespeare Theatre

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle at the Barbican Theatre review ****

  The Knight of the Burning Pestle Barbican Theatre, 8th June 2019 The Tourist has fallen embarrassingly behind on his documentation of a cultural life. Ironically because he has been on holiday. Unfortunately for you though this is not (yet) one of those countless dormant blogs, casualties of time and application.…

  July 27, 2019
• Acting Culture Dreams Gender London Love Magic Nature Sexuality Shakespeare Theatre

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridge Theatre review *****

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream Bridge Theatre, 6th June 2019 Go join the Shakespeare party down at the Bridge. Nick Hytner pretty much always nails the Bard and he has done it again here. Ignore the lukewarm reviews from the critics who seem to have got a little bit antsy with…

  June 30, 2019
• Culture London Pittsburgh Race Relationship Theatre USA

  King Hedley II at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ****

  King Hedley II Theatre Royal Stratford East, 6th June 2019 The Pittsburgh (or Century) Cycle. Ten plays written by August Wilson (above) charting the African- American experience in the US in each decade of the C20. All bar one set in the same Pittsburgh Hill district, where August Wilson grew…

  June 29, 2019
• Acting Capitalism Culture Finance London Satire Theatre

  Serious Money at LAMDA review review ****

  Serious Money Sainsbury Theatre, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, 4th June 2019 Last minute jaunt to Hammersmith to see one of LAMDA’s summer season offerings. If there are times when you start fulminating about paying close to a ton for a cramped perch in a dingy West End…

  June 26, 2019
• Culture London Manchester Theatre

  Harper Regan at the Tabard Theatre review ****

  Harper Regan Tabard Theatre, 1st June 2019 The Tourist’s first visit to the Tabard Theatre in leafy Chiswick, which given its proximity, its longevity, it has been around since 1985, and the quirky breadth of its repertoire, new plays and revivals, own and other productions, must count as a massive…

  June 25, 2019
• Culture London Politics Power Satire Theatre

  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson at the Park Theatre review **

  The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson Park Theatre, 31st May 2019 Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is probably going to be your next Prime Minister, chosen by a hundred thousand or so duffers average age in the 70s. Sovereignty? Democracy? If that doesn’t make you laugh nothing will. Anyway the…

  June 22, 2019
• Acting Community Culture Family History London Place Theatre USA

  Our Town at the Open Air Theatre review ****

  Our Town Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, 23rd May 2019 Now I’ll be honest, until I started taking this theatre malarkey seriously, I had only the faintest idea of what Thornton Wilder’s most famous play, Our Town, was about. And even going in to this production at the Open Air…

  June 12, 2019
• Crime Culture Georgian London Morality Musicals Opera Politics Theatre

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other love songs) Lyric Hammersmith, 22nd May 2019 Never seen John Gay’s ballad opera The Beggar’s Opera, though have seen Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera, on which it is based, a couple of times. Have been waiting patiently for a production of Britten’s 1948…

  June 10, 2019
• Business Culture Family London Memory Theatre USA

  Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic review *****

  Death of a Salesman Young Vic, 17th May 2019 For those of you who, understandably, don’t have the time or inclination to filter through the vast opportunity set that is the London “subsidised” theatre sector and just want to spend your hard-earned coin on a proven theatrical production then the…

  June 9, 2019
• Business Capitalism Culture Edwardian Family Feminism London Power Theatre

  Rutherford and Son at the National Theatre review ****

  Rutherford and Son National Theatre Lyttleton, 16th May 2019 It is not difficult to see what Githa Sowerby’s photo feminist play from 1912, and brought back to life at the Royal Court by feminist theatre company Mrs Worthington’s Daughters in 1980, now has such a secure place in the repertory.…

  June 7, 2019
• Culture Education Ireland London Theatre

  Class at the Bush Theatre review ***

  Class Bush Theatre, 15th May 2019 Good intention. Examine the way the education process, despite the best intentions of those who operate it, can fail those who start with least advantage. Interesting central conceit. Take the parents whose son is the subject of their meeting with his teacher, and show…

  June 5, 2019