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Category: Theatre

  • Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre 2018 review

    Directors’ Festival 2018 Katie Johnstone **** Precious Little Talent **** In the Night-Time (Before the Sun Rises) **** Right it was a brilliant idea last year. It was a brilliant idea this year. And it will be a brilliant idea next year (Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre review).…

  • Love and Information at Sheffield Theatres review *****

    Love and Information Sheffield Crucible Theatre Studio, 7th July 2018 So here was my cunning plan. LD wanted/needed to have a sniff around the University. I spied this revival on the very evening. A chance to have a good look at this fine city. And, though not the original intention,…

  • One for Sorrow at the Royal Court Theatre ****

    One For Sorrow Royal Court Theatre, 5th July 2018 Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this blog. It takes me so long to get round to seeing and commenting on anything that any post here is worse than useless to the unlucky reader who inadvertently stumbles across it. And…

  • Monogamy at the Park Theatre review ***

    Monogamy Park Theatre 200, 28th June 2018 This was a curious confection. Playwright Torben Betts (there his is above) has, by all accounts, made a very creditable stab exploring the comic social realism so expertly, and prolifically, mined by his one time mentor Alan Ayckbourn. Here is another to follow…

  • Machinal at the Almeida Theatre review ****

    Machinal Almeida Theatre, 27th June 2018 I always like to do as much reading as I can before seeing a play. Reviews, synopses, articles, cross referencing creatives to previous work. You get the idea. The SO however will have none of that, preferring to go in cold and then see…

  • Genesis Inc at the Hampstead Theatre review **

    Genesis Inc. Hampstead Theatre Upstairs, 25th June 2018 Sometimes less is more. A lesson that writer Jemma Kennedy and director Laurie Sansom here chose to, if not ignore, certainly bypass. Made even more frustrating because, at the kernel of this play, and in its execution, are some very good ideas.…

  • Sea Wall at the Old Vic Theatre review

    Sea Wall Old Vic Theatre, 23rd June 2018 I might have told this story before. My memory is failing. A few years ago the SO, BD and LD went to see Groundhog Day at the Old Vic. Terrific film and terrific musical. Made more terrific by the presence of Ben…

  • Red at the Wyndham’s Theatre review *****

    Red Wyndham’s Theatre, 21st June 2018 The original production of John Logan’s play Red at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009 with Alfred Molina and Eddie Redmayne passed me by. More fool me. So I was looking forward to catching this revival directed by Michael Grandage, (who directed the original), with…

  • Act and Terminal 3 at the Print Room Coronet review ***

    Act, Terminal 3 The Print Room, Coronet, 13th June 2018 Lars Noren is considered by many of those who purport to know about these things to be Sweden’s greatest living playwright. He certainly looks the part. His writing is oft compared to Beckett and Pinter. The Print Room is a…

  • Leave Taking at the Bush Theatre review *****

    Leave Taking Bush Theatre, 13th June 2018 I confess I had never heard of Winsome Pinnock’s 1987 play Leave Taking until this season’s announcement for the Bush. Shocking for someone who considers themselves to be a theatre obsessive. I still have so much to learn. Still theatre is always the…