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Category: Theatre

  • Great Apes at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    Great Apes Arcola Theatre, 31st March 2018 I sort of lost track with Will Self the author after The Book of Dave. His sprawling, satirical fantasies with a lot of big words, unreliable narratives and narrators, drugs, mental dislocation, is never short of imagination and ideas, but aren’t always that…

  • Vincent River at the Park Theatre review ****

    Vincent River Park Theatre, 29th March 2018 I wonder if the 2070s equivalents of the Finborough Theatre or the Orange Tree Theatre, will be lauded for their Philip Ridley revivals. Mr Ridley’s subject matter and idiom means he is a nailed on certainty to get multiple airings in today’s theatrical…

  • The Plough and the Stars at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

    The Plough and the Stars Lyric Hammersmith, 26th March 2018 One way or another I see a fair amount of theatre. Making up for lost time I guess. Anyway this requires a reasonable degree of organisation. Nothing a small child couldn’t cope with but I do need to be on…

  • The Great Wave at the National Theatre review ****

    The Great Wave National Theatre, 24th Mar 2018 Now theatre can do a lot of things. Delve deep into the psychology of characters and shed light on the human condition. Convey a passionate and heartfelt message. Put poetry into the mouths of actors. Dispense shock and awe through sound, light…

  • The York Realist at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

    The York Realist Donmar Warehouse, 22nd March 2018 Live in Sheffield? Like theatre? Then you must go see this production of the 2001 play, The York Realist, which is on at the Crucible for the next couple of weeks. Live in Sheffield and no interest in the theatre? Even more…

  • The Birthday Party at the Harold Pinter Theatre review ****

    The Birthday Party Harold Pinter Theatre, 21st March 2018 Look into his eyes. look right into his eyes. Old Harold Pinter didn’t seem that menacing did he? But, as you well know, he created a whole genre of “comedy” presenting the violent and sinister which lurks below the everyday and…

  • Hamlet at the Hackney Empire review ****

    Hamlet Hackney Empire, 19th March 2018 Working on the premise that it surely is impossible to see Hamlet too often in a lifetime, and keen to make sure the RSC continues to bring as many productions as possible to London, I signed up some time ago for this gig. This…

  • Lord of the Flies at Greenwich Theatre review ****

    Lord of the Flies Greenwich Theatre, 17th March 2018 The second instalment in the Lazarus Theatre Company residency at the Greenwich Theatre and another cracker after their superb Edward II (Edward II at Greenwich Theatre review ****) On the basis of these two the final production of A Midsummer Night’s…

  • A (flawed) guide to London theatres

    When I was a young teenager I took to making up some very odd games. I wasn’t lonely, with a handful of very good friends as I remember, and my very earliest encounters with the ladies were amongst my most successful, since my true nature, an awkward mix of the…

  • Summer and Smoke at the Almeida Theatre review ****

    Summer and Smoke Almeida Theatre, 14th March 2018 I don’t always find it easy to get into the “Tennessee Williams zone”. My head takes a little bit of time to adjust to all that dreamy lyricism and I find it easier to stomach if there is something to cling on…