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Category: Theatre

  • Antony and Cleopatra at the Barbican Theatre review ***

    Antony and Cleopatra Barbican Theatre, 18th January 2018 The last instalment, for me, of the Rome season at the Barbican, and so late in the run that it has been and gone. Sorry. Anyway I have to say this was my least favourite of the four productions, though there was…

  • My Mum’s a Twat at the Royal Court Theatre review ***

    My Mum’s A Twat Royal Court Theatre, 16th January 2018 I am a fat bloke with a dodgy heart and a sore back in his 50s. So I should not be swanning around London without a care in the world hoovering up culture to make up for lost time. I…

  • The Twilight Zone at the Almeida Theatre review ***

    The Twilight Zone Almeida Theatre, 13th January 2018 Based on my entirely objective reviews, (of which more to follow when I get round to it), I see that the Almeida has, over the last three years or so, consistently offered the best theatrical experience in London. No great surprise really…

  • Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Julius Caesar Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 11th January 2018 The third instalment, (for me), of the RSC “Rome” season at the Barbican which originally aired at Stratford. And, as is so often the case with this idiotic blog, it is about to end and is sold out anyway. Et…

  • Cell Mates at the Hampstead Theatre review ***

    Cell Mates Hampstead Theatre, 10th January 2018 This was my first experience of the work of prolific playwright/novelist/diarist/academic Simon Gray whose stage texts were so adored by luminaries such as Peter Hall, Harold Pinter, (who directed many of his premieres), and Alan Bates, (who starred in them). Cell Mates, of…

  • The Here and This and Now at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

    The Here and This and Now Southwark Playhouse, 10th January 2017 OK homo sapiens. Enough with the exceptionalism. There is nothing special about you. Maybe you are more “intelligent” than any species that has inhabited the earth so far but you have only been around for a couple of hundred…

  • Daisy Pulls It Off at the Park Theatre review ***

    Daisy Pulls It Off Park Theatre 200, 16th December 2017 Funny thing the memory. Even more curious is consciousness itself. It used to be that clever folk conceptualised consciousness as a kind of “theatre of the mind”. Apparently now the cutting edge of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy says this dualism…

  • Titus Andronicus at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Titus Andronicus Barbican Theatre, 13th December 2017 Titus Andronicus is a comedy right. Yet I see it is customarily bracketed with the other Shakespearean tragedies, and here forms part of the RSC’s latest take on the quartet of Roman tragedies, entitled, er, Rome. Now I know this comedy/tragedy/history play division…

  • The Hound of the Baskervilles at Jermyn Street Theatre review ****

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Jermyn Street Theatre, 10th December 2017 Everyone likes Sherlock Holmes right. And everyone can see that the stories are ripe for comic treatment. Indeed you have probably seen this done on numerous occasions. Even the amazing Cumberbatch/Freeman/Moffat/Gatiss Sherlock, which is regarded with reverence in the…

  • Parliament Square at the Bush Theatre review *****

    Parliament Square Bush Theatre, 6th December 2017 As a few slightly unkind people have pointed out most of the “reviews” I somewhat sadly post on this “blog” are worse than useless as, more often than not, they appear after the event. Fair criticism but I can’t be toddling off to…