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Category: Theatre

  • Babette’s Feast at the Print Room Coronet review ****

    Babette’s Feast Print Room at the Coronet, 10th May, 2017 Ahh Babette’s Feast. A gently understated but uplifting Oscar winning film directed by Gabriel Axel (it beat Au Revoir Les Enfants to the 1987 foreign film prize !!) that ranks pretty high up on my list of all time faves.…

  • City of Glass at the Lyric Hammersmith review **

    City of Glass Lyric Hammersmith, May 11th 2017 So I remembered too late. I have thumbed copies of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy so I think I must have read it, or at the very least City of Glass, when it came out in the 1980’s as any young, trendyish, new-to-theworld-of-work-but-still-able-to-go-out,…

  • The Ferryman at the Royal Court Theatre review *****

    The Ferryman Royal Court Theatre, 11th May 2017 Right then. For once the tourist finds himself not seeing a performance near the end of the run, casting off his usual workshy approach to blog posting and sufficiently motivated to rave about something. So just to say THIS IS FECKING OUTSTANDING. If…

  • Madame Rubinstein at the Park Theatre review ****

    Madame Rubinstein Park Theatre, 4th May 2017 Jez Bond and his team at the Park Theatre (with the help and goodwill of assorted North London luvvies I think) are doing an ever more successful job in my view in staging new plays and productions that people want, or should want,…

  • Junkyard at the Rose Theatre review *****

    Junkyard Rose Theatre Kingston, 30th April 2017 Once again I am writing some thoughts about a play (well musical in this case) which has been and gone. I really haven’t got the hang of this have I. Still this blog is mostly to stop me from annoying the rest of…

  • Hysteria at the Greenwich Theatre review ****

    Hysteria Greenwich Theatre, 29th April 2017 I will keep this short and sweet. Whilst this production by London Classic Theatre has been and gone from Greenwich it is still touring with dates in Oldham, Yeovil, Newtown, Aberdare, Dunstable and Colchester. In my view this kind of touring productions deserves your…

  • The Plague at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    The Plague Arcola Theatre, 27th April 2017 I booked this not knowing quite what to expect. I couldn’t really visualise how this was going to be staged but was intrigued at the idea. Well more fool me. Neil Bartlett and the cast have done a wonderful job in bringing Camus’s…

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Harold Pinter theatre review ****

    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th April 2017 So I came quite late, as is my wont, to this particular party for one reason and another. There is still a month to go on the run though and this is definitely worth seeing. Though it still looks…

  • Consent at the National Theatre review *****

    Consent Dorfman, National Theatre, 27th April 2017 Crikey. This is a very fine piece of theatre make no mistake. This was my first exposure to Nina Raine’s writing though I had been really looking forward to it based on what I had read about her previous works and on the…

  • Incident at Vichy at the Finborough Theatre review ****

    Incident at Vichy Finborough Theatre, 16th April 2017 I haven’t see that many productions at the Finborough but what I have seen there has been uniformly excellent. This was no exception. This is an Arthur Miller play which premiered in 1964 and was prompted in part by a visit with…

  • The Crucible at Richmond Theatre review ****

    The Crucible Richmond Theatre, 15th April 2017 So in the interests of full disclosure Arthur Miller’s Crucible is one of my favourite plays. I know it is not original, I know that it is not historically accurate (doh, it is a play, it doesn’t have to be), I know it…

  • The Winter’s Tale at the Barbican review ****

    The Winter’s Tale Silk Street Theatre, 18th April 2017 Now I have always thought if you just cut out the “pastoral comedy” fourth act from the “comedy” The Winter’s Tale, stopped calling it a “romance” because you can’t think of a better name and reined back the “magic” then you…