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Category: Theatre

  • Victory Condition at the Royal Court Theatre review **

    Victory Condition Royal Court Theatre, 12th October 2017 Apparently the writer of Victory Condition, Chris Thorpe, likes to experiment with the dramatic form. I haven’t seen Confirmation, a one man work in which he also took the lead as a white supremacist, which apparently prodded and provoked its audience. It…

  • B at the Royal Court Theatre review ***

    B Royal Court Theatre, 12th October 2017 I wasn’t entirely sure what to see from the plays on offer in this latest season at the Royal Court. I don’t know enough about the writers and the teasers on the website are exactly that, teasers. Seeing too many is an extravagance,…

  • The Real Thing at the Rose Theatre Kingston review ****

    The Real Thing Rose Theatre Kingston, 10th October 2017 Thinking cap donned it’s a short hop to the Rose for the next leg in my Stoppard education. And what a fine lesson this production, (shared with the Theatre Royal Bath and Cambridge Arts Theatre), tuned out to be. Once director…

  • The Seagull at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

    The Seagull Lyric Hammersmith, 9th October 2017 Right where I come from seagulls are a bloody menace. There are times when I feel the same way about Chekhov. You sit there thinking all his people are self-indulgent, lovelorn whingers who just need to lighten up and get a grip. But…

  • Ninagawa’s Macbeth at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Macbeth Barbican Theatre, 8th October 2017 When I was a young’un, come to make my fortune in the Big Smoke, I was lucky enough to secure free or cut price tickets to productions at the Barbican and NT. But then, as now, I am afraid I was more “Dick” than…

  • My Name is Rachel Corrie at the Young Vic review ****

    My Name is Rachel Corrie Young Vic, 6th October 2017 I have raved about actor Erin Doherty in the past. She was the lynchpin in the excellent ensemble for Jack Thorne’s Junkyard (Junkyard at the Rose Theatre review *****), and was unbearably poignant in Katherine Soper’s excellent debut play Wish…

  • Angel at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    Angel Arcola Theatre, 4th October 2017 I had been hoping to get an opportunity to see Angel after reading a review of the premiere at the Edinburgh Festival last year. I had read of the very sad death of the actor, Filipa Branganca, who had played the role of the…

  • After the Rehearsal at the Barbican Theatre review ***

    After the Rehearsal Barbican Theatre, 28th September 2017 So what was this going to be? Another flawed, portentous (pretentious?), langourous stroll through a story which might better have been left in its original format, like Obsession here at the Barbican earlier this year in the Toneelgroep Amsterdam Residency? Or a…

  • The Wipers Times at Richmond Theatre review **

    The Wipers Times Richmond Theatre, 27th September 2017 The Wipers Times has been knocking about for a couple of years know having morphed from the TV drama written by Ian Hislop and regular partner Nick Newman (which I didn’t see) into the play version at Newbury and then the Arts…

  • The Best Man at Richmond Theatre review ****

    The Best Man Richmond Theatre, 2nd October 2017 N.B. The Best Man has, as I confidently expected, found its way to the West End, to wit the Playhouse Theatre where it opens on 24th February and runs through until 12th May. Well worth a visit and not ridiculously priced, though…