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Category: Theatre

  • Doubt, A Parable at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    Doubt, A Parable Southwark Playhouse, 26th September 2017 Once again a review of a play whose run is over. Apologies. This revival of Doubt, A Parable, by US playwright JP Shanley, was efficiently directed by Che Walker, but turned out to be a little slighter in form and content than…

  • The Unknown Island at the Gate Theatre review ***

    The Unknown Island The Gate Theatre, 23rd September 2017 Saturday matinees at the Gate Theatre  represent an astonishing bargain by “that London” standards (as do Wednesday matinees though they are limited to us economically unproductive types). So I could traipse up to Wembley to watch Spurs stuff Bournemouth for just…

  • Girl From the North Country review ****

    Girl From the North Country The Old Vic, 20th September 2017 (Girl From the North Country is transferring to the Noel Coward Theatre from 29th Dec 2017 through to 24th Mar 2018) I am afraid there is a bit of a rant coming. If the Old Vic is going to…

  • Knives in Hens at the Donmar Warehouse review *****

    Knives in Hens Donmar Warehouse, 21st September 2017 Now I guessed I was going to like this. All the clever folk who know about plays and stuff had raved about it. Written in 1995 by David Harrower it is considered a classic of British modern theatre. Its ostensible subject matter,…

  • Oslo at the National Theatre review *****

    Oslo National Theatre, 19th September 2017 Well I’ll be damned. I didn’t book Oslo at the earliest opportunity, as is my wont for most of the NT output, and only took a swing at it because of the NYC reviews. And even then I wasn’t sure. I mean how could…

  • Mosquitoes at the National Theatre review ****

    Mosquitoes National Theatre, 18th September 2017 Two sisters. Some sad stuff happens to them. Sciencey backdrop. There you go. That’s Mosquitoes. Except that is isn’t. Lucy Kirkwood is not the type of playwright to let us off the hook that easily. She chucks a lot into this pot, brings it…

  • Man to Man at Wilton’s Music Hall review ***

    Man to Man Wilton’s Music Hall, 15th September 2017 I am confused about this. Is it an expressionistic masterpiece that explores the nature of gender identity and German history through devastating poetry, or a piece of pretentious fuck-wittery which couldn’t be bothered to serve us up a coherent story? Was…

  • Loot at the Park Theatre review ****

    Loot Park Theatre, 14th September 2017 There has been a lot of progress in the last 50 years in this country. Good people are more tolerant and accepting of the identity of others (though there are still plenty of bigoted d*ckheads to be found polluting the discourse), The fairy tales…

  • Cat On a Hit Tin Roof at the Apollo Theatre review ***

    Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Apollo Theatre, 13th September 2017 Hmm. I was expecting so much more of this production. It’s Tennessee Williams. An all star cast. The imprimatur of the Young Vic. And Benedict Andrews, who was responsible for the, by all accounts, revelatory A Streetcar Named Desire…

  • Judith at the Arcola Theatre review ***

    Judith: A Parting from the Body Arcola Theatre, 7th September 2017 I am guessing they don’t watch Bake-Off in the Barker household. Howard Barker does not write easy plays. By his own admission he wants each of us to experience his plays as an individual: none of that namby-pamby rush…