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Little Baby Jesus at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****
Little Baby Jesus Orange Tree Theatre, 28th October 2019 No flies on this. Arinze Kene’s coming of age play which first appeared at the OvalHouse in 2011 is high octane stuff. Which here, under the direction of this year’s winner of the JMK Award, Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu, and a committed cast…
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“Master Harold” … and the boys at the National Theatre review *****
“Master Harold” … and the boys National Theatre Lyttleton, 26th October 2019 I was surprised by this. Not by the content. Athol Fugard, like his compatriot in the plastic arts William Kentridge, has more than enough inspiration to fuel his art from the history of his nation. Master Harold, like…
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A View from the Bridge at the Royal and Derngate Theatre review ****
A View From The Bridge Royal and Derngate, Northampton, 24th October 2019 The Tourist’s last exposure to Arthur Miller’s oppressive tale of an ordinary man brought low by his particularly disturbing brand of hamartia was Ivo van Hove’s stripped bare psychodrama with Mark Strong at his very best as Eddie…
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Thomas Ades and the LPO at the Royal Festival Hall review *****
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Adès (conductor), Kirill Gerstein (piano), Ladies of the London Philharmonic Choir Royal Festival Hall, 23rd October 2019 Sibelius – Nightride and Sunrise, Op 55 Thomas Adès – Concerto for piano & orchestra Holst – The Planets, Op 32 An opportunity to break MS into the world of modern/contemporary…
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Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads at the Spiegeltent Chichester
Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads Spigeltent, Chichester Festival Theatre, 17th October 2019 There are a few candidates for my favourite play of 2019. Lynn Nottage’s stunning Sweat at the Donmar Warehouse, or either of the revivals of the Miller classics at the Old and Young Vics respectively, All…
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Macbeth at the Chichester Festival Theatre review ***
Macbeth Chichester Festival Theatre, 16th October 2019 Still waiting for that, ha ha, killer production of Macbeth. This unfortunately wasn’t it. Paul Miller, the inestimable AD of the punching-above-its-weight Orange Tree, had money to spend here. An 18 strong cast (with many actors in minor roles that had caught my…
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Posh at the Rose Kingston review ****
Posh Rose Theatre Kingston, 15th October 2019 Another play on the wish list. Not that Laura Wade’s Posh hasn’t had regular outing since it first appeared at the Royal Court in 2010. And, memorably it was made into a film The Riot Club, in 2014 directed by Danish director Lone…
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The Permanent Way at The Vaults review *****
The Permanent Way The Vaults, 13th October 2019 I have to hand it Debbie Hicks and Alexander Lass, producer and director of The Permanent Way. Whilst David Hare’s 2003 verbatim dissection of the Tory rail privatisation in the 1990s, and the four fatal disasters which followed, is an undeniably powerful…
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