At Home He Feels Like A Tourist

  • Love and Information at Sheffield Theatres review *****

    Love and Information Sheffield Crucible Theatre Studio, 7th July 2018 So here was my cunning plan. LD wanted/needed to have a sniff around the University. I spied this revival on the very evening. A chance to have a good look at this fine city. And, though not the original intention,…

  • One for Sorrow at the Royal Court Theatre ****

    One For Sorrow Royal Court Theatre, 5th July 2018 Sometimes I wonder why I bother with this blog. It takes me so long to get round to seeing and commenting on anything that any post here is worse than useless to the unlucky reader who inadvertently stumbles across it. And…

  • The Turn of the Screw at the Open Air Theatre review *****

    The Turn of the Screw Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, ENO, 29th June 2018 Benjamin Britten. The Turn of the Screw. Members of the ENO Orchestra conducted by up and coming talent Toby Purser. Timothy Sheader directing. A Soutra Gilmour set. At the Open Air Theatre. On a beautiful late…

  • Monogamy at the Park Theatre review ***

    Monogamy Park Theatre 200, 28th June 2018 This was a curious confection. Playwright Torben Betts (there his is above) has, by all accounts, made a very creditable stab exploring the comic social realism so expertly, and prolifically, mined by his one time mentor Alan Ayckbourn. Here is another to follow…

  • Machinal at the Almeida Theatre review ****

    Machinal Almeida Theatre, 27th June 2018 I always like to do as much reading as I can before seeing a play. Reviews, synopses, articles, cross referencing creatives to previous work. You get the idea. The SO however will have none of that, preferring to go in cold and then see…

  • America’s Cool Modernism at the Ashmolean Museum review ****

    America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keefe to Hopper Ashmolean Museum, 26th June 2018 Those clever people at the Ashmolean in Oxford have come up with another fine exhibition to rank alongside last year’s survey of Modernism in France Creating Modernism in France at the Ashmolean Museum review ****). There are plenty of…

  • Genesis Inc at the Hampstead Theatre review **

    Genesis Inc. Hampstead Theatre Upstairs, 25th June 2018 Sometimes less is more. A lesson that writer Jemma Kennedy and director Laurie Sansom here chose to, if not ignore, certainly bypass. Made even more frustrating because, at the kernel of this play, and in its execution, are some very good ideas.…

  • Sea Wall at the Old Vic Theatre review

    Sea Wall Old Vic Theatre, 23rd June 2018 I might have told this story before. My memory is failing. A few years ago the SO, BD and LD went to see Groundhog Day at the Old Vic. Terrific film and terrific musical. Made more terrific by the presence of Ben…

  • Cave at the Printworks review ****

    Cave The Printworks, Surrey Quays, 23rd June 2018 Cave is the second collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake. Their last work, Between Worlds, which took as its subject the Twin Towers on 9/11, was superb. It was an immensely moving and sensitive elegy which focussed on the…

  • Zama film review ****

    Zama, 22nd June 2018 Now here is a work of imagination. Just what film is for. I suspect its languorous pace might not be to everyone’s taste but it delicately captures the sense of isolation and ennui that its hero, the eponymous Diego de Zama finds himself trapped in. We…