Tag: Hampstead Theatre
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Uncle Vanya at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
Uncle Vanya Hampstead Theatre, 12th January 2019 Should you be tempted to follow the Tourist into a life of excess …. theatre-going … then I have a warning. These luvvies do put on a lot of Shakespeare. No surprise there I guess. But they also really, really love their Chekhov.…
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The Humans at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
The Humans Hampstead Theatre Main Stage, 3rd October 2018 Sometimes it can feel like the whole history of US theatrical drama is one long story of family dysfunctionality. Mind you you can see why. When it works, Miller, O’Neill, Williams, Albee, Shepherd, Wilson, Kushner, to name a few, it is…
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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.…
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The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York’s Theatre review ****
The Moderate Soprano Duke of York’s Theatre, 7th June 1018 There are a couple of weeks to go in the run of David Hare’s The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York’s Theatre. There are plenty of (discounted) tickets left. You could do a lot worse than seeing this if…
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Describe the Night at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
Describe The Night Hampstead Theatre, 23rd May 2018 In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Describe the Night hasn’t gone down too well with the London critics. The SO and I think they might have missed a…
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Caroline, or Change at the Hampstead Theatre review *****
Caroline, or Change Hampstead Theatre, 18th April 2018 How many exceptions does it take before the rule is unproven? I don’t, as a rule, like musicals, as I have oft repeated on these very pages. I absolutely adored this though. That might be because it isn’t your classic show tunes,…
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Dry Powder at the Hampstead Theatre review ****
Dry Powder Hampstead Theatre, 29th January 2018 At last a play about the world of “high finance” which does not wade in with both feet in some ham-fisted (I know, mangled metaphors), didactic attempt to explain to the audience why it is “evil”. Actually that is a little unfair as…
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Cell Mates at the Hampstead Theatre review ***
Cell Mates Hampstead Theatre, 10th January 2018 This was my first experience of the work of prolific playwright/novelist/diarist/academic Simon Gray whose stage texts were so adored by luminaries such as Peter Hall, Harold Pinter, (who directed many of his premieres), and Alan Bates, (who starred in them). Cell Mates, of…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 