Tag: Max Pappenheim
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Beckett Trilogy at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****(and some other at-home Beckett stuff)
Beckett Trilogy: Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe, The Old Tune Jermyn Street Theatre, 4th February 2020 Fragments: Beckett by Brook – Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither , Come and Go – VIMEO, Bouffes du Nord – 26th March 2020 Endgame/Rough for Theatre II – Digital…
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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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The Night of the Iguana at the Noel Coward Theatre review ***
The Night of the Iguana Noel Coward Theatre, 16th September 2019 Last minute purchase. Just about worthwhile. The Night of the Iguana is not normally considered one of Tennessee William’s greatest hits, and I am certainly no TW completist, but the cast, the director, James Macdonald, the designer, Rae Smith,…
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Creditors at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****
Creditors Jermyn Street Theatre, 27th April 2019 I am still tiptoeing my way into Strindberg. A long history of ignoring him after an early dismissal many years ago was corrected with the companion piece to this, a version of Miss Julie, also translated by Howard Brenton, also directed by JST…
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The Talented Mr Ripley at the Vault Festival review ****
The Talented Mr Ripley The Faction, Vault Festival, 14th March 2019 Having missed this on a couple of previous occasions the Tourist was delighted to see it pop up on the Vault listings and even more delighted that the SO deigned to come. Downfall or The Talented Mr Ripley. The…
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Cuzco at Theatre 503 review ***
Cuzco Theatre 503, 13th February 2019 Wednesday afternoon. Quite nice weather as I recall. Near the end of the run. No great surprise that Theatre 503, (above the Latchmere in Battersea), was home to just a few, presumably, lost souls including your intrepid correspondent. Hopefully a few more punters pitched…
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The Funeral Director at the Southwark Playhouse review ****
The Funeral Director Southwark Playhouse, 6th November 2018 The Papatango New Writing Prize, which kicked off in 2009, is the first and only playwriting award which guarantees the winner a full scale professional production, a share of the takings and a commission for a follow up. Whilst I missed last…
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Hogarth’s Progress at the Rose Kingston review ***
Hogarth’s Progress: The Art of Success and The Taste of the Town Rose Theatre Kingston, 21st October 2018 South West London was a popular place for the cultural, liberal, metropolitan elite in the first half of the C18. It still is. Hogarth, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Alexander Pope,…
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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…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 