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Tag: Orange Tree Theatre

• Culture Friendship London Love Relationship Theatre

  Bodies at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

  Bodies Southwark Playhouse, 26th February 2019 Two’s Company is a theatre company which set out to explore plays written at the time of the Great War but has subsequently gone on to stage the English premiere of Hemingway’s only play and some Pinter productions. Here it has revived one of…

  March 16, 2019
• Comedy Culture History London Love Restoration Theatre

  The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree review ****

  The Double Dealer Orange Tree Theatre, 7th January 2019 Now everyone know’s that Restoration comedy is a tricky customer. What with the humour built on misogyny, that’s if it is funny at all. The satire of a social class few of us recognise. Texts are so thick, built on repartee,…

  January 17, 2019
• Business Culture London Theatre

  Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Dealing With Clair Orange Tree Theatre, 30th November 2019 The Orange Tree, along with the Royal Court, must presumably be one of Martin Crimp’s favourite theatres. Whilst he has primarily been engaged with writing libretti for George Benjamin’s excellent trio of operas in recent years, Into the Little Hill, Written…

  December 24, 2018
• Culture History London Renaissance Spain Theatre

  Losing Venice at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Losing Venice Orange Tree Theatre, 24th September 2018 A modicum of research was all that was required to realise that this was going to be a curious, but also intriguing, entertainment. Which is near enough exactly what it was. Jo Clifford’s play was a hit at the Edinburgh fringe when…

  October 8, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre 2018 review

  Directors’ Festival 2018 Katie Johnstone **** Precious Little Talent **** In the Night-Time (Before the Sun Rises) **** Right it was a brilliant idea last year. It was a brilliant idea this year. And it will be a brilliant idea next year (Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre review).…

  August 3, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Mayfly at the Orange Tree Theatre review *****

  Mayfly Orange Tree Theatre, 21st May 2018 A play set in a rural location about a family processing grief. Not a million miles away from the not entirely successful Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre I hear you clamour. (Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre review ***). Well yes after a fashion.…

  May 28, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…

  May 26, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Humble Boy at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Humble Boy Orange Tree Theatre, 11th April 2018 Sometimes it can be tricky to put your finger on exactly why a play doesn’t quite work for you. Other times it is easy. This was one of the latter. For me, writer Charlotte Jones lavishes so much attention on shoehorning in…

  April 19, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  A (flawed) guide to London theatres

  When I was a young teenager I took to making up some very odd games. I wasn’t lonely, with a handful of very good friends as I remember, and my very earliest encounters with the ladies were amongst my most successful, since my true nature, an awkward mix of the…

  March 20, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Out of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

  Out of Love Orange Tree Theatre, 6th February 2018 The second of the three co-productions with Paines Plough and Theatre Clywd and, for me, somewhat more persuasive than Black Mountain (Black Mountain at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***), though very different in subject and scope. Mind you, in both…

  February 12, 2018