Tag: Park Theatre

  • The Retreat at the Park Theatre review ***

    The Retreat Park Theatre, 30th November 2017 So here is another offering from the Park which, whilst offering a very entertaining night out, didn’t quite deliver a whole commensurate with the sum of its parts. And very fine parts they were too. Sam Bain, with writing partner Jesse Armstrong, is…

  • What Shadows at the Park Theatre review ****

    What Shadows Park Theatre, 19th October 2005 The Park Theatre has pulled off a bit of a coup in bringing the Birmingham Rep’s production of What Shadows to London. It has been a deserved sell out. I have some misgivings, there were times when the didactisism verged on the patronising,…

  • Loot at the Park Theatre review ****

    Loot Park Theatre, 14th September 2017 There has been a lot of progress in the last 50 years in this country. Good people are more tolerant and accepting of the identity of others (though there are still plenty of bigoted d*ckheads to be found polluting the discourse), The fairy tales…

  • Rabbits at the Park Theatre review ***

    Rabbits Park Theatre, 17th August 2017 Even after seeing Rabbits I am scratching my head somewhat as to why I did. Others have remarked on the slightly wayward output of the Park Theatre under Jez Bond’s tutelage but you can’t fault the breadth of the offers and it is all…

  • Twitstorm at the Park Theatre review ***

    Twitstorm Park Theatre, 15th June 2017 Right then. Where to start with Twitstorm, a new play by Chris England, which has a couple more weeks to run at the Park Theatre. Well once again the Park has taken an intriguing and a la mode idea and stuffed it full of…

  • Some ideas for the culturally inclined in London

    Here is a very brief round-up, (apparently I can drone on a bit so have tried to be disciplined), of the current and forthcoming major theatre and exhibition events in London that have caught my eye (and ear). I have a list of classical concerts which is still good to go…

  • London theatre update

    Focussing on theatre and couldn’t be arsed to put in a photo. Most of this below post still applies but a few new shiny things have caught my beady eye. Some ideas for the culturally inclined in London At the Barbican booking opening for a Japanese version of Macbeth which…