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  • The Country Wife at Southwark Playhouse review ***

    The Country Wife Southwark Playhouse, 17th April 2018 I haven’t seen that many Restoration comedies. In fact if I take the list of notable examples of the genre offered up by Wiki I see it is a grand total of one, in the form of the NT’s Beaux Stratagem from…

  • The War Has Not Yet Started at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    The War Has Not Yet Started Southwark Playhouse, 18th January 2018 I don’t really read that much anymore. Which means I take a rather circuitous route to the acquisition of knowledge and satisfaction of curiosity. The page has been replaced by the stage, the museum and gallery, visits, music and…

  • The Here and This and Now at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

    The Here and This and Now Southwark Playhouse, 10th January 2017 OK homo sapiens. Enough with the exceptionalism. There is nothing special about you. Maybe you are more “intelligent” than any species that has inhabited the earth so far but you have only been around for a couple of hundred…

  • Mother Courage and Her Children at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    Mother Courage and Her Children Southwark Playhouse, 7th November 2017 Hmmm. I am torn. This was a mixed bag and no mistake. The good stuff first. Well it is Brecht so there will always be big issues to chew on, although here the anti-war appeal that lies at the heart…

  • Doubt, A Parable at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    Doubt, A Parable Southwark Playhouse, 26th September 2017 Once again a review of a play whose run is over. Apologies. This revival of Doubt, A Parable, by US playwright JP Shanley, was efficiently directed by Che Walker, but turned out to be a little slighter in form and content than…

  • Dessert at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    Dessert Southwark Playhouse, 5th August Dessert is the first play I have seen from actor/playwright Oliver Cotton and I have to say that overall I enjoyed it. Subtle it ain’t but it makes its points with a deal of humour, and occasionally, an enlightening punch. The title gives an insight:…

  • My favourite London theatre of 2016

    Right then. I know what you are thinking. Doesn’t this numpty know that it’s June 2017. Bit pointless talking about theatre from last year then. Well yes, you may well have a point. However this blog only started in March 2017 and it’s mine anyway so I can do what…

  • The Island at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

    The Island Southwark Playhouse, 5th June 2017 The Island was written by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, whose other major work is Sizwe Bansi is Dead, and first performed, illegally, by the writers to an integrated audience in Cape Town in 1973. It was devised and rehearsed in…

  • The Cardinal at the Southwark Playhouse review ***

    The Cardinal Southwark Playhouse, 16th May 2017 Scary picture huh. Southwark Playhouse is a constant whirr of activity serving up all manner of delights across the theatrical spectrum. I just never know what to expect. I am not so shallow as to buy a ticket on spec based on a…

  • London theatre update

    So a few things to note since the last London theatre update. Booking opens 5th May (earlier for members of various hues) for the new batch of productions at the National Theatre. I reckon tickets for Follies, the Sondheim musical with a cast of thousands and the pocket rocket Imelda Staunton…