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  • Pericles, Prince de Tyr at Silk Street Theatre review *****

    Pericles, Prince de Tyr Barbican Silk Street Theatre, 19th April 2018 Trust me. You can trust experts. Parading your own ignorance against all the evidence of those who know more than you, just to satisfy your own prejudice, is an ugly human foible. In the very small commercial world of…

  • Hamlet at the Hackney Empire review ****

    Hamlet Hackney Empire, 19th March 2018 Working on the premise that it surely is impossible to see Hamlet too often in a lifetime, and keen to make sure the RSC continues to bring as many productions as possible to London, I signed up some time ago for this gig. This…

  • Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre *****

    Julius Caesar Bridge Theatre, 28th February 2018 I had really, really been looking forward to this. Julius Caesar is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays. Contemporary relevance of course, but Shakespeare always has relevance. My appetite whetted by the excellent RSC production I saw at the Barbican last month, (Julius…

  • Julius Caesar at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Julius Caesar Royal Shakespeare Company, Barbican Theatre, 11th January 2018 The third instalment, (for me), of the RSC “Rome” season at the Barbican which originally aired at Stratford. And, as is so often the case with this idiotic blog, it is about to end and is sold out anyway. Et…

  • Titus Andronicus at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Titus Andronicus Barbican Theatre, 13th December 2017 Titus Andronicus is a comedy right. Yet I see it is customarily bracketed with the other Shakespearean tragedies, and here forms part of the RSC’s latest take on the quartet of Roman tragedies, entitled, er, Rome. Now I know this comedy/tragedy/history play division…

  • Coriolanus at the Barbican Theatre review *****

    Coriolanus Barbican Theatre, 16th and 17th November 2017 This angry looking chap is Sope Dirisu and he is playing Caius Martius ,who you might know better as Coriolanus, in the RSC’s latest production of Shakespeare’s last proper “tragedy”. This will be followed from Stratford to London by the other plays…

  • Ninagawa’s Macbeth at the Barbican Theatre review ****

    Macbeth Barbican Theatre, 8th October 2017 When I was a young’un, come to make my fortune in the Big Smoke, I was lucky enough to secure free or cut price tickets to productions at the Barbican and NT. But then, as now, I am afraid I was more “Dick” than…

  • The Tempest at the Barbican review ****

    The Tempest Barbican Theatre, 27th July 2017 Now I would watch Simon Russell Beale read the telephone directory. Particular past favourites of mine include a Brechtian Galileo, a Face in the Alchemist, alongside Alex Jennings and Lesley Manville, his Stalin in Collaborators, a Timon in the Hytner production, which persuaded…

  • Richard III at the Arcola Theatre review ****

    Richard III Arcola Theatre, 10th June 2017 I have had a surfeit of Dickie IIIs over the last few years. Mind you I am not complaining. Mark Rylance on his return to the Globe found a vulnerable, despairing Richard who didn’t seem to care about his actions. Ralph Fiennes was…

  • Othello at Wilton’s Music Hall review ****

    Othello Wilton’s Music Hall, 17th May 2017 I think Othello is my favourite Shakespeare tragedy. And it follows, therefore, that it is my favourite Shakespeare play since the tragedies generally kick the most arse. And it therefore also follows that it is probably my favourite ever play since no-one bests…