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Good week / Bad week
03 September 2010 10:04 PM | No CommentsGood week for Russell Kane, Deathtrap and Tony Kushner. Not so hot for the lovely little Courtyard theatre.
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Review – Hänsel und Gretel, Glyndebourne
31 August 2010 7:50 AM | No CommentsI once thought it might be a jolly idea to join Glyndebourne. “Think again, sunshine” came the clear response
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Review – Deathtrap, Nöel Coward Theatre
26 August 2010 6:10 PM | No CommentsThis play is really very well done. Slickly directed and performed, beautifully designed and nicely lit. Pity about the audience.
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RE: Grade inflation
25 August 2010 9:17 AM | No CommentsFrankly, the sooner this Internet is turned off the better.
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Review – Chris Addison, Assembly George Street
25 August 2010 6:10 AM | No CommentsThe young guy from the political show with the guy who swears a lot
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Archive for August, 2009
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Review – Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst, Pleasance Courtyard
Posted on August 31, 2009 | 1 CommentIt won’t come as a surprise to Rhod Gilbert afficionados (Gilbertados, as they are known) that it hasn’t been a good year for the comic. After his 08 Fringe show, he was accused by the critics of focusing on daily annoyances at the expense of... -
Review – Arcadia, Duke of Yorks
Posted on August 23, 2009 | 2 CommentsBeing told that you are in seat AA1 is exceptionally good news if you’re at an airport. At a theatre, however… In this instance, however, all was not lost. There was quite a lot of neck craning going on in the first half, after which... -
Alan Bennett: The Second Subsidy
Posted on August 20, 2009 | 1 Comment“The challenge for the NT in future will be to replace what has effectively been a boost in subsidy provided during the years of The History Boys” The National Theatre announced it’s Autumn season today, but what they really announced was details of the new... -
Review – Hamlet, Donmar/Wyndhams
Posted on August 17, 2009 | 1 CommentThe wonderful thing about each production of Hamlet is that it feels completely different to its predecessors. Just by virtue of the play’s staggering length in the folio (not to mention the quarto version to boot), it’s impossible to perform intact and, as such, each... -
Review – The Girlfriend Experience, Young Vic
Posted on August 15, 2009 | 2 CommentsThe Recorded Delivery Writing and Performance Technique consists of recordings being played to actors through headphones during the performance, allowing them to copy “not just the words but exactly the way in which they were first spoken” so that “every cough, stutter and hesitation is... -
"The under 25s are an abomination and a disgrace to our society." Discuss.
Posted on August 9, 2009 | No CommentsLast week’s Sunday Times carried a pretty thin article repeating lots of the old stories about audiences behaving badly. The hook is that “A number of West End theatres are now employing bouncers to cope with intoxicated patrons” – quite what drove the Times, The... -
Review – The Mountaintop, Trafalgar Studios
Posted on August 8, 2009 | No CommentsThe Mountaintop by Katori Hall invites us into the motel room in which Martin Luther King (David Harewood) spends his last night before his assassination and through an encounter with a maid (Lorraine Burroughs) to whom there is more than meets the eye. The portrait... -
A Night Less Ordinary
Posted on August 7, 2009 | No CommentsBefore the Arts Council decided that it was all about the middle aged, they used to think that theatre was all about the young people. A relic of this golden age is A Night Less Ordinary, a remarkable scheme whereby those under 26 years old...
