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Review – Hamlet, Young Vic
27 November 2011 3:35 PM | No CommentsMichael Sheen. Not Martin Sheen.
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Review – Comedy of Errors, National Theatre
27 November 2011 2:15 PM | 1 CommentA couple of years ago the idea of Lenny Henry as a Shakespearean actor was a joke. No longer.
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Review – Othello, Sheffield Crucible
22 October 2011 9:50 AM | 4 CommentsA guest blog (guest blog!)
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Review – Simon Callow in Tuesdays at Tescos, Assembly Hall
20 August 2011 9:28 AM | 1 CommentWhat an embarrassing title. I'm embarrassed by it, and I'm not even Simon Callow. ★★
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Review – The Wheel, Traverse Theatre
14 August 2011 10:05 PM | No CommentsInteresting and technically excellent, but lacking in characters to care about. ★★★
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Archive for 2009
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Courage, mon brave
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 1 CommentMother Courage at the National Theatre It’s difficult to imagine a production which has generated more binary responses than Deborah Warner’s Mother Courage and Her Children at the National Theatre. Even before it opened it was controvertial, with The Guardian at least, and this has... -
Book now: Jerusalem and Enron West End transfer
Posted on September 27, 2009 | 2 CommentsJerusalem Just a quick reminder that booking is now open for the West End transfers of Jerusalem and ENRON at the Apollo and Noel Coward theatres. ENRON, which has done particularly well to get a transfer before it even opens at Sloane Square – although... -
Review – Mother Courage and Her Children, National Theatre
Posted on September 18, 2009 | 14 CommentsMother Courage at the National Theatre Earlier this year, British Airways launched an offer whereby buying an economy ticket to certain destinations earned a free upgrade on the return flight. With Mother Courage and Her Children the National Theatre seems to be trying something similar:... -
Review – Daniel Sloss: Teenage Kicks, Pleasance Dome
Posted on September 3, 2009 | No CommentsRemember Family Fortunes? Well, we asked a hundred fringegoers on the Royal Mile what they knew about Daniel Sloss, and our survey saaaid: He’s 18 This is his third year at the Fringe Frankie Boyle thinks he’s funny But that’s not all. He’s also from... -
Review – Rhod Gilbert and the Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst, Pleasance Courtyard
Posted on August 31, 2009 | 1 CommentRhod Gilbert It 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... -
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 | 2 CommentsHamlet The 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,... -
Review – The Girlfriend Experience, Young Vic
Posted on August 15, 2009 | 3 CommentsThe Girlfriend Experience The 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... -
"The under 25s are an abomination and a disgrace to our society." Discuss.
Posted on August 9, 2009 | No CommentsYouth of today Last 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...
