Tuesday, March 18, 2025
THE UNSERIOUS UNDEAD  "You will be horrified!" The five players announce, "- one way or another". And with a flourish they hurl Bram Stoker's book behind them into Tijana Bjelajac's…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 13, 2025
A STRANGE WARTIME FABLE OF LIFE, BIRTH AND JEWELLERY Â In a little Jeweller's shop in 1942Â Paris Joseph Haffmann is making a deal with his young assistant Pierre. Â He is Jewish, a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 8, 2025
AN ANCIENT BRUTALITY, RIGHT HERE     Five women from the past mount the stage, candlelit, to enact theterrible story of the 17c Suffolk witch-trials.  First there…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2025
BRUTAL, VIOLENT AND TENDER   Around a King's coffin surge personalities and politics , power plays and lineage . A royal bier is loaded with crown and jewelled cross, around …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Â HEROIC STORY, NEAR MISS Â Â It could hardly be a better theme and story for this terrific little theatre, which since its opening has explored the darkness of Nazism and the heroism…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 1, 2025
A TROUSER-LEG TSUNAMI AND A COATHANGER DREAM     They came off the boats: a Windrush generation, wanting to work and live in cold strange Britain.  In an upper…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2025
HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD     This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]A RAVE IN MESSINA Get da kids into Shakespeare! The world worries about it. So Jamie Lloyd hits a formula hard to beat with one of the sunniest comedies (only one pretend death). So …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2025
MOTHERHOOD, FOR LIFE     Had there been trigger warnings they might add "extreme nursing" alongside the usual alerts about sickness, death, abortion and conflict. Believe …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2025
A THREAT CALLED AGGIE . Good when the news feeds theatre-moments. This week, AI solved in two days a medical conundrum which had baffled humans for a decade. On the other hand,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2025
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write "merchant of Vegas"…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2025
RICHARD II     Bridge Theatre, SE1  A THRILLING DANCE AROUND A CROWN    This is one of the most lyrically lovely, metaphorically rich of Shakespeare's…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2025
A TRICYCLE MADE FOR THREE?   After Mike Bartlett's COCK " where one of a gay male couple falls for a girl " I wrote that the poor sap of a hero thinks he he choosing a sexuality …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:52AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2025
A BRITISH BASTARD STALKS THROUGH HISTORY   What's to be done about truly awful people: amoral, selfishly irresponsible, arrogant and greedy? A time-honoured British appr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2025
  A GREAT TURNING POINT, CAUGHT IN ASPIC  It is 1942.  Prime minister Churchill has travelled to Moscow to meet Stalin. Each side has a problem at home with voices wanting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PM[SHARE]WILD SHORES IN WARTIME   Risk taking a gap between seeing David Greig plays and you forget how downright louche things are likely to turn out. (I had lately revelled in Prudencia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindraand Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de force. Ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2025
   ABSURDITY AND SUBLIMITY After the glorious Parisian detail of the revived Rigoletto here , Johannes Schutz' spare bland box with only four flat doors is an opposite take…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2025
FUNNY ABOUT THE UNFUNNY     Billy Bash,  rated the third most offensive comedian in Britain, was once the dominant partner in Biddle and Bash. He's still on tour,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2025
A DARKER THOMAS CROMWELL     Edward Bennett as Thomas Cromwell is a proper thug: everyone's memory of the HR-outplacement weasel who starts the sacking meeting wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 18, 2025
 SUBURBAN ANGST IN THE NEW SA There's nothing like a tight, awkward comedy of neighbourhood strife, where neighbourly differences reveal unexpected fissures within the couples, and tiny p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2025
AT THE SUMMIT OF RAGE AND HOPE     Fear not, this isn't a Greta-gloom lecture but a lively, imaginative, borderline wild reconstruction of the years culminatin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:28AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2025
NO SINKING FEELINGS HERE, GIRLFRIEND Call it a jukebox musical if you like, but only if the jukebox came alive, went rogue and started tottering around the stage on rubber feet hurling insul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2024
SACRED MONSTERS IN THE UNDERWORLD Deep darkness within the U-shaped seating,: Â into it on wheels glides the dark gondola:Â Charon the ferryman, after millennia punting to and fro acro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2024
A HIGH-KICKING WOODEN WONDER     Serious fun, this. Never liked the Disney Pinocchio, or even in childhood the over-preachy Carlo Collodi book about the defiant wooden…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2024
PRESENT MIRTH HATH PRESENT LAUGHTER. AND MELANCHOLY. AND FALSE NOSES   In a play as familiar as this it is small touches that spring fresh life. Like the moment when the fool Fes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 11, 2024
SPRINGTIME FOR…EVERYONE    Joyful, headlong and full-hearted, here comes sacred outrage. If director Patrick Marber and the Menier had been minded to issue wet 'trigger…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23AM[SHARE]MAZELTOV! JEWISH PANTO STRIKES AGAIN    Goldie Frocks, rightful heiress to an East End schmutter workshop, has been enslaved by the evil Calvin Brine, whose behemoth of t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 8, 2024
FEARED IT MIGHT BE TUTU MUCH, BUT NO…   I immediately fell for Frankie Bradshaw's set: a two- storey house lined with fossil skeletons in cases, and a spirited opening in whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2024
LOOK BEYOND THE LETTUCE Â Â Â It is a tribute to Greg Wilkinson's monologue play that I had not previously seen the rise and fall of Liz Truss as having a gripping dramatic line.Â…
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