Monday, September 9, 2024
UPMARKET EDINBURGH ROCK, SORT OF   Sir Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus accounts for a tenth of all crime bestsellers in the UK: the ancient mazes around Edinburgh Castle, set…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:46AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2024
A MOMENT FOR REMEMBERING Â Â A desk, leather chairs, a heap of file boxes, a single sunflower in a pot. Â The century has turned, and it's the last day in the office for Simon Wiesen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2024
On this day of the report, a reminder of those two excellent verbatim plays from two stages of the inquiry. How theatre, with Nicholas Kent, reacted . There have been other plays about the e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:25AM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2024
I IMPERSONATION, ILLUSION AND INTRIGUE Â Â Â Â Â Cottonwool clouds, a scatter of furniture and instruments, an ancient cine camera, a noble arch and some pillars and fake tree…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2024
ROLL UP, ROLL UP… Â Â Â Â What sharper summer draw than "The Greatest Show On Earth" remembered within one of the smallest theatres? Â Jonathan O"Boyle's production has the p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 8, 2024
LAUNDRY, LECHERY, LADIES, LAUGHTER    if anyone is ever so impertinent as to demand an audition piece from the RSC-seasoned John Hodgkinson, I suggest he delivers " with…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2024
A TALL TALE, A SHIMMERING MAGIC Of all Shakespeare's plays this is now the rarest staged, not without reason: some early scenes are co- written with a contemporary John Wilkins, its tale is …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2024
 L'CHAIM ! THE VERY STUFF OF LIFE   Of course it helps to be under a real sky: a lone fiddler high above the cornfield scratches out the first lonely notes against the even…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 27, 2024
Duke Theseus offers instructions, Act 1 Scene 1.   "Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth!" …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2024
AS LONG AS WE NEED IT… To do a timeworn musical, entangled in all- too -familiar earworms, you can either sharpen, challenge and update it  or lovingly polish the old machine. If y…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2024
UP WHERE SHE BELONGS Imelda Staunton is a marvel, from Mama Rose in Gypsy to HMQ in The Crown. There is no lady of the stage more worthy of being greeted at the top of a Grand Staircase  …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:23AM[SHARE]GRISLY GLEE If there is any aspect of 21c Western culture  sorely in need of being laughed at,  it s ithe morbid fascination with police-procedural telly,, especially true-cri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2024
AN OVEN-READY MUSICAL, NEVER MUFFIN A MOMENT   As summer heats the merciless city, good to know that five minutes' south of London Bridge station is La France Profonde, a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2024
GEORGIANS IN THE PINK, AND SOMEWHAT PUNK     Sheridan's social satire from the 1770s hits the age of fake news, viral reputation-trashing and post-imperial embarra…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2024
ON THE EVE OF THE ELECTION….    …I emerged onto the Cut in a grey afternoon blinking tears, unable to process having been made to cry by James Corden. He's been for me Â…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53PM[SHARE]TEENAGE DREAMS, AND FAME AS NIGHTMARE Got to love the dedication of the Southwark: to mark its smaller-space production of Samantha Hurley's New York play about a demented teenage fan, it li…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2024
A THING OF WONDER    People who saw Mnemonic at its origin 25 years ago still talk about it. A few say it changed them. It was a collaborative, at first wholly unscript…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2024
A WARTIME SPRINGTIMEÂ Â Â Â It's not the reptile but the turtledove, as in the Song of Solomon "The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2024
AN ANGLO-INDIAN EDWARDIAN YORKSHIRE…Â Â Â Â Good to be back for another year, Â up on the high tiers in the last golden hour, waiting to watch the great trees darken against …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2024
YOUNG GENTLEMEN (AND LADIES) TO CELEBRATE
   This is very good fun indeed. Who does not want an onstage dog called Crab, benignly upstaging a rarely seen Shakespeare clown? A…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PM[SHARE]TWO YEARS AFTER THE NEXT ELECTION..    Here, a mere meringue's throw from Eton itself, is an imaginary Prime Minister of that ilk. Tidier in person and with a touch more inte…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
NYPD FAMILY BLUES Â Â Â Â Â I fell for the solid, paternal, irascible Walter "Pops" Washington immediately over his whiskey breakfast, as he listens half-patiently to the unrel…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 11, 2024
A LOST WEEKEND WORTH FINDING Â Â Â Â It helps if you fall in love with the set;Â even more if the set helps tell the story. For this tale of a louche, tender, disreputably memo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:38AM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2024
GANG LIFE, GRIEF AND GREATNESS    There is a very tense moment late on in the second half when Jacob Dunne, only just holding himself together, finally sits down in person…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2024
A RIOTOUS RUSSIAN SATIRE, FOR ALL TIMESÂ Â Â Â Â Â The local governor and councillors are posing for a photograph, more than satisfied with themselves and their genteelly co…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:05AM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2024
MODERN ECHOES OF A DYING FALL Â Â Â Â Â Years ago I came out of a dullish production in Yorkshire of Chekhov's last play, set very traditionally with samovar, parasols and big …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 1, 2024
A BOY BETRAYED Connor was 18 when he drowned in the bath with an epileptic seizure. It needn't have happened. He was under slipshod care, away from the family who loved him, in an NHS "A…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
A FEARFUL FUTUREÂ Â I am wary of futurist dystopias, but this is a real treat: intelligent sci-fi with serious thrills. Â As it opens, we are the 2050Â audience at the celebratio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:35AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2024
THE COURT AND THE BEDCHAMBER    Theatre will never tire of the Tudors, nor should it. From every new angle they offer a dramatic gift which never stops giving. Here's 153…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
MEN BEHAVING RIDICULOUSLY The lord of Navarre and three nobles have resolved to retreat and study for three years, eschewing female company: so even the princess suing for land has t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
MUD, MARSH, MONEY Â Â Â Now here's a bracing new way to do Dickens:Â avoid sets full of Victoriana by keeping the stage pretty much empty beneath a set of uneasily moving lighting…
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