Wednesday, November 1, 2023
SCIENCE FANTASY AND HONEST EMOTION     I don't normally indulge in first-night anecdotes, but feel I should mention that in the big wedding scene Joanna Woodward tossed he…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:23PM[SHARE]AGATHA STRIKES AGAIN Â Â Â This is Extreme Agatha Christie, her most preposterous (and bestselling) plot and one of the most murderously morbid (NB the final moments of the staging …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 31, 2023
MEMORIES OF A MAVERICK Â It's an immersive show, in that you buy a drink in the cramped saloon of the old pub on Greek Street, find a corner, and ideally fall into conversation with anoth…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:20PM[SHARE]WHILE THE REAL ONE RUNS…. With the Covid Inquiry surging along in a froth of accusations and curses and scandalous Whatsappery, it was hard to resist a hasty day-return to Harry Davies' de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:12PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
THE FIRST WITCHFINDER, NOT WITHOUT LESSONS FOR TODAY     This is remarkable, Joanna Carrick's best and deepest play yet,  following her acclaimed Reformation trilogy.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
A MOTHER'S LIFE, A SON'S PERSPECTIVE Sometimes it is almost useful to be a day late (sorry, tied up yesterday) because it gives a chance to read other people's take on the play you saw.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:25AM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2023
GENIUS, REALPOLITIK, RELIGION    In days of horrifying conflict there was quite a jolt in a confrontation between Stephen Hagan's resplendently silver-suited Frederick the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 17, 2023
PROPERTY RAGE FROM ANOTHER AGE Here's a curiosity from 1972; an early , rarely-seen Caryl Churchill play revived with dashing elegance under the Jermyn's Artistic director Stella Pow…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:18PM[SHARE]GRIM AND PURE BY THE DOCKS, PITY AND POETRY   The lawyer Alfieri, prowling in memory round Arthur Miller's stark tale of immigrant longshoremen on the 1940's Brooklyn docks, s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
A LEARNED FRIEND REMEMBERED   Rumpole of the Bailey is occasional comfort-viewing in our house, thanks to Talkingpicturestv repeats. John Mortimer's portrait of the old barri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2023
ITS THE PICTURES THAT GOT SMALL? Not if Lloyd can help it. It felt strange to see this in the bowels of a gala-night Savoy, only a week or two after our local arts centre showed the …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2023
IT'S BACK, THROUGH THE NURSERY WINDOW, STILL FLYING    Just to reassure you: this offshoot from Mischief, the team who brought you the perennial Play-goes-wrong, is still…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 28, 2023
 THE TWIG WHO BRANCHED OUT    We get up to speed on the period, with irresistible tracks from the golden age of pop: Beatles, Stones, Animals.  Onstage is a photograph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2023
A TANKFUL OF EMOTIONAL TENTACLES    Where better than Hampstead to watch the interplay of cutting-edge science with emotional intensity and philosophical unanswerables? Upsta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:38AM[SHARE]Friday, September 22, 2023
PHONETICALLY PHABULOUS Â Â Â Last time Bertie Carvel was on this stage it was as Donald Trump. Now our best shapeshifter is Henry Higgins: capering, swearing, somewhere on the far si…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
THE INFECTION OF WICKEDNESS Â Â Â Â Â The history of the Lodz ghetto in Poland is a part of the Holocaust story worth foxusing on, ot least because the Jewish population there …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:04PM[SHARE]LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I WENT TO MANDERLEYÂ YET AGAIN… Â Â Â Daphne Du Maurier's story is almost a national myth, what with the grand house on the towering cliffs, the terrifying …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2023
LOSS AND GRIEF IN A SILICON WORLD     In a bleak grey minimalist space Merril (a restlessly gamine Myanna Buring) is grieving her much younger sister Angie, who has v…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2023
INDIA 1948 , LESSONS FOR ALL TIME   This show is a happy return, especially if like me you missed it last summer: the National at its best, a modern epic and warning directed…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 14, 2023
SHOOT, SCORE, SPARK!  This is the year of football plays. First Dear England at the Olivier, now the women's turn on another stage, out East a bit. Here's another neon str…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 13, 2023
A SCANDALOUS WOMAN IN A STORMY WORLD    A distant thunder of naval artillery: against elegant panelled walls in Naples a bundled matron  in a bonnet watches her flighty daugh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 10, 2023
FOUR MORE AWFUL PEOPLE, HURRAH Â Â Â Â Â Two four-handers about awful middle class behaviour in a week:Â just what the irritable heatwave needed. Â This, which I caught i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2023
WHEN THE VIRTUE-SIGNALS DRIVE YOU OFF THE RAILS Â Â Â In a boutique restaurant going bankrupt, Jacq and Kas nervously prepare to admit it to their main investor Tobin and his wife Ad…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:05AM[SHARE]Friday, August 18, 2023
 HAVING THE BEST OF TIMES IN THE PARK   Even in familiar classics you can never predict which anthem will set you dabbing your eye.  You might expect it at Albin's anguish…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 17, 2023
DOPAMINE , DRUGS, DANGER, DOCTORS  This intriguing play by Lucy Prebble aired in 2012 in the intimate Cottesloe space , with Billie Piper and Jonjo o'Neill as paid subjects in an ant…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 16, 2023
FORTY YEARS ON, FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES Â Â This is a properly interesting RSC commission: a history play about the Falklands invasion by Argentina in 1982 and the British task force whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2023
SORROW AND SUSPICION Â Â This one had me from the first few minutes: another Jermyn find. Â A new play, whose young actor- writer Abigail Hood and director Kevin Tomlinson both perf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:57AM[SHARE]Friday, August 4, 2023
A CORONATION YEAR ROMP ANYWAY      A neighbour in the stalls confided that she sees a lot of West End theatre but avoids "the more highbrow sort". She was in the right…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]THREE GENERATIONS UNDER SMARTPHONE RULEÂ Bit late to this one, and it had mixed reviews " largely I suspect because Michael Wynne's play, a two hour four-hander all-woman slice of life in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 1, 2023
NEVER MIND THE MOUNTAIN, OVER THE ROAD CHICHESTER ROCKS   Now here's a perfect gig for us 1970's leftovers, though I suspect today's young rockers will also love the shiny le…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 30, 2023
OLD SOHO SPEAKS AGAIN, AND WISELY  Of all the places you'd expect to see Quentin Crisp " even as a ghost or tribute " one of the least likely is a wooded amphitheatre in Suffolk at d…
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