A MODEST AND REMORSEFUL SELF-REBUKE     There's a curious outbreak of reparations going on. The Old Vic, which binned Into the Woods in outrage at Terry Gilliam's reported…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48PM[SHARE]A GOTHIC SORROWÂ IN OLD BOSTON When you say you're off to a Suffolk village hall to see a tiny company "Â best known for its mini-pantos " doing a dramatised tribute to Edgar Allan Poe,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:23AM[SHARE]AMBITION , DISGRACE, RUIN, WOMEN Heavy footfalls pace overhead, enervating, raising anxiety. Anna Fleischle's galleried grey set is half Scandi-minimo-chic, half penitentiary. Downstairs…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:44AM[SHARE]GLORIOUS AS EVER Â Â Â Â Millions know it by now, but in case like my enthralled companions last night you aren't among them, Â grant me a moment or skip the the penultimate p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AM[SHARE]WISHFUL DELUSIONS IN A MIDDLE AGED DOLDRUM Susan finds herself in mid-life with a dull clerical husband (Nigel Lindsay really enjoying it) , obsessed with his dreary parish history pamph…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:23PM[SHARE]LORD, WHAT FOOLS WE LIBERALS BE…    In a beanbagged, bright-coloured primary school in Berkeley, California, its executive committee of five seek consensus over reclassifyin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:37PM[SHARE]REFINED AND FEATHER-DUSTED: CRUELTY IN THE SUBURBS We are in a suburban drawing-room in 1926, which some characters will still call the "parlour". Near the front, close enough to…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:03AM[SHARE]A CENTURY SURVIVED Â Â It is no bad week to be contemplating the Jewish custom of sitting shiva:Â spending seven days on a hard wooden bench when "you laugh, you cry, you argue" in t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PM[SHARE]EVEN A SNAIL WILL REACH ITS HOME Â Â Â Â Â That's a Nigerian saying, apparently. Â But shiny though the shell is, Â Richard Eyre's play becomes a frustrating stew of idea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:39PM[SHARE]SAYERS, SAYING IT FOR WORKING WOMEN Â Here's a treat:Â first half in Venice (with a glorious Canaletto backdrop) and the second, after some elegant Jermyn set-changing, in a London pla…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:50PM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS SOME INTERESTING THREADS SLIGHTLY UNRAVELLED AT GRIMEBORN Fringe opera festivals sometimes give us a chance to see new work in progress " i.e. unfinishe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:15AM[SHARE]A SPIKY AND SPECTACULAR DELIGHT       Humanity in every century has needed to plunge into the dark forests, questing or fleeing, finding wonders or wolves:…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PM[SHARE]IT'S BACK: A NEW DIRECTION HOME   This humbly immense, uniquely created show threw me for a loop five summers ago. It's back on tour, via Oliviers and Broadway awards,  wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:47AM[SHARE]GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS SWEPT UP IN THE MAGIC, THE MUSIC AND THE META Opera Alegria's vivacious foray into Mozart's Magic Flute for Grimeborn takes its inspiration from the thea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00AM[SHARE]VOICES FROM THE GRAVE AND THE CELLAR, UNIGNORABLE     Timely, enterprising, emotionally shattering, politically shaming.  These two plays were both  both first born at …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]CARRY ON. OR, TO PUT IT ANOTHER WAY, KEEP MESSIN' ABOUT… Â Â My first concern was, will they dare give us the sadness? Kenneth Williams was a comic marvel self-created, a versatile a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:40PM[SHARE]GLITTER AND HARD GRAFT     A basement hung with glitter strings, a small moody band with earthy bass, a bar: few better places to revel in torch songs, deep-dug anthems an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PM[SHARE]MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.    Lyttelton, SE1 SHAKESPEARE IN THE SWING AGE    A star danced, and under it was Simon Godwin's joyful, 1930s Riviera production born. Qui…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:47PM[SHARE] STARRY SISTERHOOD IN OLD VIENNA    Identical twin girls, separated at birth in their parents divorce, meet at summer camp and resolve to swop places.  Remember  "The Pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]THE SCOTTISH PLAY ON ANCIENT TURF Â Â "This castle hath a pleasant seat.." Â Indeed it does:Â Red Rose Chain's traditional outdoor show now lives alongside the mysterious mounds …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]101 DALMATIANS    Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park NW1 BARKING IN THE PARK    Wooof!  The OAT's new show, bounding and cavorting along under the di…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:18AM[SHARE]CHARLIE IS , ONCE AGAIN, OUR DANCING DARLING…     Foiled by heatwave and trains, I made it six days later to the summer's highlight, the glorious absurdity of this wicke…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:35AM[SHARE]   Twice lately, under tall oaks and pines on what is becoming known as Suffolk's mini-Minack, I have encountered touring opera companies doing wonderfully, relaxedly, profess…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:21AM[SHARE]SCRAMBLE!  CHOCKS AWAY!   Who knew that Caroline Quentin could achieve (almost) the splits, while strumming a ukulele? Or that that Richard Bean and Chris Oliver " who a de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01PM[SHARE]DECK-LICIOUS, DELOVELY, SAILING BACK IN STYLE A year on, and after a partly recast tour, SS America drops anchor back in the Barbican and in style. Actually feels even better than before…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45AM[SHARE] MOTHER RUSSIA AND ITS MEN   Here's a fresh history play: confrontational , shocking, classic in its focus on vast flawed characters and pretty close to documented " and very…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:49PM[SHARE]MOB JUSTICE, NO JUSTICE    There are women who, seeing a friend in an almost-good outfit, cannot help reaching out: adjusting a belt , removing an ill-judged frill, suggesting…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:42AM[SHARE]STEP BACK TO THE SIXTIES SIMPLICITIES…  Once again , off to this most enticing dinner-theatre embedded in a historic treasure, its big real watermill whirling away in the bar and t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:35PM[SHARE]The review below is from its Chichester opening a couple of weeks back. So just a note on seeing it again: something that could well become a habit, because it really is rich snd fine. It wo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11PM[SHARE]THE BOTTLED SPIDER, HEDGEHOG, ABORTIVE ROOTING HOG, IS BACK…MAGNIFICENTLY Â Â Â Â Â The winter of discontent made glorious summer is ushered in with a wild conga round the s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:00PM[SHARE]ALL GREEK TO US, AND TOPICAL WITH IT Fascinating to see how, despite many light tempting fatuities and sentimentalities onscreen and onstage, and the countercurrents of self conscious experi…
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