Wednesday, June 29, 2022
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…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2022
IT HAS COME TO FRUITION. REJOICE! Â Â In a spirit of joyful pastiche, it's a Sweeney-Todd sound that opens the show:Â "`Prepare! To be made Aware! Of the most successful Labour Premi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
OF MAN'S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE….  Thorington is a new outdoor theatre, a beautiful bomb-crater amid tall sighing pine trees and beneath a great oak in Suffolk. It runs only one-night,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2022
VIA MEDIA ANGLICANA IN A NEW JERUSALEM    We're in a vicarage kitchen in a small West Country town, its incumbent dealing with parishioners, a resentful, weary wife and t…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 15, 2022
WOOLFING ROUND THE GENDER BEND A bit of a conversion experience for me, this. Disliked Woolf for years, Lighthouse and Waves and all, and therefore never read Orlando. Thought of it as a bit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:14AM[SHARE]A DARKER HAZE ON AMERICA'SÂ MEADOW Traditionally, audiences don't go to Oklahoma to be unsettled . On the other hand you don't go to the Young Vic to have your expectations cosily met by …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:18AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2022
TEENS FALLING, UNPROTECTED   An empty basement in a working class Kentucky neighbourhood in the mid 70s. An offstage adult world is preoccupied with unemployment, the main…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2022
A SCRUTABLE TAKE ON CHINA   This is a beguiling 70-minute solo show from the actor, writer, wandering maverick entrepreneur and China pundit Mark Kitto. He plays three pa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:24AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
VOICES FROM THE VALLEYS Â Â Â Â It is a curious feeling to be half charmed and half irritated by a production: one moment absorbed in a confrontation and engaged with a character, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2022
NURSING ACROSS CONTINENTS    Kayla Meikle, stalwart in Victorian dignity and Caribbean matriarchy, addresses us firmly at the start of Jackie Sibblies Drury's manic, sometimes…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2022
IN THE MIDDLE OF LIFE'S JOURNEY..THROW A PLATE OR TWO    Ah, middle age! Waists spreading outwards, options contracting, marriage all too familiar, parents getting older fast …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 28, 2022
SEXUAL ASSAULT , HARD LAW, AND AN ASTONING WEST END DEBUT   Forget the cold sadistic clotheshorse Vilanelle from Killing Eve. Actually, forget all Jodie Comer's screen awards. …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:09AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2022
HALF A CENTURY OF HAPPY MISCHIEF Full disclosure: I have been following this man around for the best part of 50 years. Went with my brother Mike to his first show, Housewife Superstar, at th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:48AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2022
NOW THE TWO PLAYS TOGETHER HENRY VI: REBELLION.    ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN    We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincou…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:52AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2022
ENGLAND IN FERMENT, AND SOME DANGEROUS WOMEN    We are in the 1450s, in a dangerous doldrum: Henry V of Agincourt is long dead, his stripling son married to pretty French…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2022
DO WE STILL LOVE ROOSTER?   So it's back, another St George's day before a west country village fair.  Twelve years on from Jez Butterworth's glorious shock-troop assault on…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 17, 2022
THE ORANGE MONSTER RIDES AGAIN  The first thing to say is what everyone has said: that Bertie Carvel as Donald Trump is magnificent. Eerily so, capturing not only the ex-Presiden…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2022
THE LOST BOYS OF THEATRE…   The tiny Actors' Centre is reborn under its new name, and since this play is set in what was a traditionally febrile, theatrical, subversively ar…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2022
 QUEER AS FOLK BY THE INFINITY POOL Jeremy O Harris is a much feted American playwright (a Tony for Slave Play) adept at drilling in to the moment: BLM, fashionable white guilt, sh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2022
SCIENCE, SIBLINGS, SOUND AND FURY   This is a satisfying play. To take a painting analogy, it satisfies not in the way that a perfect still-life vase might, but more like a Ka…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2022
CAMPING ON THE PLANKING At the Coliseum last autumn Gilbert and Sullivan's seagoing Savoy Opera was immense, with a huge revolving ship, Les Dennis as the first sea lord, a massive chorus an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:46PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2022
THE SHADOW OF A BEGINNING, ALABAMA 1936Â Â Â Â Forget, for the moment, both the fame and the the arguments over Harper Lee's classic novel:Â Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation is …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2022
WELCOME BACK, BITING SHARP AS EVER   In 2010 Bruce Norris' play wowed the Royal Court: this is a ten-year anniversary (well, plus two years lost to Covid) so forgive me for quotin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01PM[SHARE]THE ROUGH TOUGH BIRTH OF A CITY Â Â It is not often I resort to drawing in the notebook, but there it is: half an hour into the first part of David Hare's play about the city planner Ro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 23, 2022
A PLAY IS A PLAY IS A PLAY IS A WEDDING   With typical wit, the doughty little Jermyn has captured an intellectual-farcical oddity from New York complete with author-director …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2022
BRACING, BELTING, BENIGN    At the end of the evening the great diva, director and muse informs us that we too must sing. In a packed house, on the far side of a pandemic whi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:41AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2022
 LEARNING TO LIVE     Sometimes judging others harshly is a relishable guilty pleasure. In Ruby Thomas' wonderful 80-minute sequence of snapshots of family therapy,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2022
NOT A FINE ROMANCE Â Â Mamet plays are Marmite plays. You can applaud Speed the Plow, adore Wag the Dog on screen, and have a pleasurable argument with the opposite sex after a particu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2022
LOVE AS AN UNCOURTLY CONTESTÂ Â Â In 2009 " and again in Chichester 2018 " I missed Mike Bartlett's mischievous, half-earnest play about a gay man wrestling with his identity (and h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PM[SHARE]Friday, February 25, 2022
A VIGOROUS, HEARTSHAKING BRUSH OF OPPOSITES    Two artists in a studio:  the older one pale and floppily blond, languidly self-protective, drawling, preaching a cool…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2022
AN ORDINARY TRIANGLE TWISTS INTO NIGHTMARE Â Â Â Â The French novelist-turned-playwright Florian Zeller hit the British theatre scene a few years ago with two comedies: The LieÂ…
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