Wednesday, November 24, 2021
2021 BRITAIN IN A STATELY STORMY NUTSHELL   Just what we needed, I thought! A good old state-of-the-nation black comedy with a semi-derelict Manor in a howling storm, the sea …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
SIX CENTURIES ON, IT'S GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S ROUND     Zadie Smith humbly refers to her first play as more like "homework" than the novelist's usual dread of a blank page. Ch…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:19AM[SHARE]A CHEKHQUERED RESPONSEÂ Â Â Â Â Vanya and Sonia are siblings " though she is adopted " and have led dull dutiful lives in a remote country house surrounded by cherry trees and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2021
      ROLL UP! IT'S BACK! Ah, Christmastime!   There's nothing like a buff chap in spike-heeled patent thigh-boots somersaulting in the air to make you feel festive.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]A HUMAN ZOO OF ALPHA MEN There are good plays to be written about white male privilege, and about modern capitalism and its relentless expectation of self-promotion and constant advancement …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 14, 2021
THEY DO NOT GROW OLD AS WE IN THE STALLS GROW OLD    May as well tell you, last week I had the ultimate pensioner experience, and it was a blast.  A midweek, senior-price…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:07PM[SHARE]Friday, November 12, 2021
TWENTY YEARS AGO, ANOTHER HEALTH CRISIS CHANGED LIVES   Just before the pandemic closed everything down, Emily Jenkins' deft two-hander won a top Edinburgh Fringe award and many p…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
FACE THE MUSIC, AND DANCE!     This was a new outing for me.  I have long loved the Watermill some miles west, but I hadn't really registered the Mill at Sonning w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Reprise: they're still at it, as good as ever    If I were a PR for the Society of London Theatres, I would get these six performers together for a photocall with the five fro…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:15AM[SHARE]Monday, November 8, 2021
 THE MYTH AND TERROR THAT CHILDREN KNOW      Sometimes a violent rip occurs in the thin veil of materialism ,commonsense, morality and law.  Children kn…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:28AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? FOR A MILLION BUCKS? Here's a struggling young couple (well, not that young, Â both on second marriages and he has a daughter going to college). Along comes a billion…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2021
UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE A HOOT      It had to happen: someone had to notice that in the comfortable upper-middle and aristocratic worlds of Jane Austen's novel, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 23, 2021
NOT A REVIEW BUT SOME JOLLY NEWS Not a review, because this was the first performance of a modest weekend testing the water: a script-in-hand, moustaches-falling-off, fresh-o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 19, 2021
 THE HEART STILL FEELS THE BEAT     Everything Bob Marley sings lifts the heart, instructing it to rise and triumph and unite in joy: lively-up yourself!  …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]THE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL: scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry  There was a spate of criticism when Richard Norton Taylor's dramatisation of the Grenfell Inquiry was announced, despite it…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 16, 2021
 THE RACE WHERE NOBODY WINS    This feels like a howl of baffled frustration, from a millennial generation ( writer and director, and all four characters) unable to deal wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2021
THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH.    Almeida, N1 THE SCOTTISH PLAY WE NEEDED  Say what you like about star-casting and auteur-ish directors messing with Shakespeare, but sometimes …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:59PM[SHARE]AN OLD STORY OF YOUNG MEN Â Â Balliol College Oxford, 1910. Confident young Etonians are hurling crockery downstairs, yelling "I'm a bastard, I'm a bastard, rather be a bastard than a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
EAST IS EAST, IN EAST ANGLIAÂ Â Â Â Shamser Sinha " who is on the National Theatre Connections project " relished the idea of writing a play about a South-Asian working-class fami…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:32PM[SHARE]Friday, October 8, 2021
AN EVER-MORPHING PROTEAN TEXT…RENEWS AGAIN BEFORE OUR EYES    Every Hamlet should give us something new. The play is a philosophical and psychological labyrinth, its jew…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 6, 2021
 FOUR WIVES LATER, MANTEL AND MILES COMPLETE THE JOURNEY It was rising eight years ago that the first two parts of Hilary Mantel's majestic Wolf Hall trilogy came to the stage…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:20PM[SHARE]NOT QUITE A REVIEW, MORE A TRIP DOWN A SIDE ALLEY I was on the early train up when news came that poor old Southwark had ,for the second time, been forced by illness to cancel two performanc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 3, 2021
WHO NEEDS PANTO? A CLASSY FLIGHT OF FANCY ON THE ROAD    This show, which I had the joy of seeing in a packed Theatre Royal Norwich alongside many small thrilled children, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 30, 2021
THE LAST GREAT PLAGUE Â Â Â Â If you lived as an adult alongside the onset of AIDS forty years ago you don't forget it: the lost friends and workmates , the rumours of ignorance w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:13PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
A POCKET JEWEL    We always knew that among the first sproutings of recovery would be a few Alan Ayckbourns, popping up as welcome as snowdrops. I am always fond of this early…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 21, 2021
AN ARCATI MORE THAN MEDIUM I once took a student nephew to this Coward masterpiece, and the thrill for me was that he didn't know there was a g"". Until there was. Therefore for a rising gen…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 16, 2021
A SHAGGY-DOG TALE IN CRUMBLING SPLENDOUR     Sometimes the building upstages the play. I had not explored the late-Victorian, half-restored glory of the Coronet before,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 15, 2021
AN EPIC OF PASSION AND PERFORMANCE     Here is life, history, theatrical passion, great migrations and lyrical romance in the rain. Here's anger and humour and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22AM[SHARE]Friday, September 10, 2021
A HISTORIC HIT BACK, BETTER THAN EVER   This portrait of three bickering sisters, trading memories and revelations in the days before a mother's funeral in a snowy Yorkshire …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 9, 2021
LOVE, GRIEF, AND A BRAD PITT ALBATROSS  With loving detail, right down a glimpse of coat-racks beyond the far door, the downstairs studio serving Tom Wells' new play has become a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
ICE WORK IF YOU GET IT…     Phew. The Broadway-rooted, Disneylicious, long-awaited red-carpet premiere night featured (of course) an ice -blue carpet. And the th…
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