Saturday, July 16, 2016
THE NEW F-WORD (AND A FAIR FEW OF THE OLD ONE) You can trust Alistair Beaton to keep a cast learning last-minute lines. Here, just as grace-notes alongside the main theme, are jokes a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:58AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
ONCE UPON A TIME, WHICH COULD BE NOW… What a marvel is this Sondheim / Lapine classic musical: playful and deep, absurd and earthy, mocking and wise. And what a piece of luck…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]AYCKBOURN AT IT AGAIN..OR IS IT There's tennis without a ball (audience requested to do plock-plock sound effects on drums), a mini-farce, thriller and horror story also supported by …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 7, 2016
EIGHTY YEARS ON: Â MEN BEWARE WOMEN At a moment when both female leaders and would-be leaders are rampaging across the news – May, Merkel, Leadsom, Eagle – it is pleasan…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 28, 2016
FAITH . FAILURE AND THE GENIUS OF FRIEL A veil of rain surrounds the stage where three narrators will appear, each with their own version of a shared life "shabby, bleak, de…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:56PM[SHARE]Monday, June 27, 2016
ZELLER ZOOMS UP WEST, SHARP AS EVER The Menier, back in spring, brought grave delight and snorts of laughter with this zinger of a play by Florian Zeller; its rapid transfer up…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2016
IN RANSOME’S WAKE, A NORTH SEA TALE OF TOUGHER DAYS Eastern Angles having a cleaner mind than BBC Films, Titty gets to keeps her name in this faithful, ingenious, charmin…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
 VACATION,  EXPLOITATION,  ACCUSATION… I caught up a few days late with this (cheap seats aloft, excitingly closer to the rock-face in Hildegard Bechtler's Mediterranea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
REBELLION AND REALITY IN A SKEWEDÂ WORLD God bless a playwright you can't predict. Mike Bartlett's Charles III was founded on a pretty simple idea, and a frankly rather jejun…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 18, 2016
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES IS CHILLED, THRILLED, DAZZLED Ralph Fiennes is a menace. An utter menace. Other actors beware. He will cheat, stab and simply out-act you right off th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
A hairdo can be eloquent. When Bryan Dick as Willie Mossop first emerges quaking with humility from a trapdoor under old Hobson's shop, above a flapping leather apron and ragged shirt his di…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:29AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
STRINGS, SWINGS, A SOPRANOÂ SOARING In E.M.Forster's HOWARD'S END, the dreamy Helen Schlegel can't listen to Beethoven without imagining heroes, goblins, dancing elephants an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
A CLASSIC OF THE DESPERATE HEART "We're death to one another, you and I". The great cry from trapped, degraded macho Freddie, struggling to leave the desperate demanding Hester Collye…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2016
A DREAM AND A DISASTER: Â TRIBUTE WORTH PAYING Full disclosure: I really care about the Titanic story, love maritime history, have met one of the last living survivors of the…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:11PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
INNOCENCE, EXPERIENCE, MEMORY, TRAUMA Around a derelict room and abandoned trunk, Michael Crawford prowls, a tweedy, damaged old man at the heart of this low-key but unforgetta…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2016
THE RSC IN ROMPING MOODÂ Credulity and the con-artist, blinding-with-science and the selling of snake-oil, belong to all human eras. Ben Jonson's play is set in 1610, when a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
ADRIFT ON ANOTHER DEEP, BLUE, LONELY SEA… The Deep Blue Sea is Terence Rattigan's masterpiece (and about to play at the National Theatre). A young woman who has left her eminent…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 28, 2016
THE LAST BLASPHEMY TRIAL..AND ECHOES FOR TODAY It is a thousand pities that John Osborne is predominantly famous for the spitting spoilt-brat misogyny of Jimmy Porter in Look Back In …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2016
Kenneth Branagh's entire season has been built on one universal truth. From star to stage-sweeper, pack the production with the best talent and glorious things will inevitably follow. Why th…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Here's a sharp one, beautifully suited to what is not only a Referendum season but one in which both main political parties are more than likely to do mischief to their leaders. We can't rel…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:14PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
A HEART FOR BEAUTY, Â A ‘FIFTIES DREAM If Daniel Evans means to leave his acclaimed stewardship of Sheffield Theatre on a flood of tears, he's chosen the right producti…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 21, 2016
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES Â ON THE MENTAL Â WARD... You're clinically paranoid, you're black and you're bombarded on a daily basis with racism and when presented with an oran…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
Of Shakespeare's plays this is one of the least done and loved: there's disputed authorship of some sections, parts of the plot missing and replaced from another text. Sir Trevor Nunn takes …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
A CAUTIONARY TALE OF TRADE AND TERROR It is the modern terror that stalks our interconnected world. You're shut in a stone cell, alone and far from home, and in a chaotic incre…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
Director William Galinksy pays respect to the building's normal life by recruiting Lost in Translation Circus to evoke Ariel's magical powers: the stately Jane Leaney at ground level gets a …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:22AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2016
A DESERT HERO AND THE ROOTS OF TROUBLE.. One glory of Howard Brenton as a playwright is his ability to tease out, in very specific history plays (55 Days, Ann Boleyn, Dr Scroggy's War…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2016
AS FLIES TO WANTON CLOWNS… You don't often see Queen Gertrude in Hamlet played by a short bearded Spaniard in a rainbow unitard with flamenco frills. But this is the Brig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2016
SUPERNATURAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, YET YORKSHIRE ALL THE WAY… Of all the lessons theatre has taught us about the backwash of WW1, some of the most fascinating are in 1930's pla…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Suppose neuroscience could cure creeping brain deterioration by taking out whole networks of decaying neurons and replacing them with silicon, guaranteeing functionality, but wiping years of…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2016
A MODERN MASTERPIECE This is that finely balanced thing: a comedy built around a tragedy. Six summers ago, a newfledged critic for the Times, I wrote about its British premiere: "Bruc…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:56PM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
ROLLING ALONG, CARRYING ALL BEFORE IT Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly – you gotta laugh and you gotta cry. And believe me, you won't help loving this stunning, flawless, celebr…
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