Monday, September 1, 2014
THE STAFF OF LIFE: ORDINARY LIVES. A shift in a Yorkshire mass-production bread factory in the 1970's: Richard Bean , at eighteen, was there. In that perceptive, new-fledged moment of…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:34AM[SHARE]Friday, August 29, 2014
NOT SO PEACEFUL IN THE PACIFIC It is not often that the Chichester front-row is questioned about its sexual practices by merry brown girls extolling carefree Tahitian sex. "Our…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2014
BLISS? OH YES IT IS Here's a 1924 creation: swooping and frivolously asymmetric as a drop-waisted flapper-dress, flashily well-crafted as a Deco windowpane. Its first criti…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 26, 2014
ESSEX GIRL COMES OF AGE I rather like Denise van Outen. A trouper, a trained musical-theatre talent who had to make it (and she did, triumphing in CHICAGO here and on Broadway)…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2014
A NEW BLONDE BOMBSHELL STORMS THE STAGE Summer seaside rep is not dead. Frinton Summer Theatre is marking its 75th year, and it's worth celebrating , even though I caught the l…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 23, 2014
ORWELL GOES GANGLAND Far out in DLR-land, in the wilderness of Urban Regeneration that is the new East-of-East End, Newham City Farm has been since 1977 a place where you can, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2014
A WINNING ROLL OF THE DICE FOR CHICHESTER There is a sort of generosity, an overflowing vigour, when Chichester's great three-sided arena does the classic musicals. They can't …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:48PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2014
WARM, WONDERFUL, WISE..THE YEAR’S BEST NEW MUSICAL Strewth! What a wonderful show.  In this trade we are cautious of superlatives, lest omething even better comes …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:42PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2014
OUT IN THE FOREST, SOMETHING STIRS… The slope beneath the great chestnut trees makes a perfect arena: on tiered seating or below it on chairs, the audience are held b…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 14, 2014
GUEST REVIEWER PHILIP FISHER ON RAVENHILL’S EXTENDED HIT It is amazing how quickly contemporary events become history, and recent history becomes the distant past. Mark R…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
BUCKSKINS, BURLESQUERS, BLISS Yee-ha! Calamity Jane strides in, beefy in buckskins, more beltingly, braggingly alive than any man in the room. Or, indeed, any room. She's been ridin' …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:58AM[SHARE]GUEST CRITIC PHILIP FISHER IS AWED BY GEORGIAN ORWELL.. Anyone expecting a children’s show from Guy Masterson's adaptation of Orwell could be in for a shock. This deeply …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2014
WHO'S AFRAID OF THE BIG BAD WOLF? I thought it was a children’s walk-through amusement, something to keep the little bleeders willing to accompany parents to the serious Traverse plays…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]A CREEPY GENTLENESSÂ I found this maverick pair, “Box Tale Soup” Â out in the boondocks last fringe: Antonia Christophers and noel Byrne, creating a wonderful Northanger Ab…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2014
THE BONUS BOYS UNMASKED… Jamie Griffiths is not a quantitative analyst in the City. He's an actor and playwright. Not a "quant", a risk-taking star of the city betting an…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:35AM[SHARE]THE GRUMPY OLD ROMAN RETURNS… Terrible times we live in. A decadent civilization, a crumbling empire, hypocrites in power, toadies fawning on the rich, women strangers to chastity and …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37AM[SHARE]FRANKIE GOES TO EXTREMES… Good to know (and I mean this seriously) that Edinburgh comedy is not cowed by squeamish PC seriousness. If you can't laugh at everything, you probably…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:36AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2014
WHO SAYS THE ROM-COM IS DEAD? IT JUST GOT WITTY.. Last year I purred over Richard Marsh's "Dirty Great Love Story", a blissfully clever, likeable, honest miniature rom-com,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AM[SHARE]OH DEAR Sometimes you have to check out the Fringe regulars, especially when tagged with “sizzling” by the Scottish Express and “well worth getting out of bed for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT AIDS… Kevin Elyot's 1994 play is pretty much perfect: a twist on the traditional drawing-room, single-set comedy of sex, love, friendship and death. Dir…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AM[SHARE]FUTURE HORRORS OF A RISING BORIS?  Here is a cheerful, dishevelled Alan Cox as Max Newman, London Mayor turned Tory MP. He's a seemingly bumbling, teddybearish, pratfalling, polysylla…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 6, 2014
COMRADES AND CANNIBALS “It's not just seven naked men eating each other” must be the most startling aplogia yet for a play; but the author David Ian Lee and the director J…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:53PM[SHARE]STICK, BAGGY PANTS AND BOWLER: Â POLITICS AND EXILE My Granny met young Charlie Chaplin once: he was at her father’s Theatre Royal Nottingham with Fred Karno’s M…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:07AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 5, 2014
SEX , SEDUCTION AND STALE MARRIAGE… Middle-aged man in a hotel bar, having a drink after work; miniskirted girl hits on him, shameless, provocative – "do you w…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:25PM[SHARE]BEFORE THE REAL DEBATE…TRY THIS… Every afternoon at ten past five, a kilted 24-year-old woman in blue-and-white facepaint emerges from the leprous tenement of the Underbelly on a…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2014
THE COMMEMORATION Posted, 0100, 5/08/2014 "Terrible old uniforms, no proper webbing, even. Off to Destination Unknown" says the private soldier, remembering how he threw a post…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:04PM[SHARE]1924Â PREPPY KILLERS RIDE AGAIN Kevin Spacey thrilled us all right as the lawyer Clarence Darrow (at the Old Vic, reviewed here). One of his great triumphs was saving two yo…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 3, 2014
THE BEAST WITHIN "Our enemies are not the Germans, nor the Russians or the French. The common enemy of us all is the beast within". As Syria, Ukraine, Israel and Palestine burn and th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:49PM[SHARE]BRACING, BRILLIANT AND NECESSARY… Mark Thomas is the most intelligent of the modern leftist standups: impassioned, a practical activist emotionally driven but capable of rich mockery o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
DELUSION AND DESIRE IN THE DEEP SOUTH If you are on one of the high back-row benches there is a bar to rest your feet on. It can create for a moment the illusion of being on a …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:48PM[SHARE]Monday, July 28, 2014
GERSHWIN'S GRANDEUR:Â Â Â SPLENDOUR ON THE GRASS From the moment Nicola Hughes wanders onto the stage in the overture, pulls on a strident red dress, sniffs her "happy dust" an…
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