Sunday, June 22, 2014
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES THE FIRST TWO PLAYS IN THE RSC'S "MIDSUMMER MISCHIEF" SERIES: PROGRAMME A THE ANT AND THE CICADA – Timberlake Wertenbaker Zoe is an artist, living …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:30AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
IN WHICH OUR GUEST REVIEWER JOHN PETER DOES NOT HAVE A HAPPY NIGHT OUT Tim Crouch has given us a play which is not a play. Â Â It has no narrative: it does not give you a story; i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:49AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 18, 2014
BILL NIGHY BACK ONSTAGE: MORE THAN WELCOME Few actors are more instantly recognizable than Bill Nighy, yet his gift is to deploy in faithful service of each distinct part his i…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2014
BY ‘ECK, IT’S BRIGHOUSE ROCKING INTO THE ‘SIXTIES… Never underestimate a young woman in a neat blue dress from anywhere North of Watford. Especially one called…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 15, 2014
BRAVO BRAVISSIMO!   OPERA-ROM-COM FROM THE HEART I knew I was going to like this operatico-jukebox backstage rom-com (a whole new genre) when Jenny Stafford – as tremb…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:40PM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2014
BEAUTIFUL BODIES, JOY IN ACTION In circus tradition feats of acrobatic daring and balance are hyped up by a ringmaster – drumrolls, pleas to keep totally quiet lest you distract…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
BART SIMPSON'S LEGEND SURVIVES THE APOCALYPSE: DO WE CARE? A child of the Cold War, I have read post-apocalyptic fiction all my life: from John Wyndham and Kuttner to Nevil Shu…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:51PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 11, 2014
A KNIGHTSBRIDGE REDEMPTION…. Quotes from critics are always helpful. This one has "Drop dead funny and informative" on its flyer: not from a Spencer or Billington but signed "In…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
NUMRICH AS A NIHILIST HOUSEGUEST… It is a universally recognizable moment: an idealistic student home for summer with revolutionary theories and an adored, even more revolutionary, fla…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59PM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
THE PIG TAKES ON THE PROVINCES, AND WINS Â Â Â I reviewed the West End premiere of this new Stiles-and-Drew musical, directed by Richard Eyre and passionately backed by Camer…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 7, 2014
POKER AND PATERNITY: A WOMAN QUIETLY DESPAIRS… Poker, like good drama, requires an ability to transmit or conceal "tells": moments of facial or body language revealing or hiding…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:38AM[SHARE]Guest reviewer  LUKE JONES  appreciates our Dawnie… At the very beginning, with a large clock face ticking behind her, Dawn French describes what we are about to see as a slice…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:38AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2014
A HIGH PRESSURE TRIUMPH , AND A TRIBUTE It happened seventy years ago so we know the outcome. D-Day was the biggest amphibious invasion in history – 156,000 men, 6939 vessels, 11590 pl…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2014
GORDON CONTRA MUNDUM…A BLEAK IMAGINING The focus groups, mourns this briefest of Prime Ministers, always come up with the same words about him. "Strong" and "Solid" are fine. "S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
ONE GREAT PERFORMER'S TRIBUTE TO ANOTHER The main causes of crime, said the famous American defence lawyer Darrow, are "Poverty, ignorance, hard luck and, generally, youth". A century later,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
A WICKED WIT, WITH HEART ON SLEEVE : LIPPA TAKES LONDON Here is Summer Strallen as Cinderella, ripping off her rags and scorning the ballgown for a dominatrix PVC corset and whip. Her…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
DEATH , TRUTH, TORMENT : THE REBIRTH OF A NATION "What" asks the calm academic , "should our attitude be to people who have committed atrocities?". From Belfast to the Balkans, Sy…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:45PM[SHARE]Friday, May 30, 2014
FRESHER THAN EVER, AN ANCIENT LOVE UNDER THE SKY Eve Best is an irresistible Cleopatra for today: no slinky seductive exoticism but a fresh, joyful, larky sensuality as well-expressed in…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 28, 2014
KATHLEEN TURNER BLOWS INTO TOWN, AN AUTHENTIC HURRICANE Under a tangle of brushwood and a ratty telegraph pole, Maude's trailer-park home is full of junk from dumpsters and charity sh…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
REDEMPTION OF A HOLLYWOOD HUNK… The tiny am-dram theatre is threatened with redevelopment: only celebrity casting can save it. Jefferson Steel – fading star of Ultimate Finality …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2014
POWERFUL, EMOTIONAL, CHALLENGING -Â GUEST REVIEWER Â Â JOHN PETERÂ WRITES:Â Do you remember Vietnam? Â Â How, in the sixties and seventies, we wondered whether the communis…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 20, 2014
WELL, SWIPE ME DOWN THE OLD KENT ROAD, ME OLD CHINA… Would you Adam and Eve it: the Joan Littlewood centenary restores to her sacred stage not only Oh What A Lovely War but this celebr…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:53PM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
AN EXTRAORDINARY ALICE IN THE DARK HEART OF WAR In a cellar, sheltering from bombs in 1915, a wispily grey, middle-aged Alice Liddell roams through an Edwardian clutter of old chests,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
INTIMATE, HUMBLE: THE BEST COMMEMORATION The title comes from Philip Larkin's poem MCMXIV, evoking the rural England of 1914 as young men queued, as if at a football match, to enlist.…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 14, 2014
POSTWAR, COLD-WAR, ANGRY AND RESTLESS Ever since our manufacturing and metal-bashing trades eroded, we have seen a sentimentality about old industrial Britain: the glory days when…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
SEW, STRUT, SWIRL AND SHAKE IT ! When this production ran at Chichester, I found myself forced to invent new words to describe Stephen Mear's marvellously varied choreography as the SleepTit…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2014
IMBRUGLIA IN A FINE IMBROGLIO When two old schoolfriends meet after eleven years, naturally they sing the old school song. "Girls of St Gert's! Pure in your body, healthy in mind.." When two…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
AN HOUR OF SHOCKING BRILLIANCE AND ARTISAN OBSCENITY Phoebe Waller-Bridge's extraordinary self-written monologue performance won awards in Edinburgh, the Offies, The Stage and the Cri…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2014
SKITTERBANG ISLAND Little Angel, N1 Is three-to-five years old too young for opera? Not really. Small children sing their world all the time, chant their feelings freely. As for puppe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
MINXY MURDEROUSNESS AMID THE WAVING CATS.. Polly Findlay, who gave us the National Theatre's tough Antigone and Derren Brown's Svengali, has great fun with RSC directorial debut: heav…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PM[SHARE]IT’S TRUE! A FISH DOES NEED A BICYCLE! We're in a cavernous Victorian swimming-pool, a dreamworld where the waterfall is made of bath-plug chains. Then we're in a sea-green underwater …
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