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You can’t choose your family: ‘The Homecoming’ at the Young Vic
Saturday 23rd December 2023, matinee Once, when directing one of his own plays, Pinter is famously supposed to have answered an actor’s question with the response ‘It is unclear what the author intended here’. As we come close to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Harold Pinter, Jared Harris, Joe Cole, The Homecoming, Young Vic
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A Mirror at the Almeida Theatre
Saturday 16th September 2023, matinee The question at the heart of ‘The Mirror’, currently in its last week at the Almeida, seems to be, how can you write a play about politics and art whilst remaining artistic and not becoming … Continue reading
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Tagged A Mirror, Almeida, Geoffrey Streatfeild, Jeremy Herrin, Jonny Lee Miller, Micheal Ward, Sam Holcroft, Tanya Reynolds
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From Puppet to Puppetmaster: Patriots at the Noel Coward Theatre
Saturday 8th July 2023, matinee We were intrigued at the thought of this new play by Peter Morgan. Previously known for deconstructing British politics and power with TV dramas such as his trilogy about Tony Blair, and of course ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged Josef Davies, Luke Thallon, Patriots, Peter Morgan, Reviews, Tom Hollander, Will Keen
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Back of the Net! Dear England at the National Theatre
Saturday 1st July 2023, matinee As any football fan will already know, the England football team is a highly appropriate subject for drama: the team seemed to be on a emotional rollercoaster of lofty fantasy followed by crushing disappointment, usually … Continue reading
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Tagged Dear England, Gareth Southgate, Gina mckee, James Graham, Joseph Fiennes, National Theatre, Rupert Goold
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Method in their madness: Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Saturday 24th June 2023, matinee Being big fans of Tom Basden, we were pretty excited when we saw that he was going to be adapting Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Dario Fo and Fraca Rame’s play, originally premiered in 1970. … Continue reading
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Tagged Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Daniel Rigby, Dario Fo, Tom Andrews, Tom Basden, Tony Gardner
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Reader we loved them: Jane Eyre The Musical at the Royal Academy of Music
Sunday 18th June 2023 The Royal Academy of Music are doing a great job educating the next generation of Musical Theatre performers. And we are also grateful to them for giving us an education. The range of material they have … Continue reading
Corpse? I nearly died: a rehearsed reading of Steven Berkoff’s new play Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Sunday 11th June 2023 Jean-Paul Satre claimed that ‘hell is other people’. In this rehearsed reading for one night only Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Steven Berkoff has taken it up a notch with his depiction of purgatory as an eternity … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Whitehead, Corpse, George Telfer, Glen McCready, review, Steven Berkoff, Theatre, Timothy Bentinck, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
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Egos, insecurities and narcissism: The Motive and the Cue at the National Theatre
20th May 2023, matinee The Motive and the Cue gives us a rare opportunity to find out what happens when one of the biggest film stars in the world decides to take a pay cut to perform one of Shakespeare’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamlet, Jack Thorne, Johnny Flynn, Mark Gatiss, Reviews, Sam Mendes, The Motive and the Cue, Tuppence Middleton
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See it safely: Has caution made theatre an endangered species?
PROLOGUE We began drafting the post below some time ago, at a time when we were wondering if we would ever blog about theatre again. Our last theatre visit took place a week before theatres were closed in March 2020, … Continue reading
Art to Enchant: The Tempest at Jermyn Street Theatre
Saturday 14th March 2020, matinee Jermyn Street Theatre, fast becoming our favourite West End Theatre, has given us the perfect chance to see Michael Pennington close up, and tick off another Shakespeare play – The Tempest. And all in a … Continue reading
Boiling Point: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Saturday 26th October 2019, matineé We’ve been on the look-out for a revival of Peter Nichols’ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, and when we saw that Toby Stephens and Claire Skinner were going to be starring in … Continue reading
A chip on his shoulder? Shackleton’s Carpenter at Jermyn Street Theatre
Saturday 3rd August 2019, matinee The story of Shackleton’s heroic failure on the ice floes of the Antarctic seems to have an endless fascination. What could capture the imagination better than an expedition which set out to be the first … Continue reading
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Tagged Gail Louw, Harry McNish, Jermyn Street Theatre, Malcolm Rennie, Shackleton's Carpenter
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A universal message from The Starry Messenger at Wyndham’s Theatre
The Starry Messenger Thursday 16th May 2019 We’ve been waiting a long time to see Matthew Broderick on the London stage. For a while, there was talk that he might come over with the Broadway production of the musical version … Continue reading
An Evening at the melancholy manor: Rosmersholm at the Duke of York’s
Saturday 27th May 2019, evening It’s been a while since we were tempted into the West End for Kenneth Branagh’s takeover of the Garrick Theatre. The combination of Tom Burke and Hayley Atwell in a new Ibsen play (new to … Continue reading
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Tagged Giles Terera, Hayley Atwell, Ian Rickson, Ibsen, Peter Wight, review, Rosmersholm, Tom Burke
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Driving Miss Olive: Little Miss Sunshine at the Arcola Theatre
Saturday 30th March 2019, matinée Little Miss Sunshine seems like perfect material for William Finn – it’s a quirky film full of dark humour, and continues the theme of child exploitation which he explored in the 25th Annual Putnam County … Continue reading
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