Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anders Lustgarten, Gareth Machin, Howard Brenton, Salisbury Playhouse, Sally Woodcock, The Magna Carta Plays, Timberlake Wertenbaker on 31/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Magna Carta Plays, four one act plays commissioned by Salisbury Playhouse to reflect on the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta. I fall over backwards to avoid negative reviews. However, this was the worst stuff I’ve seen in a theatre in three years. Four very poor short plays. But hey, negative reviews can be more interesting than my normal positive ones.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joe Hill-Gibbins, Measure For Measure, Paul Ready, Romola Garai, Zubin Varla on 29/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Measure for Measure at the Young Vic. A complete contrast to this summer’s hilarious Globe production. Directed by Joel Hill-Gibbins, lots of projection, live video feeds, modern dress.
Photo is Duke Vincentio, with the condemned Claudio projected from a live video feed.
Posted in Uncategorized on 24/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
I found a New Musical Express with the adverts for the initial release of three competing versions of “The Weight” on 7th September 1968. It inspired an article to display the pictures … linked HERE.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anna Ziegler, Crick & Watson, Edward Bennett, Hotograph 51, Joshua Silver, Michael Grandage, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Kennedy, Stephen Campbell Moore, Will Attenborough on 23/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review added of “Photograph 51″ by Anna Ziegler, in the London production by the Michael Grandage Company, starring Nicole Kidman. Play about the discovery of DNA and the credit which went only to the male scientists involved. Nicole Kidman plays Dr Rosalind Franklin.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bath Ustinov, Charlotte Wakefield, Eugene Marin Labiche, French farce, Gregory Gudgeon, Howard Ward, Jeremy Sams, Monsieur Popular, Raymond Coulthard on 18/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
After an intensive week of Chekhov and Shakespeare, a total change in Monsieur Popular by Eugene Marin Labiche, a classic French farce from 1863 at Bath;s Ustinov Studio.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alex Waldmann, Edward IV, Henry VI, Joely Richardson, John Barton, Kare Conradi, Peter Hall, Richard III, Robert Sheehan, Rose Theatre Kingston, Trevor Nunn, Wars of The Roses on 17/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
The Wars of The Roses at Kingston-on-Thames revives the 1963 RSC John Barton and Peter Hall’s adaptation of Henry VI Parts I. II and III plus Richard III into three plays in a day. It was our second three plays in a day in a week.
The Wars of The Roses overview (LINKED)
SEE LINKS BELOW FOR EACH PLAY
Henry VI … 11 am (REVIEW LINK)
Edward IV … 3 pm (REVIEW LINK)
Richard III … 7.30 pm (REVIEW LINK)
Posted in Uncategorized on 16/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Simone Felice and Anna Mitchell at The Attic, Winchester, Wednesday 14th October 2015.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anna Chancellor, Chichester Festival Theatre, David Hare, Ivanov, James McCardle, Jnathan Kent, Joshua James, Lucy Briars, Olivia Vinall, Peter Egan, Platonov, Samuel West, The Seagull, Young Chekov Season on 11/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Three plays in a day in Chichester’s Young Chekhov Season.
Links:
Then three separate reviews:
Platonov below
Ivanov below
The Seagull below
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alistair Whatley, Flare Path, Justin Audibert, Leon Ockenden, Olivia Hallinan, Philip Franks, Siobhan O'Kelly, Terence Rattigan on 08/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Terence Rattigan’s Flare Path (1942) now touring. I saw it at Salisbury Playhouse. I’ve never been a Rattigan fan, and this was just too creakily of its time for me.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanda Lawrence, Angus Imrie, Anneika Rose, Christopher Luscombe, David Rintoul, David Sturzaker, Greg Haiste, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Jay Taylor, Jessica Swale, Nell Gwynn, Richard Katz, Sarah Woodward, Sasha Waddell, Shakespeare's Globe on 05/10/2015| Leave a Comment »
Review of Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale at the Globe Theatre (FOLLOW LINK). In the euphoria after seeing this production, we agree it’s “the best thing we’ve seen at the Globe.” A five star play featuring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Nell.
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