Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Charles Edwards, Michael Blakemore, Michael Frayn, Patricia Hodge, Paul Jesson on 29/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
Review added of Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (LINKED). It won awards in 1998, and this is the 20th Anniversary production. It is based on the meeting between the Danish physicist Bohr and the German physicist Heisenberg in Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1941, and the implications which led to the atomic bomb. Was I blinded by the science? Read it and see.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bryan Forbes, Eric Portman, Giovanna Ralli, John Barry, Michael Caine, Nanette Newman on 27/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
The series of late 1960s films revisited continues with Deadfall (FOLLOW LINK) directed by Bryan Forbes, starring Michael Caine, Eric Portman and Giovanna Ralli. The John Barry soundtrack is the best thing of all.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jacqueline Blisset, Robert Vaughan, Steve McQueen on 24/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
The next one in the series of late 60s film reviewed on DVD in an attempt to see how memory compares to present reality. Bullitt (LINK TO REVIEW) is from 1968. It’s one everyone must have seen. Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughan and Jacqueline Bisset.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calum Finlay, Lucy Bailey, Phyllis Logan on 23/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
No, not the country, but the play Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith (SEE LINK) at Bath Ustinov Studio. This two person play is based on crime writer Patricia Highsmith. A fascinating and unsettling story.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adrian Lukis, Brendan Coyle, David Suchet, Jonathan Church, Sara Stewart, Simon Higlett on 22/08/2018| 2 Comments »
Review of a lesser-known Arthur Miller play, The Price (LINKED) at Bath Theatre Royal, with David Suchet and Brendan Coyle. It has been critically acclaimed. I have a somewhat contrary view.
Posted in Uncategorized on 20/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
The 60s film retrospective series continues with 1968’s The Thomas Crowne Affair (LINK TO REVIEW) with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adrian Bower, Annette Badland, Becci Gemmell, Blanche McIntyre, Howard Ward, Jordan Metcalfe, Lukr McGregor, Norah Lopez0Holden, Oliver Ryan, Priyanga Burford, Rose Wardlaw, Sirine Saba, Will Keen, Zora Bishop on 19/08/2018| 1 Comment »
Review of The Winter’s Tale at Shakespeare’s Globe added (FOLLOW THE LINK). A lopsided production. The serious bits in Sicily are much better than the pastoral comic bits in Bohemia.
Posted in Uncategorized on 17/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
Review of “Hamilton- An American Musical” added. FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW: https://peterviney.wordpress.com/stage/hamilton/. In the London production. It took a long time to get tickets a long way ahead. It was worth it.
Posted in Uncategorized on 17/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
Review of Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe added SEE LINK. It features Mark Rylance as Iago, and American star André Holland as Othello. The main thing is Rylance’s very original portrayal of Iago as an apparently affable, bumbling trickster who is actually circling his prey like a shark.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Afolaba Alli, Beth Cordingley, Charlotte Josephine, David Acton, David Troughton, Fiona Laird, Ishia Bennison, Jonathan Cullen, Josh Finan, Karen Fishwick, Katy Brittain, Lez Brotherton, Paul Dodds, Rebecca Lacey, RSC, Steve Newberry, Tim Samuels, Toby Park, Tom Padley, Vince Leigh on 13/08/2018| Leave a Comment »
This is what the RSC does so superbly: the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (FOLLOW LINK TO REVIEW) With David Troughton as Falstaff, set in modern day Essex. Stunning design too. There’s a live broadcast on 12 September, then it travels to London for several months.
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