Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amanda Wilkin, Billy Seymour, Ciaran O'Brien, Ekow Quartey, Faith Omole, Jacoba Williams, Jocelyn Jee Esien, Nadine Higgin, Peter Bourke, Rachel Hannah-Clarke, Sean Foley, Victoria Elliott on 29/08/2019| 2 Comments »
Our favourite play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, at the Globe (FOLLOW LINK), directed by Sean Holmes. This one goes flat out as a crowd-pleaser, very broad, very funny. Interactive. Definitely one to see even if it lacks some subtleties. Picture: Bottom as a carnival donkey with Titania.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anita Reynolds, Anne Odoke, Ben Jonson, Blanche McIntyre, Boadicia Ricketts, Bryony Hannah, Dickon Tyrell, Forbes Masson, Heddyd Dylan, Jenna Augean, Joshua Lacey, Jude Owesu, Richard Katz, Zach Wyatt on 29/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review of BARTHOLOMEW FAIR by Ben Jonson (follow link). Ben Jonson’s 1614 play was an innovative city comedy with a dizzying number of characters and events at London’s annual fair / orgy which ran for hundreds of years. Modern dress production in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Read the linked review.
Posted in Uncategorized on 25/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review added of KISS ME KATE (linked) at The Watermill Theatre. Just a cast of twelve sing, act, dance AND play all the instruments live on stage. A spectacular production in this tiny theatre, but let’s hope it tours … our seatswere awful and we’d love to see it again. Read the linked review.
Posted in Uncategorized on 23/08/2019| 1 Comment »
I just added a “rant” under ELT articles: Doesn’t anyone teach intonation anymore? (LINKED)
Posted in Uncategorized on 17/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review added of the play BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm. Set in barbers’ shops in Peckham and six African cities. A revival of the 2017 National Theatre production which will tour after The Roundhouse. Joyous is the catch phrase!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alice Orr-Ewing, Christopher Luscombe, Esh Alladi, Felicity Kendal, Rupert Vansittart, Sarah Earnshaw, Simon Harrison, Simon Higlett, William Boyd on 10/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Argument, by William Boyd (FOLLOW LINK) at Bath Theatre Royal, Summer Season 2019. Directed by Christopher Luscombe. With Felicity Kendal. A very short play indeed with eight or nine scenes, virtually all two part dialogue. Read my review!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Cura, Emma Paetz, Nicholas Wright, Pandora Colin, Richard Eyre, Tory Kittles on 09/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
No, not a hotel review, but the play 8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester. Follow the link above to the full review. A fascinating play based on real events. It is set in a series of hotel rooms during the 1944 tour of “Othello” in America which starred Paul Robeson., plus José Ferrer as Iago and his wife Uta Hagen as Desdemona. The eternal triangle looms in real life as well as on stage. Ferrer takes his revenge on the others. Photo: Paul Robeson and Uta Hagen in the story.
Posted in Uncategorized on 04/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review of Kiefer Sutherland in concert. (LINKED) Yes, Jack Bauer from 24 has recreated himself as an alt.country rock singer and extremely successfully with two excellent albums. Here in concert at the O2 Bournemouth.
Posted in Uncategorized on 03/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Allergies … and lawyers. A heartfelt rant on my blog. The message is “Don’t shop at Sainsburys if you have any allergies” – well, that’s according to their own extensive disclaimers on what might be contained in … wait for it … cheese!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Mitchell, Clemence Poesy, David Hare, John Light, John Standing, Katherine Parkinson, Marty Cruikshank, Michael Byrne, Rupert Everett on 01/08/2019| Leave a Comment »
Review of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, in a new version by David Hare. It is directed by Rupert Everett, who also plays the lead, and co-stars Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd etc). It’s an elaborate production for Bath’s Summer Season, and only seems to be there for two weeks. Surely they must be intending to move on to the West End or tour?
Katherine Parkinson as Sonya Rupert Everett as Uncle Vanya
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