Posted in Uncategorized on 30/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
The second play at Stratford-Upon-Avon was THE EMPRESS by Tanika Gupta (follow link to the full review), returning for its 10th anniversary at the Swan Theatre. This story has three threads, one fictional, the other two based on fact. It was easily the best play of our weekend visit. The Royal Shakespeare Company did a superb production. There’s plenty to think about.
Posted in Uncategorized on 30/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
Review added of AS YOU LIKE IT at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford– follow the link to the review. This production imagines past actors from a 1978 production meeting in a rehearsal room to re-enact the roles they played in their youth. Starring Geraldine James as Rosalind. Conceptually interesting, but does it work? See the review.
Posted in Uncategorized on 21/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
Review of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s THE SOUND OF MUSIC (follow this link). It’s this year’s Chichester Festival Theatre’s featured musical, and every year they come up with a five star one. They’ve done it again. Gina Beck is a fabulous Maria (better than Julie Andrews even for me). The production is stunning. The 14 piece orchestra soar. Try and get to see it.
Posted in Uncategorized on 16/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
The second Shakespeare’s Globe play was A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (follow link to review). My favourite Shakespeare play and the one I’ve reviewed most often. It’s on for a long run this year and definitely one to see. While I’ve seen better over fifty years of watching the play, I doubt you’ll see better in 2023.
Posted in Uncategorized on 16/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
The first review of a weekend of Shakespeare’s Globe comedy, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (follow link to review) A very lively, very funny version of the play which the audience loved, though I have a couple of criticisms too. Still a great entertainment and running to the end of the month, and of course if you don’t mind standing you can always get in to the Globe.
Posted in Uncategorized on 09/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
I’m about to shut down our old website, viney.uk.com. It’s out of date (as most books are out of print) and I’ve transferred most of the articles here. High speed broadband is coming up our road, and I’ll change internet provider when it gets here, and the old providers host the website at a cost. It’s daft to keep it, though it was my older son’s gap year project. So it will disappear.
One of the last remaining bits was a list of places where I gave ELT talks. I didn’t think it worth transferring as we have given very few talks since 2010. It seems a shame to let it all waft into the ether, as I’ll never remember the list, having got rid of most evidence years ago. So here it is, with pictures.
https://peterviney.com/about/elt-articles/in-your-town/
Posted in Uncategorized on 06/07/2023| Leave a Comment »
Link to Adrienne Kennedy & Adam Kennedy’s play MOM, HOW DID YOU MEET THE BEATLES? (follow link to review) at Chichester Minerva Theatre. Rakie Ayola performs as Adrienne Kennedy in this autobiographical piece. Kennedy was an award-winning US playwright who came to London in 1966 to write a play based on John Lennon’s In My Own Write / A Spaniard In The Works. She got Lennon, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Tynan, Victor Spinetti and George Martin involved. In a couple of words, they ripped her off.
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