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Live It Up!

Live It Up!

1963

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Directed by Lance Comfort
Original story by Lyn Fairhurst
Screenplay by Lynn Fairhurst
Idea by Harold Shampan

Main composer: Joe Meek

CAST:
The Smart Alecs:
David Hemmings- David Martin
John Pike – Phil
Heinz Burt – Ron
Steve Marriott – Ricky

Jennifer Moss – Jill, Dave’s girlfriend
Joan Newell – Margaret Martin, Dave’s mum
Ed Devereaux – Herbert Martin, Dave’s dad
Penny Lambirth, Barbara, Ron’s girlfriend
Peter Glaze – Mike Moss, an agent
David Bauer- Mark Watson, TV producer
Veronica Hurst- Kay, PA to Mark Watson
with

Dave Clark – Recording Man
Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen – Themselves
Trisha Noble – self, as Patsy Ann Noble
Gene Vincent – self
Sounds Incorporated – Themselves
The Outlaws – Themselves
Andy Cavell & The Saints – Themselves
Kim Roberts – self

60s Retrospective Series

SEE ALSO THE SEQUEL: Be My Guest (1965)

Release dates: UK November 1963, USA November 1964 (as Sing and Swing)

You need to see the Joe Meek biopic Telstar in conjunction with this. There you will discover how Heinz who wasn’t a very good singer, bass guitarist or actor got the part in Live It Up! Gene Vincent also appears in the film with his Joe Meek connection. Secondhand record collectors know that anything with Joe Meek’s name, whether engineer, producer or composer, is collectable.

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Heinz Burt as Ron, Penny Lambirth as girlfriend Barbara

The most interesting thing about the film was the pairing of two future major stars in the young band, “The Smart Alecs” …  David Hemmings and Steve Marriott. How galling it must have been for Steve Marriott, one of the great British rock voices, pretending to back Heinz, whose claim to fame was being plucked from the role of Tornados bass guitarist to singer because Joe Meek fancied him. In contrast to the story in Telstar, Heinz denied there was a physical relationship. Apparently Joe Meek was not at all backward about coming forward and made a pass at Tom jones:

Tom Jones:  I was ready for most aspects of the music industry but when I met the producer Joe Meek, that threw me off a bit. Because he was a homosexual. I thought, wait a minute, is the London scene, the people who run British showbusiness – are there a lot of homosexuals involved here? Because if so, I’m going back to Cardiff.
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David Hemmings as Dave

David Hemmings was in his third role in a music picture in short order after Play It Cool and Some People a year earlier. This was his first lead role, but he’d been acting since he was twelve and says Blow Up was his 48th movie.

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Steve Marriott as Ricky, drummer of The Smart Alecs

Steve Marriott started out as an actor appearing in TV shows as diverse as Mr Pastry’s Progress, Dixon of Dock Green and William. Later he became a Small Face.

Jennifer Moss plays the girlfriend, Jill. She was Lucille Hewitt in Coronation Street from 1960-1974, clocking up appearances in 756 episodes. Her first rock connection was as the dancer on the cover of the 1958 album, Six-Five Special, based on one of the very few TV music programmes. This film was an attempt to launch a singing career, and she made several singles with Joe Meek.

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Jennifer Moss on Six-Five Special (my LP)

The Outlaws included Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple) on lead guitar, Chas Hodges (Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers, Head Hands & Feet, Chas & Dave) on bass guitar, Mick Underwood (The Herd, Episode Six, Terry Reid, Gillan among many others) on drums. Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience) had a minor part listed as ‘Alan Mitchell’.

The film was produced by a division of Top Rank run by Harold Shampan, and its aim was pop exploitation films for kids starved of music on BBC Radio and on TV. BBC Radio’s Light Programme still had strict needle-time agreements with the Musicians Union which meant that much of its schedule was devoted to live cover versions by ballroom dance bands and dance band vocalists.  It was hoped the films would sell records and make new pop stars, a venture which was doomed largely to failure.

The budget is summed up by the locations. Dave, as a GPO messenger,  has to deliver a letter to Rank’s Pinewood Studios where Mark Watson (David Bauer) is producing pop promotion films. We see the gateway, the corridors, the studios. They didn’t even have to dress the sets. Mark Watson is a wheeler-dealer with a light American accent (Bauer was American but had spent much of his career in Britain after the Hollywood witch hunts). Watson is continually looking for promotion stunts to get his films and pop productions into the press, spouting orders to his long-suffering PA, Kay (Veronica Hurst). Basically Watson is a comic version of Harold Shampan then.

There is a sequel, Be My Guest in 1965 with David Hemmings, Steve Marriott and John Pike together again as Dave, Ricky and Phil.

THE PLOT

Dave (David Hemmings) is a motorbike messenger for the GPO (General Post Office), and all four lads in The Smart Alecs are GPO messengers, delivering telegrams and express deliveries. Dave lives at home with a strict authoritarian 1950s dad (Ed Deveraux). Dad grumbles when the paper boy delivers several music weeklies because of the expenditure .

Dad: You’ve got to have shares in that paper shop!
Dave: You’ve got to keep up with the music world.

Mum (Joan Newell) later hands him the post, which includes mail order stuff … Top Ten Club. I was surprised at the mention of this … mail order cover versions, six to an EP, generally despised by the major labels.

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Jill (Jennifer Moss), Mum (Joan Newell), Dad (Ed Deveraux)

Jill (Jennifer Moss) has popped in to ask Dave if he can help with her mum’s telly. She’s been fiddling with it and now that there are TWO channels, BBC and ITV, it can be hard to get back to the other one. Dave, oblivious to her charms says he can’t help, and dad goes to help instead.

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Dave on a Vespa scooter – later a Mod icon

Dave goes to work to meet the lads. This is 1963 and it was a very early Mods v Rockers reference. Dave turns up at work on a Vespa scooter (identical to my sister’s), while the leather clad Ron (Heinz Burt) is on a motorbike.

Ron: At least I’ve got a bike, not an egg whisk!

This was prescient, a year before Mods v Rockers really hit the news. Anyway, at work they all ride GPO small motor bikes. The lads discuss making a demo and suggest names for the band.

Mum (Joan Newell) works in a dry cleaner’s. Mike Moss (Peter Glaze), an old theatrical agent drops off a suit and she recognizes him. He’s in town looking for new acts. I guess “town” will be Slough, the location of Pinewood Studios. Mike knows her from twenty years back when she sang in a duo, and she dropped out of showbiz when her singing partner Bob died. (Ah, I thought- this might explain her husband’s aversion to showbiz!) He gives her his card.

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Demo: Live It Up! Dave Clark as ‘recording man.’

The first music number is the lads in a demo studio recording Live It Up.  Ron (Heinz) is lead singer with a six string guitar. Dave does an impressive lead guitar solo. Neither David Hemmings as Dave, nor John Pike as bass player Phil look as if their fingers are anywhere near what we are hearing.

Dad is furious to hear that the lads have spent £20 on the demo. The average adult male wage in 1963 was £16. I got £2.15s (2.75) a week that summer. The GPO boys won’t have been on that much more. Dad wants Dave to give up hopes of a pop career and ominously warns him that he has just one month to succeed or get a proper job at the hotel where he is doorman.

Dave has to deliver a package to Mark Watson at a large house (which will not be far from Pinewood!) The housekeeper tells him that Mark Watson is at the studio, fifteen miles away (NOT!). Dave offers to take it for an excess  postage charge. Dave rides to Pinewood but his motorbike breaks down and he has to stop and repair it.

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Dave at the famous Pinewood gatehouse.

Dave arrives and insists on giving the package to Mark Watson by hand, blagging that he needs a personal signature. Mark (Dave Bauer) is arguing with his PA (Veronica Hurst) about promotion schemes as his last film, Don’t Touch My Bikini! had been banned.

So Dave gets to watch Kenny Ball and His Jazzmen performing Don’t Give Me That Jazz (a snippet,) The crew are resetting lights on the gallery and a large box falls hitting Dave on the head and knocking him out. Mark sees a promo opportunity and after Dave has recovered, he is allowed to meet the avuncular Kenny for a photo.

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Dave with Kenny Ball: the posed photo

This gives Mark an idea. He gets Dave to lie down on the floor again and takes a photo of heroic Kenny Ball helping him to sit up. This will be a press release to promote Kenny’s record.

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Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen: Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes

We get a full version of Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes. They’re good, and while I’m sure they’re miming, they look real. The words include a love so gay which I thought innocuous in 1963, but Kenny Ball does a little jokey limp wrist wave on the line which might or might not be an in-joke.

Anyway, the story gets on the front page, and Jill (Jennifer Moss) comes round to the house with a bunch of grapes for the invalid. Dave is distracted and snaps at her:

Dave: Another time, Jill. The boys will be waiting.

Jill goes to her friend Barbara’s shop (Penny Lambirth). Barbara is Ron’s girlfriend. There’s a guitar instrumental in the background, which will be the Outlaws. Her boss, Aldo flounces about putting clothes on models and also snaps at downtrodden Jill.

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Barbara: A bit temperamental. You know what they’re like.

I suppose she means effeminate boutique owners by “they” – there seems to be a running in-joke theme. The clothes in the film were early Mary Quant and John Stephens.

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The boys are hanging out on the roof (trying to look very West Side Story) when Jill and Barbara arrive. They clear off, leaving Jill sad and lonely. Cue a solo Please Let It Happen To Me which is not a good song in spite of its Joe Meek provenance.

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Don’t Let It Happen To Me: Jennifer Moss as Jill.

So, Dave is distracted because he’s lost the £20 demo tape, and daren’t tell the boys. He tells Mum.

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Mum (Joan Newell) – a very good 1963 boy’s bedroom set

Fortunately, he gets a phone call to do a TV interview following the news photo with Kenny. There is no explanation, but the whole band go and are to do a song after the interview.

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Kim Roberts: For Loving Me This Way

First they watch Kim Roberts performing For Loving Me This Way. In 1963 style she has an almost impossibly “waspied” waist and three shapely backing singers.

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The Smart Alecs waiting to play: David Hemmings (Dave), Heinz Burt (Ron), Steve Marriott (Ricky), John Pike (Phil)

The compere is about to interview Dave while the lads wait behind the curtain to play, but he keeps blabbing on, and Dave doesn’t get a word in. Then their number is cut altogether to make way for a cricket test score report.

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Mick Moss watches.

Still, Mum’s old pal Mick Moss (Peter Glaze) is persuaded to hear them play Up On The Roof up on the roof. This is a guitar instrumental with a Shadows walk. It will be The Outlaws playing I think. Mick Moss is impressed and offers them a gig at the Glasgow Empire… this is a further showbiz in-joke. It was a terrifying venue, known as the comedian’s graveyard because the audience were fast to boo or heckle. They explain that they can’t get off work, and anyway their parents wouldn’t allow them.

Jill visits Dave, and she is wearing a blonde wig (does she fear that he’s attracted to Ron’s blonde barnet?) He doesn’t even notice though everyone else does. He’s phoning round trying to find the tape, and eventually he tells her about the loss, then pauses:

Dave: It’s you. You look different. I don’t know what it is.

Ouch. Then without intro or explanation, except that Dave is dreaming of showbiz success, we switch to Sounds Incorporated, Keep Moving, a Joe Meek sax-led instrumental.

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Sounds Incorporated: Keep Moving

I saw them right in November 1963 as the film was released. Saw but not heard. The poor bastards were supporting The Beatles and their entire set was drowned out by boos and WE WANT THE BEATLES!

With a little prompting from Jill, remarkably pleasant after the hair failure, Dave remembers his bike breaking down on the way to the studio, and taking his jacket off to mend it! They can all go out for a country excursion and Dave can look for it without revealing to the lads that it was lost.

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Off they go, Ricky and Phil in a Hillman Minx convertible, and Ron and Barbara on his bike. Dave and Jill on the Vespa.  Jill has removed the blonde wig and is now dark again. Eventually Dave notices.

Barbara gets the comic lines. One I haven’t heard since 1963 but I had heard it many times before:

Barbara: My sister bought a book called “Scouting for Boys”. It wasn’t a bit like she imagined!

They can’t find the tape. As they drive off you expect a driving theme music, and you get it, but instead of the car on the road,  you see the driving music in the studio with The Outlaws, Law & Disorder. Interesting. They have a Fender pedal steel guitar, 12 string guitar (both most unusual in 1963 in the UK) and 6 string guitar, but there is no bass in view. So what’s that I hear …

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The Outlaws: Law and Disorder

At home, Mike Moss has called and the family are gathered round the piano with mum leading a good old sing song. Showbiz is in the blood. Or genes. Or jeans.

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Family sing song with Mick Moss and Jill

In the studio, Mark is talking about another movie, Don’t Tamper With My Isotope and we’re into a clip of Accidents Will Happen by Patsy Ann Noble. ‘Could be a hit,’opines Mark. It wasn’t. It was written by EMI Producer Norrie Paramour, who got a dire song into every movie made in that era. Pity. Good singer, good dancer.

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Accidents Will Happen: Patsy Ann Noble

We’re getting through the 70 minutes run time fast and they need to start packing the music in. So after a scene back at the GPO office where Dave is questioned about the tape we get Gene Vincent.

Gene Vincent was in the UK for tax reasons and working with Joe Meek, and touring. He was on TV a lot around then. He sings Temptation Baby and unaccountably starts singing while polishing a vintage traction engine. This was beloved of the era … in Just For You people sang to vintage cars. Weird.

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Temptation Baby, Gene Vincent

“gonna cuddle you close
cos I love you the most
Ooh! temptation Baby!”

Sweet Gene Vincent. At last! A bloke  finds the tape! It had been left on a chair in the studio and no one had noticed they’d been sitting on it over several days.

Dave has confessed all and the boys are playing an instrumental on the roof – without him! And without drums. Steve Marriott is on guitar.

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Back at Pinewood, Mark Watson is discussing more publicity scams with his PA when a guy comes in and says he wants Mark to hear a “mystery group” The Smart Alecs. Yes! This is the tape! What a gimmick! A mystery group! (One thinks The Four Seasons masquerading as The Wonder Who a year later, or of Klaatu hoping people might be daft enough to think they were The Beatles).

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Mark Watson (David Bauer) and Kay (Veronica Hurst)

Poor Dave has decided to give up music. Surprisingly, Dad, who is a role model being strict but fair and kind, advises him to keep trying. Kenny Ball will be appearing at the Supper Room at the hotel where Dad works and Mark Watson will be watching. They need to get to him!

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Rondo: Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen. The musician’s nightmare. Cabaret for supper.

At the hotel, Mark is having dinner watching poor Kenny playing Rondo to a cabaret audience.

The boys are at Jill’s taxi office planning to get Mark Watson.

Dave: Bring him here! Put him on the roof. Give him a show!
One of the others: Oh, dear. You’ve seen too many movies.

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Waiter: Your taxi will be here in fifteen minutes.

They decide to use the taxi company’s phone. They will phone and tell Mark his taxi will be there in fifteen minutes. The taxi picks him up, driven by Jill’s boss.

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The driver switches on the radio phone and we hear the boys playing Live It Up into the phone at the taxi office. Jill twists in the middle of the band. The radio has remarkably high fidelity through its tiny speaker.

Mark: Driver! Follow that music!

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Heinz: Don’t You Understand. 

Then we assume The Smart Alecs have made it, because we end with them performing Don’t You Understand on the studio soundstage. They stick to facial close ups as much as possible to avoid hands on fretboards.

Live It Up gets a third go over the credits.

OVERALL

It’s short … 80 minutes. It would have been shown alongside one of those Edgar Lustgarten Presents detective stories which were mainly used for snogging in the cinema. I thought it surprisingly good-  David Hemmings, Jennifer Moss and Steve Marriott all have screen presence. There’s enough story not to be overwhelmed by the music and there is a degree of justification in the plot for seeing most of the clips.

SOUNDTRACK

There was no soundtrack LP, but Heinz released an EP with the title. Heinz has just had his major hit, UK #5 no less, with Just Like Eddie, which is a Guilty Pleasure. I bought it.

Rondo Kenny Ball copy

Rondo by Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen was a UK #26 hit ahead of the film’s release. I love the design of the Pye  Jazz label, and keep picking up copies of records – they’re always in the cheapest section in charity shops. Sadly they’re mainly trad jazz, though Bo Diddley did an LP on the Pye Jazz label. Kenny Ball carved out a chart career by taking film music themes and doing them as Trad Jazz. They were much harder to play than most trad jazz, as I found out to my chagrin when asked to sit in with a trad band after their bass player got too drunk. I was OK until they started Green Leaves of Summer, a Kenny Ball hit.

The Outlaws specialized in guitar instrumentals with Wild West titles … Valley of The Sioux, Ambush, Indian Brave. Law and Disorder was a single, but not a hit.

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SOUNDTRACK LIST:

Law & Disorder (Joe Meek) – The Outlaws
Keep Moving (Joe Meek) – Sounds Incorporated
Loving Me This Way (Joe Meek) – Kim Roberts
Temptation Baby (Joe Meek) – Gene Vincent
Please Let It Happen To Me (Joe Meek) – Jennifer Moss
Accidents Will Happen (Norrie Paramour, Bob Barratt)- Patsy Ann Noble
Live It Up (Joe Meek) – Heinz
Don’t You Understand (Joe Meek)  – Heinz
Don’t You Take It From Me (Joe Meek)  – Andy Cavell & The Saints
Rondo (Mozart) – Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
Hand Me Down My Walking Shoes (Arr. Kenny Ball) – Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen

 

POP EXPLOITATION FILMS ON THIS BLOG

The Six Five Special (1958)
The Young Ones (1962)
Play It Cool (1962)
Summer Holiday (1963)
What A Crazy World (1963)
Live It Up! (1963)
Just For You (1964)
Wonderful Life (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Be My Guest (1965)
Gonks Go Beat (1965)
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
Help! (1965)

THE 60s REVISITED REVIEWS …

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A Taste of Honey (1961)
The Young Ones (1962
Some People (1962)
Play It Cool (1962)
Summer Holiday (1963)
Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Fast Lady (1963)
What A Crazy World (1963)
Live It Up! (1963)
Just For You (1964)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
Wonderful Life (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965)
Gonks Go Beat (1965)
Cat Ballou (1965)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Darling (1965)
The Knack (1965)
Help! (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966)
Alfie (1966)
Harper (aka The Moving Target) 1966
The Chase (1966)
The Trap (1966)
Georgy Girl (1966)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Nevada Smith (1966)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
The Family Way (1967)
Privilege (1967)
Blow-up (1967)
Accident (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name (1967)
How I Won The War (1967)
Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
Poor Cow (1967)
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1968)
The Magus (1968)
If …. (1968)
Girl On A Motorcycle (1968)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (aka The Devil’s Bride) (1968)
Work Is A Four Letter Word (1968)
The Party (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Barbarella (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Bullitt (1968)
Deadfall (1968)
The Swimmer (1968)
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
Medium Cool (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
Performance (1970)

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      • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
      • The Banshees of Inisherin
      • The Book of Life 3D
      • The Book Thief
      • The Conspirator
      • The Debt
      • The Deep Blue Sea
      • The Dig
      • The Disaster Artist
      • The Duke
      • The English
      • The Father
      • The Five-Year Engagement
      • The French Dispatch
      • The Frightened City
      • The Girl On The Train
      • The Girl Who Played With Fire
      • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
      • The Grand Budapest Hotel
      • The Great Gatsby
      • The Greatest Showman
      • The Help
      • The Highwaymen
      • The History Man
      • The Imitation Game
      • The Irishman
      • The Iron Lady
      • The Joy of Six
      • The Jungle Book (2016)
      • The King’s Man
      • The Life of Pi
      • The Look of Love
      • The Lost Daughter
      • The Man In The Hat
      • The Midnight Sky
      • The Phantom of The Open
      • The Power of The Dog
      • The Prom
      • The Railway Man
      • The Salisbury Poisonings (TV series)
      • The Secret Garden
      • The Theory of Everything
      • The Trial of The Chicago Seven
      • The Wolf of Wall Street
      • Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
      • tick, tick … BOOM!
      • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
      • To Olivia
      • War for the Planet of the Apes
      • West Side Story (2021)
      • What Maisie Knew
      • Widows
      • Wild Mountain Thyme
      • Wild Target
      • Wolf Hall TV Series
      • World on Fire
      • Yesterday
    • Film – the 60s retrospectives
      • A Hard Day’s Night
      • A Taste of Honey (1961)
      • Accident
      • Alfie (1966)
      • Barbarella (1968)
      • Be My Guest
      • Beat Girl
      • Blow-up
      • Bonnie and Clyde
      • Bullitt (1968)
      • Cat Ballou
      • Catch Us If You Can
      • Custer of The West
      • Darling
      • Deadfall (1968)
      • Doctor Zhivago
      • Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
      • Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
      • Georgy Girl
      • Girl On A Motorcycle
      • Gonks Go Beat
      • Harper (aka The Moving Target)
      • Help!
      • Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
      • How I Won The War
      • I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name
      • If ….
      • Just For You
      • Little Fauss & Big Halsy
      • Live It Up!
      • Medium Cool
      • Modesty Blaise (1966)
      • Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment
      • Nevada Smith
      • O’ Lucky Man!
      • Performance
      • Petulia
      • Play It Cool
      • Poor Cow
      • Privilege
      • Six-Five Special
      • Some People
      • Sparrows Can’t Sing
      • Summer Holiday
      • Take A Girl Like You
      • Ten Little Indians
      • The Bofors Gun
      • The Carpetbaggers
      • The Chalk Garden (1964)
      • The Chase (1966)
      • The Devil Rides Out
      • The Family Way
      • The Fast Lady
      • The Ipcress File
      • The Knack … and how to get it
      • The Magic Christian
      • The Magus
      • The Party (1968)
      • The Party’s Over
      • The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
      • The Small World of Sammy Lee
      • The Swimmer (1968)
      • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
      • The Trap
      • The Yellow Rolls-Royce
      • The Young Ones
      • Theorem (Teorema)
      • Tom Jones
      • What A Crazy World
      • Wonderful Life
      • Work Is A Four Letter Word
    • It was fifty years ago in May …
    • John Wetton Tribute
    • music
      • 45 rpm records …
        • Leon Rosselson
      • Anglicana … and Americana
      • Anti songs
      • Broadside: Bellowhead
      • Concerts
        • 70th Party …
        • ABBA Tribute / BSO
        • Al Stewart
        • Albert Lee
        • Allen Toussaint
        • American Queen Ensemble
        • Andy Williams
        • Animals & Friends / Steve Cropper
        • Art Garfunkel
        • Bap Kennedy
        • Bellowhead 2.2013
        • Bellowhead 2014
        • Bellowhead 2016
        • Bellowhead 7.2013
        • Bellowhead 7.2015
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
        • Bob Dylan – 2022
        • Bob Dylan 2002
        • Bob Dylan 2006
        • Bob Dylan 2017
        • Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
        • Brian Wilson
        • BSO: Coming to America
        • BSO: Triumphal Elgar
        • Carole King – Hyde Park
        • Chris Rea
        • Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
        • Cliff Richard 2018
        • Crosby, Stills & Nash
        • Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
        • Don Henley – Hyde Park
        • Dr John
        • Eliza Carthy
        • Emma Swift
        • Emmylou Harris
        • Fay Hield 2013
        • Fay Hield 2014
        • Fay Hield 2016
        • Fleetwood Mac 2003
        • FLIT
        • Garth Hudson 1999
        • Garth Hudson 2007
        • Glen Campbell
        • Glenn Tilbrook
        • Gospel in West Helena
        • Grupo Lokito
        • Hal Wilner Leonard Cohen Project
        • Hall & Oates
        • Ian Felice 2018
        • James Taylor 2014
        • James Taylor, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jimmy Cliff
        • Joan Baez
        • John Cale Paris 1919
        • John Cale, Brighton 2011
        • John Lydon
        • Johnny Flynn, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
        • Jonathan Wilson
        • Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Mingus
        • Joyce Cobb
        • Judy Collins – 2020
        • Judy Collins 2010
        • Judy Collins 2013
        • k.d. lang
        • Kiefer Sutherland
        • King Crimson – 2018
        • KT Tunstall
        • Legends: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Lulu
        • Leonard Cohen Aug 2013
        • Leonard Cohen July 2009
        • Leonard Cohen Nov. 2008
        • Leonard Cohen O2 2008
        • Loudon Wainwright III
        • Louise Goffin – Hyde Park
        • Lulu
        • Margo Price
        • Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
        • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
        • Michael Kiwanuka – Hyde Park
        • Michelle Shocked 2001
        • Natalie Merchant
        • NKOTB
        • P.P. Arnold 2019
        • Paul Simon & Sting 2015
        • Paul Simon – Hyde Park 2018
        • Paul Simon 2016
        • Paul Simon Nov. 2006
        • Paul Simon Oct. 2000
        • Preston Shannon
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Ralph McTell 2016
        • Richard Thompson 2017
        • Rita Coolidge
        • Rodriguez
        • Roger Chapman
        • Roger McGuinn
        • Rufus Wainwright
        • Sam Lee & Friends
        • Sandy Denny Tribute
        • Saving Grace
        • Seth Lakeman 2014
        • Shawn Colvin, Hyde Park Review
        • Simi Stone
        • Simon & Garfunkel 2004
        • Simone Felice – Oct 2015
        • Simone Felice 2011
        • Simone Felice April 2012
        • Simone Felice April 2014
        • Simone Felice July 2013
        • Simone Felice November 2014
        • Simone Felice Sept 2012
        • Simone Felice- Oct 2016
        • Sly & The Family Stone
        • Spiers & Boden 5.13
        • Spiers & Boden, 6.13
        • Spiers and Boden 2014
        • Steeleye Span
        • Suzanne Vega
        • Symphonic Pink Floyd
        • Taj Mahal
        • The Australian Pink Floyd
        • The Band
        • The Bleedin Noses
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2018
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2022
        • The Cactus Blossoms
        • The Civil Wars
        • The Decemberists
        • The Delines
        • The Demon Barbers
        • The Foundations
        • The Full English
        • The Grand Ole Opry
        • The Imagined Village
        • The Manfreds – 2016
        • The Manfreds 2011
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016
        • The Mastersons, Hymn For Her
        • The Mavericks
        • The palmer james group
        • The Platters
        • The Searchers
        • The Transports
        • The Unthanks 03.11
        • The Unthanks 04.2012
        • The Unthanks 10.2012
        • The Unthanks 12.11
        • The Unthanks 2.2015
        • The Unthanks 2019
        • The Unthanks 2022
        • The Unthanks 5.2017
        • The Waterboys
        • Thea Gilmore
        • Tom Jones
        • Van Morrison
          • Van Morrison 1998
          • Van Morrison 1999
          • Van Morrison 2000
          • Van Morrison 2001
          • Van Morrison 2002 Jan.
          • Van Morrison 2002 Oct.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Jul.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Sep.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Mar.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Nov.
          • Van Morrison 2007
          • Van Morrison 2012
          • Van Morrison 2013
          • Van Morrison 2019
        • Ward Thomas, Hyde Park
        • Zawinul Syndicate
        • Zoot Money
      • Gigs, venues and prices
      • HMV. His Master’s Voice silenced?
      • Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
      • Music From Big Pink – 50th anniversary
      • Names, Scribble & Numbers
      • Nancy Sinatra
      • Note of Hope (Woody Guthrie)
      • Phil Everly RIP
      • Rock pictures
      • RoseAnn Fino
      • Shadows In The Night
      • Thank You For The Muzac
      • The Band reviews & pictures
      • The Beautiful Old
      • The Village Green Preservation Society
      • The Weight – covers
      • Twelve Songs For Christmas 2013
    • rants
      • 100 Days Plus and Counting …
      • Driving Me Mad …
      • A Fishy Story
      • A Legal Matter
      • A Post-Brexit Vision
      • Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
      • Allergies … and lawyers
      • Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
      • Barcodes
      • Beaujolais Nouveau …
      • Best of 2011
      • Best of 2012
      • Best of 2013
      • Best of 2014
      • Best of 2015 – music
      • Best of 2015 – Theatre
      • Best of 2016 – Music
      • Best of 2016 – Theatre
      • Best of 2017 – Music
      • Best of 2017 – Screen
      • Best of 2017- Theatre
      • Best of 2018 – Music
      • Best of 2018 – theatre
      • Best of 2019 – Concerts
      • Best of 2019 – Theatre
      • Best of 2019- Music
      • Best of 2020
      • Best of 2020- Music
      • Best of 2022 – Music
      • Best of 2022- Theatre
      • Cars are cars
      • Chorizo is Vile
      • Christmas Markets
      • Christmases long past …
      • Civil Wars & Statues
      • Climate Change: my rant
      • Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
        • Opposition Leader’s Debate, 16 April 2015
      • Crisis at the Cash Register
      • Culture Shock Bourbon Street
      • Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
      • Encounter: Saul Bellow
      • Eurovision 2022
      • Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
      • Flags and anthems
      • Football nicknames
      • Free Broadband in Every Packet!
      • Guilt and innocence
      • Hail, hail, the first of May
      • Howards End is a blur
      • In the April Garden …
      • In The Days of Covid-21
      • In the May Garden
      • Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
      • Jumble Sales
      • Land Of My Mother’s
      • London-centric theatre
      • Mail v Guardian
      • Major Brylcreem or My adventures in the CCF
      • Matinees
      • Not an amazing grace
      • On The Road: Information overkill
      • Parent and child spaces
      • Poppies
      • Princely Names
      • Quaint hotels
      • Remember, remember …
      • Secondhand Christmas
      • Shrink wrapping albums
      • Sloppy fiction?
      • Someone will call you back …
      • Sound … and Fury… at The Globe
      • SS-GB – Mumbling soundtracks
      • Supermarket check-outs
      • Surveys
      • Testing in schools
      • The “Poldark” Effect
      • The 2019 watershed?
      • The 70s were crap
      • The Building Behind Me …
      • The Cheerful e-bay seller
      • The Curse of The Crawleys: Downton Abbey Series 10
      • The Decline of Bournemouth
      • The End of Deference …
      • The Famous Five – by Paul F. Newman
      • The four day week?
      • The Great War
      • The Hacking Cough
      • The Long & The Short Of It
      • The March of The Halloumi Fries
      • The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
      • The Stitch Up
      • View From The Queue
      • What happened to car CD players?
      • What’s happened to air travel?
    • stage
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Cheek by Jowl
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Wanamaker
      • 8 Hotels
      • A Damsel in Distress
      • A Little Hotel On The Side
      • A Mad World My Masters
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill 2018
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill Tour 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Young Vic
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Headlong
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
      • A Number
      • A Streetcar Named Desire NT Live
      • A Taste of Honey
      • A Very Very Very Dark Matter
      • A View From The Bridge
      • A Woman of No Importance
      • Abigail’s Party 2013
      • Absolute Hell
      • Ah, Wilderness!
      • Albion
      • All My Sons
      • All New People
      • All’s Well That Ends Well – RSC 2013
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- 2018
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- RSC 2022
      • Amadeus – 2014
      • Amadeus – NT 2017
      • American Buffalo
      • An Enemy of The People
      • An Ideal Husband 2018
      • An Ideal Husband- 2014
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2013
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2017
      • Antony and Cleopatra – Globe
      • Antony and Cleopatra 2012
      • Arcadia
      • Arden of Faversham
      • Around The World in 80 Days
      • As You Like It – Globe 2015
      • As You Like It – Globe 2018
      • As You Like It – National 2015
      • As You Like It – RSC 2019
      • As You Like It RSC 2013
      • Awful Auntie
      • Bakkhai
      • Balletboyz: The Talent
      • Barber Shop Chronicles
      • Bartholomew Fair
      • Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
      • Before The Party
      • Birthday
      • Bitter Wheat
      • Black Comedy
      • Blithe Spirit
      • Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
      • Blood Wedding
      • Blues For An Alabama Sky
      • Boudica
      • Bring Up The Bodies
      • Broken
      • Candida
      • Cardenio
      • Carmen Disruption
      • Caroline or Change
      • Comedy of Errors – Globe
      • Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
      • Comedy of Errors NT 2012
      • Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
      • Communicating Doors
      • Comus
      • Copenhagen
      • Coriolanus – NT Live
      • Coriolanus – RSC
      • Crazy For You
      • Curiosity Shop
      • Cymbeline – RSC
      • Cymbeline – Wanamaker
      • Dancing At Lughnasa
      • Death Of A Salesman
      • Deathtrap
      • Dedication
      • Dido, Queen of Carthage
      • Dinner With Saddam
      • Doctor Faustus
      • Don Carlos
      • Don Juan in Soho
      • Don Quixote
      • Doubt – a parable
      • Dream
      • Dunsinane
      • Echo’s End
      • Educating Rita
      • Edward II
      • Electro Kif
      • Endgame / Rough for Theatre II
      • Eyam
      • Fallen Angels
      • Fantastic Mr Fox
      • Far
      • Farinelli and The King
      • Fences
      • First Light
      • Flare Path
      • Follies
      • For Services Rendered
      • Forests
      • Fortune’s Fool
      • Forty Years On
      • Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word.
      • Frankenstein – NT Encore
      • French Without Tears
      • Funny Girl
      • Future Conditional
      • George’s Marvellous Medicine
      • Girl From The North Country
      • God of Carnage
      • Gypsy
      • Hairspray, The Musical
      • Half A Sixpence
      • Hamilton
      • Hamlet – Cumberbatch
      • Hamlet – Globe 2014
      • Hamlet – Maxine Peake
      • Hamlet – NT 2010
      • Hamlet – RSC 2016
      • Hamlet RSC 2013
      • Hamlet- Almeida / BBC 2017
      • Hamlet- Young Vic 2011
      • Hangmen
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own – review
      • Hay Fever
      • Hecuba
      • Hedda Gabler
      • Hedda Tesman
      • Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 RSC
      • Henry V – 2018
      • Henry V – Jude Law
      • Henry V – RSC 2015
      • Henry VI – Rebellion
      • Henry VI – Wars of The Roses
      • Henry VI: Three plays
      • Hobson’s Choice
      • Hogarth’s Progress
      • Home
      • Home, I’m Darling
      • Hysteria
      • Imogen (Cymbeline) – Globe 2016
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2010
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Suchet, 2015
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Watermill
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2014
      • Importance of Being Earnest- 2018
      • Inala
      • Institute
      • Into The Hoods – Remixed
      • Ivanov
      • Jack Absolute Flies Again
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • Jitney
      • John Gabriel Borkman
      • Julius Caesar – Globe 2014
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2012
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2017
      • Ka
      • King Charles III
      • King John – Globe 2015
      • King John – Rose, 2016
      • King John – RSC 2019
      • King Lear Frank Langella
      • King Lear – Antony Sher, RSC 2016
      • King Lear – Barrie Rutter
      • King Lear – David Haig
      • King Lear – Globe 2017
      • King Lear – McKellen 2017
      • King Lear – Russell-Beale
      • Kiss Me Kate
      • Kunene and The King
      • La Bête
      • Lady Windermere’s Fan
      • Leopoldstadt
      • Life of Galileo
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Local Hero
      • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
      • Love
      • Love For Love
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost – 2018
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost- 2016
      • Love’s Labour’s Won
      • Love’s Sacrifice
      • Love, Love, Love
      • Macbeth – Globe 2016
      • Macbeth – McAvoy 2013
      • Macbeth – National Theatre 2018
      • Macbeth – Tara Arts
      • Macbeth – Young Vic
      • Macbeth RSC 2018
      • Macbeth, RSC 2011
      • Macbeth, Watermill 2019
      • Macbeth- Chichester 2019
      • Macbeth- Wanamaker 2018
      • Mack & Mabel
      • Malory Towers
      • Man and Superman
      • Mary Poppins
      • Me and My Girl
      • Measure for Measure – Globe 2015
      • Measure for Measure – Young Vic
      • Measure for Measure RSC 2012
      • Measure For Measure- RSC 2019
      • Medea NT live
      • Miss Julie / Black Comedy
      • Miss Littlewood
      • Mojo
      • Monsieur Popular
      • Mrs Warren’s Profession
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • Much Ado About Nothing – NT 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Old Vic 2013
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Rose 2018
      • Much Ado About Nothing – RSC 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Northern Broadsides
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2016
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Wyndhams 2011
      • Murder On The Orient Express (stage)
      • Murder, Margaret and Me
      • My Brilliant Friend (play)
      • My Night With Reg
      • Neighbourhood Watch
      • Nell Gwynn
      • Nice Fish
      • No Man’s Land
      • Noises Off
      • Obsession
      • Oklahoma! – Chichester
      • Once
      • One Man, Two Guvnors
      • Othello – Globe 2018
      • Othello – RSC 2015
      • Othello NT 2013
      • Othello- ETT 2018
      • Othello- Wanamaker 2017
      • Othello- Watermill 2022
      • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
      • Our Man in Havana (musical)
      • People
      • People Like Us
      • Pericles
      • Peter & The Starcatcher
      • Peter and Alice
      • Peter Gynt
      • Peter Pan (pantomime)
      • Peter Pan Goes Wrong
      • Photograph 51
      • Pitcairn
      • Plastic
      • Platonov
      • Playing Cards 1: Spades
      • Plenty
      • POSH
      • Present Laughter – Chichester 2018
      • Present Laughter – Old Vic 2019
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2003
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2016
      • Pressure
      • Private Lives
      • Privates On Parade
      • Punishment Without Revenge
      • Punk Rock
      • Pygmalion
      • Quatermaine’s Terms
      • Queen Anne
      • Quiz – James Graham
      • Racing Demon
      • Ralegh: The Treason Trial
      • Relative Values
      • Richard II – Globe
      • Richard II – RSC
      • Richard III – Almeida
      • Richard III – Apollo 2012
      • Richard III – Freeman
      • Richard III – RSC 2012
      • Richard III – RSC 2022
      • Richard III – Spacey, 2011
      • Robin Hood (panto)
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Romeo & Juliet – Globe 2017
      • Romeo & Juliet – RSC 2018
      • Romeo & Juliet 2014 – Box Clever
      • Romeo & Juliet, Headlong 2012
      • Romeo & Juliet- Branagh 2016
      • Romeo and Juliet – NT, 2021
      • Romeo and Juliet- Globe 2015
      • Romeo and Juliet: Tobacco Factory
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
      • Ross
      • Rules for Living
      • Salomé – RSC
      • Same Time, Next Year
      • School nativities
      • Secondary Cause of Death
      • Separate Tables
      • Shakespeare in Love
      • She Stoops To Conquer – Bath 2015
      • She Stoops to Conquer – Rain or Shine
      • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • South Pacific
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • Swan Lake
      • Sweet Bird of Youth
      • Switzerland
      • Tamburlaine
      • Tangomotion
      • Tartuffe- RSC
      • The Alchemist – RSC
      • The Argument
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane – 2021
      • The Beaux Stratagem
      • The Birthday Party
      • The Book of Mormon
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Canterbury Tales
      • The Captive Queen
      • The Caretaker
      • The Chalk Garden
      • The Changeling
      • The City Madam
      • The Constant Wife
      • The Country
      • The Country Girls
      • The Country Wife
      • The Cripple of Inishmaan
      • The Crucible, NT 2022
      • The Crucible, Old Vic 2014
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Doctor
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • The Famous Five: A New Musical
      • The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
      • The Ferryman (Acts 2 & 3)
      • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
      • The Four Seasons: A Reimagining
      • The Game of Love and Chance
      • The Ghost Train
      • The Height of The Storm
      • The Homecoming
      • The Hot House
      • The Hypochondriac
      • The Hypocrite
      • The Jew of Malta
      • The Knight of The Burning Pestle
      • The Ladykillers
      • The Lie
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore- 2018
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore-2001
      • The Lock In
      • The Lock In Christmas Carol
      • The Magistrate – NT Live
      • The Magna Carta Plays
      • The Man In The White Suit
      • The Merchant of Venice – Almeida
      • The Merchant of Venice – Globe
      • The Merchant of Venice – RSC
      • The Merry Wives – Northern Broadsides
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – Globe 2019
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – RSC 2012
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor- RSC 2018
      • The Misanthrope ETT
      • The Miser
      • The Narcissist
      • The Nightingales
      • The Norman Conquests
        • Living Together
        • Round & Round The Garden
        • Table Manners
      • The Odyssey
      • The Painkiller (2016)
      • The Play That Goes Wrong
      • The Play What I Wrote
      • The Price
      • The Provoked Wife
      • The Recruiting Officer
      • The Rehearsal
      • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
      • The Rivals
      • The Roaring Girl
      • The Rover
      • The Ruling Class
      • The School for Scandal
      • The Seagull
      • The Seagull- Chichester
      • The Seven Year Itch
      • The Shoemaker’s Holiday
      • The Silver Tassie
      • The Southbury Child
      • The Spire
      • The Storm
      • The Syndicate
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2012
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2019
      • The Taming of The Shrew- Globe 2016
      • The Taxidermist’s Daughter
      • The Tempest – Bath Ustinov
      • The Tempest RSC 2012
      • The Tempest RSC 2016
      • The Tempest- Wanamaker
      • The Truth
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- 2018
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- RSC
      • The Unfriend
      • The Upstart Crow
      • The Wars of The Roses
        • Edward IV
        • Henry VI
        • Richard III
      • The Watsons
      • The Way of The World
      • The Weir
      • The Whale
      • The White Devil – Globe
      • The White Devil – RSC
      • The Winter’s Tale – Branagh
      • The Winter’s Tale – Cheek by Jowl
      • The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2013
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2021
      • The Winter’s Tale- Wanamaker
      • The Witch of Edmonton
      • There and Back Again – An Odyssey
      • Thérèse Raquin
      • This Happy Breed
      • This Is My Family
      • Timon of Athens
      • Timon of Athens – RSC
      • Titus Andronicus – RSC 2017
      • Titus Andronicus- Globe 2014
      • Totem
      • Travels With My Aunt (musical)
      • Travesties
      • Tristan and Yseult 2017
      • Troilus & Cressida RSC 2018
      • True West
      • Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012
      • Twelfth Night – Globe 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Globe, 2021
      • Twelfth Night – NT 2017
      • Twelfth Night – RSC 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Watermill
      • Twelfth Night – Young Vic
      • Twelfth Night RSC 2012
      • Twelfth Night- ETT 2014
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – 2016
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – RSC
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona- 2013
      • Uncle Vanya (Hare)
      • Uncle Vanya (McPherson)
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • Woman in Mind
      • Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown
      • wonder.land
      • Worst Wedding Ever
      • Woyzeck
      • Yerma (2017)
      • Young Chekhov Season
      • Young Marx
    • video
      • A Weekend Away, A Week By The Sea
        • Sections: Weekend Away / By the Sea
      • Dennis Cook: A history
      • Drama, dialogue and video
      • Teaching with video: techniques
      • Video: non-authentic
      • Video: on location
      • Video: Peter Viney Interview
      • Video: What happened?

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