13/12/2015 by Peter Viney
My Best of 2015 in Music is now up. 10 Best albums, 10 Best songs, 10 Best Concerts. Natalie Merchant tops the list for the second year running, best album for Paradise Is Here and best song for the 2015 remake of Jealousy with Simi Stone … who also gets into the Best Song and Best Concert lists.
The Best of 2015-Theatre list will follow.
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13/12/2015 by Peter Viney
Review of Macbeth at the Young Vic in a dance-theatre production which still retains a lot of text and has an outstanding Macbeth in John Heffernan. This got some poor reviews. We thought it brilliant.
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12/12/2015 by Peter Viney
Review of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, directed by Jamie Lloyd at Trafalgar Studios. With Ron Cook, Sam Allen, John Simm, Gary Kemp, Gemma Chan, Keith Allen, John Macmillan. Great cast, great reviews … but we found the intrinsic play dated in spite of a fine production.
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06/12/2015 by Peter Viney
Review added of Cymbeline at the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. This one didn’t make it for us, despite the beauties of the theatre’s candlelit setting.
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05/12/2015 by Peter Viney
Review added of As You Like It at the National Theatre, (LINKED) directed by Polly Findlay. A high-concept production that has polarised reviewers.
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28/11/2015 by Peter Viney
Review of “Queen Anne” (LINKED) by Helen Edmundson, Royal Shakespeare Company. Play on “England’s forgotten queen” in 1702 and her relationship with Sarah Churchill, the most powerful woman in England. Add The Duke of Marlborough, Daniel Defoe, Robert Harley, Sir John Radcliffe, Sydney Godolphin and Jonathan Swift. Lively telling of the reign where Great Britain was united, and became a major power, andwhen political parties really started. Anne was the most successful Stuart monarch.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Beth Park, Emma Cunnife, Hwyel Morgan, Natalie Abrahami, Natascha McElhone, Queen Anne | Leave a Comment »
23/11/2015 by Peter Viney
Review of Pericles (LINKED) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe. Directed by Dominic Dromgoole. A problem play (Shakespeare only wrote the second half) brought to life in a Four Star production.
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16/11/2015 by Peter Viney
My article on Bobbie Gentry is now online at the Toppermost website. (LINKED) There is way, way more to her than Ode To Billie Joe and I’ll Never Fall In Love Again. Check it out.
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13/11/2015 by Peter Viney
The first gig on Thea Gilmore’s November tour (LINKED) is reviewed, at Wimborne, Dorset. A powerful acoustic set, relying on excellent songs.
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12/11/2015 by Peter Viney
Review of Simi Stone from The Attic at the Railway Inn, Winchester, 11th November, with Dan Whitehouse. Simi is known from The Duke & The King as well as her recent work with Natalie Merchant. Her music is “Catskills Motown” and she’s a great singer and performer. Catch the tour!
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