Review of Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings at Poole Lighthouse, 23rd November 2017. This is the “Afterglow” tour and the whole album was played in sequence. A memorable show.

24/11/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings at Poole Lighthouse, 23rd November 2017. This is the “Afterglow” tour and the whole album was played in sequence. A memorable show.

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16/11/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of Quiz by James Graham, world premiere at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre. It is based on the court case around the alleged cheating Major in 2001 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? A state of the art play with rapid changes and a facinating story. It’s interactive too.
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13/11/2017 by Peter Viney
A rant added on the new BBC TV series Howards End. (LINK TO MY COMMENTS) The deliberately out of focus shots annoyed me so much I lost attention. Feel free to comment on the page itself. Why do they keep blurring people?

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11/11/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s lavish production of Twelfth Night, (LINKED) with Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio. This also compares the RSC production with the three other major versions of this play in 2017.

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07/11/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of the English Touring Theatre production of THE WEIR by Conor McPherson. (LINKED). This is on tour, seen here at Poole Lighthouse. The play won the 1999 Best New Play Award, and is rated by Michael Billington as one of his 100 Greatest Plays. An excellent production.

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29/10/2017 by Peter Viney
London’s first new commercial theatre in 80 years, The Bridge, opens with YOUNG MARX by Richard Bean & Chris Coleman, starring Rory Kinnear as Marx and Oliver Chris as Engels. And it’s very funny. Don’t look for debates on dialectical materialism! The review also has pictures of the new Bridge Theatre and its location.

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28/10/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of the musical Romantics Anonymous (LINKED HERE) at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe. Wonderful, feel good stuff by artistic director Emma Rice. (Come back, all is forgiven?)

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27/10/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of Mike Bartlett’s “Albion” (FOLLOW LINK) at the Almeida Theatre:
This play has had ecstatic reviews and is seen as a Brexit allegory. I have a few doubts …

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18/10/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of THE NORMAN CONQUESTS (follow link) by Alan Ayckbourn at Chichester Festival Theatre. This was an opportunity to see these three linked plays … Table Manners, Living Together and Round & Round The Garden all in one day. It was always considered one of the great events of late 20th century theatre, and deservedly so.

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14/10/2017 by Peter Viney
Review of Richard Thompson at Poole Lighthouse, Friday 13th too. Excellent support from Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker. A great acoustic solo show from one of the greatest British songwriters. The tour continues through to the end of October.

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