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Best of 2017- Theatre

Most weeks, I open the papers and if they review four plays, I might just see one. But not always. So no, I haven’t seen Oslo for instance. I keep up better on Shakespeare and early theatre because I go to the RSC and Globe a lot.

I start a document for ratings in January and juggle it vaguely during the year. It’s as subjective and capricious as all such lists are. Is #7 REALLY better than #8? Memory is never that strong on productions.

SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY THEATRE

  1. Twelfth Night – Shakespeare’s Globe

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Sir Andrew Aguecheek, Maria & Sir Toby Belch
Directed by Emma Rice

It had the advantage of being seen twice. The first time round, I gave it four stars, because while knocked out by performance and production, I felt it required some knowledge of the play, and my first test on Shakespeare is “Is it transparent if you haven’t studied the play?” However, there were four major Twelfth Night productions this year, and this was my favourite.  Yes, it was “Twelfth Night- The Panto” in some respects, but on second viewing (at night rather than day) it earned a fifth star.

2) Julius Caesar – RSC
Directed by Angus Jackson

I’ve always really disliked this play, so a production that made sense of it and gripped me was a novelty. Three superb lead performances by Martin Hutson as Cassius, James Corrigan as Mark Antony and Alex Waldmaan as Brutus. No attempt to modernise, draw parallels. Lots of togas and armour, but it worked. Five stars.

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3) Dido Queen of Carthage  Swan Theatre, RSC

 

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Chipo Chung as Dido

My review was four star, after saying everything about it was five star, except Christopher Marlowe’s text (in comparison to Shakespeare), I said:

In the end though, it is early Marlowe, and the amount of monologue declaiming as well as the number of classical references mean it’s not in the first rank of Elizabethan plays … well, not quite.  In the September 2017 comparison with Coriolanus playing next door, Dido is the clear winner.

4) Comus – by John Milton, Wanamaker Playhouse

Directed by Lucy Bailey

We saw it at the end of 2016, too late for last year. I gave it five stars, and so it should be in this year’s list.

If Emma Rice’s regime had all been like this with “modernization-lite”  (rather than the plastic curtained proscenium transformation of Imogen with recorded music), I can think only the most pernickety might have complained. Comus was superb. Five stars.

5) Antony & Cleopatra RSC – Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Another four star review.

In the end, Josette Simon is easily the best Cleopatra we have seen, playing against a strong Mark Antony, Set design, lighting and Laura Mvula’s musical score are all five star BUT I can’t get over the length with such a high percentage of dull Roman machinations. Nor did they bring out the interpretations of Enobarbus, Octavius and Lepidus to suit my view.

6) Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare’s Globe

Directed by Matthew Dunster

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I gave it four stars. We saw it early and it was off-pace, a sin for a comedy. Speaking to people who saw it later, they cured that lack of flow. Ultra high-concept and a major set … not really a Globe thing. However, in retrospect the colour, exuberance and sheer effrontery of placing it in the Mexican Civil War wins. I liked the Hollywood film crew replacing Dogberry & The Watch. 

7) Twelfth Night – National Theatre

Directed by Simon Godwin

Olivia (Phoebe Fox) and Cesario (Tamara Lawrence)

I gave it four, The press lined up with three stars. Tamsin Greig as Malvolio, Oliver Chris as Orlando. Phoebe Fox a superb Olivia and Tamara Lawrence a great Viola. I suspect its critical rating dropped because SO much money was spent on it. Do you need a vintage sports car and a motor scooter, let alone a hot tub.

The gender switch didn’t alter the play. Malvolia’s pash for Olivia was played so well, it felt that was the way it was meant. Great actors, but production points did overwhelm at times, and the broad comedy of having a drag queen singing Hamlet’s To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy got the chuckles but the tender aspects of the play got swamped again and again by playing for effects. We’re usually the ones cheering when Shakespeare is played broadly, but here we felt a lack of flow and a lost dimension as a result. Yes, Malvolia splashing in the fountain was hilarious. Yes, Cesario being pulled into the hot tub was hilarious too, but something was lost. I didn’t feel the “Aah!” Factor when everyone got together at the end.

8) King Lear, Chichester Minerva Theatre

Directed by Jonathan Munby


Ian McKellan as King Lear was one of the hottest tickets of the year, given the intimate space of the Minerva Theatre.

Sir Ian McKellen gave a 5 star performance. It wasn’t a 5 star production for us though because if its imbalance.

9) A Midsummer Night’s Dream Young Vic

Directed by Joel Hill-Gibbons

I gave it four stars.

A circus ring full of mud. No props at all. No music, except a choral introduction from the whole cast (an effective Gaudea) then Bottom’s unaccompanied songs, and the Singing fairy. Little dance. No fairy attendants. Modern dress. The only bit of costume was what looked like some tights stuffed to form the Ass’s ears, plus a plastic dangling donkey penis. So this was the Dream stripped to its bare bones, but it proved that the elements still work. It is an unmagical, unmusical Dream, and it did focus on the darker side, but this play can take almost anything directors throw at it. We thoroughly enjoyed it, and various bits of new light were cast.

10) Winter’s Tale- Cheek by Jowl, Bath Theatre Royal
Directed by Declan Donnelan

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Stripped down, minimal set, modern dress. I said:

It is highly original, memorable, and threw new light on many aspects of the play. Orlando James was a towering Leontes. In the end? A five star first half, a three star somewhat confused Bohemia. High concept ending. Unmissable.

 

MODERN THEATRE

A much larger field, and so many plays I didn’t see, but we did see Albion and I haven’t selected it. Seven out of my ten selections are freshly minted 2017 plays too.

1) The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth, Royal Court Theatre

Directed by Sam Mendes

What I said in my 5 star review:

Above all, The Ferryman is a story about the search for truth, the need to put the past to bed perhaps, but you can’t do that without acknowledging it. It also to mourn the fallen.This play is subtle, genuine, and hard-hitting material, and the best play I have seen in a very long time. Probably since Martin McDonagh’s The Hangmen … at the Royal Court, also with John Hodgkinson. And that was the best since Birthday which was at the Royal Court.

2) My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, adapted by April de Angelis, The Rose, Kingston

Directed by Melly Still

Niamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack star as Lenu and Lila

Parts 1 & 2, All day. Five hours. And no, I hadn’t read the books. I loved it. 5 stars. Innovative production, brilliantly scripted.

3) Girl From The North Country by Conor McPherson, Old Vic

Directed by Conor McPherson

I gave it five stars. 

It’s pulling the five star reviews, even from Michael Billington, who awards that level very rarely. The music and singing is definitely at the top end of five star. The play nods towards classic American drama, definitely Wilder, a touch of Miller and O’Neill (Ah! Wilderness was 1933), with that McPherson narrative addition of strange things happening behind the woodshed. Domenic Cavendish in The Telegraph thought it derivative. Yes, it is a touch. But the style fits, as do the almost Edward Hopper flats representing the hotel interior, though later we get photographic Minnesota landscapes projected on the descending flats.

4) The Hypocrite, by Richard Bean, Hull Truck Company / RSC, Swan Theatre Stratford

Directed by Philip Breen

My sort of play. Five stars.

The style made me think of Mickey O’Donaghue’s (Whatever happened to him?) New Vic Company 25 years ago. It’s an old favourite that I’ve often mentioned as a reference in reviews. Mark Addy takes the role of Sir John Hotham and plays it in a particular style, much as Mickey O’Donaghue did, but Mark Addy is even more accomplished. It requires the ability to stand just a shade outside the role at times, making side references (Like Anlaby Road being in West Hull) as well as other modern asides, while also throwing everything into the part. It’s actually a “star comedian” role, with a touch of what Eric Morecambe or Frankie Howard did in pastiching plays. That is, you keep an edge of your personality as well as the role. Yes, there is an edge of “pantomime” lead in the interpretation, but all the better for it. It was a truly magnificent performance.

5) Yerma by Simon Stone, after Lorca, Young Vic Theatre

Directed by Simon Stone

As Billie Piper took a universal standing ovation, I was pleased to see the other five cast members at the side clapping her just as enthusiastically. 5 stars.

6) Romantics Anonymous by Emma Rice, Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe
Directed by Emma Rice

Five stars

It’s running until 20th January so there’s plenty of time to catch it. Try! Yes, it’s a light evening’s entertainment, but as good as light entertainment in musical form gets.

7) Tristan & Yseult, Carl Goose & Anna Maria Murphy, Shakespeare’s Globe
Adapted and directed by Emma Rice

Emma Rice’s flagship production dates back to 2003, when she played the role of Whitehands herself, and had its major revival from 2013 to 2015. Tristan & Yseultis said to be one reason why Emma Rice got the job of artistic director at The Globe, so they shouldn’t have been surprised by electric instruments, recorded music, modern dress and cross-dressed characters, though only two women in the cast is a long way from her much trumpeted aim for 50:50 gender mix on stage. Kneehigh theatre worked collaboratively with blurred lines between writers, adaptor, director and actors. It’s a definitive five star production. It’s finished at The Globe, this was the last day, but continues to tour. Massive applause, three curtain calls.

8) The Norman Conquests (Trilogy), Chichester Festival Theatre

Directed by Blanche McIntyre

Overall? The consensus is four stars. I’d agree on individual plays, but the cumulative effect of the three together deserves an extra star.

Chichester’s “three in a day” Autumn extravaganza is another winner. Fabulous production of Ayckboun’s best plays. My review also covers the renowned and star-studdedcast TV version from 1977, and I concluded that this 2017 cast was better in every role.

9) Vice Versa, by Phil Porter, Royal Shakespeare Company, Swan Theatre

Directed by Janice Honeyman

I had to get to 9th position before my reviews drop below 5 stars for modern plays. Though this is a piece inspired by Plautus’s The Boastful Soldier and served s a comic counterpart to the heavy Roman Season by the RSC in the main theatre.

I would say that Phil Porter captures the spirit of Plautus perfectly for a modern audience. If you did an original Plautus straight, you’d have to add the missing music and dance back in. You’d need to commission a new literal translation first, then depart from it to create a new script. For certain, contemporary references would have been added to fit the week the Romans were seeing a play. Vice Versa does all that. The only reduction from a full marks review is that necessarily the true shock of unexpected comedy isn’t there. The jokes are predictable, but that’s true of pantomime. It’s a bit like Christmas cracker jokes … foreigners can’t grasp that the appeal of them is the groan of recognition. We love that. Fabulous cast. Flat out ensemble playing. Four stars (plus a bit, but not quite five)

10) Quiz, by James Graham, Chichester Minerva Theatre

Directed by Daniel Evans

Mild argument over whether this or Boudica at The Globe. I went for Quiz, my companion for Boudica.

Every actor plays multiple roles, switching seamlessly at high speed. Spot on direction (except for that extra stair – watch from the top row!), spot on lighting. Keir Charles gives us every one of Chris Tarrant’s mannerisms writ large, which is very funny (if you’ve ever see the show).  Earlier, he does Des O’Connor, Bruce Forsyth and Leslie Crowther  well … but Tarrant is the one he really nails perfectly. I loved the play.

BEST ACTOR

1) Michael Hugo- Around The World in 80 Days, New Vic on tour

The physicality, comedy, acrobatics, circus … an all-round performance that holds this revised touring production together,

2) David Troughton, Titus Andronicus, , RSC

Troughton’s great 5 star performance was undermined by some plain daft comedy direction in the second part.

3) Marc Antolin (Twelfth Night,  Romantics Anonymous)

4) David Haig — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Racing Demon, by David Hare

Scene from Racing Demon, Bath Theatre Royal

5) Martin Hutson, Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus

Both in RSC’s Roman Season, Cassius then Saturninus. Yes, two from Titus Andronicus which makes it so weird that the director screwed it up with extraneous daft bits. This is from Julius Caesar.

6) Paddy Considine, as Quinn, The Ferryman

7) Mark Addy – The Hypocrite by Richard Bean

Mark Addy

8) David Tennant, Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber,

9) John Hollingworth, The Norman Conquests

Better than our No 2 in this slot was in the 1977 production in the same role!

10) Gavin Spokes, Quiz

The play rests on the credibility of his character, Charles Ingram

BEST ACTRESS

1) Niamh Cusack & Catherine McCormack (jointly) – My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

2) Shirley Henderson – Girl From The North Country

3) Josette Simone – Antony & Cleopatra

4) Billie Piper- Yerma by Simon Stone

5) Sarah Hadland – Norman Conquests

It was great that she resisted all temptation to “do Penelope Keith” as in the original and TV version and made the part her own. Natural comic ability too.

6) Sophia Nomvete  – Vice Versa, RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford

Pictured with Felix Hayes. She had the rare comic ability to do that Frankie Howard lead role and hold everything together.

7 Victoria Hamilton  – Albion, by Mike Bartlett, Almeida

Several people picked this as Best of The Year. I don’t rate the play that high, but the lead was truly excellent.


8) Eve Best  – A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde, Classic Spring

9) Katie Leung – Snow in Midsummer, RSC Swan Theatre, Stratford

An unexpected delight- it was the fifth in an offer on booking five plays too. The text had some issues, but Katie Leung was tremendous.

10) Phoebe Fox – Olivia 12th Night, RSC

In spite of having Tamsin Greig as Malvolio, I think Olivia tends to be the more interesting part.

Phoebe Fox is a young, pretty, sparky Olivia, full of verve, and ticks Peter Hall’s second box (don’t play Olivia too old). Mark Rylance knows a lead role when he sees one, and he’s played Olivia twice. This is the third time I’ve come out thinking Olivia both the best role AND the best performance of the night. Against great accomplished comic actors playing Malvolia, Orsino, Sir Andrew and Feste, that is some achievement.

SUPPORT ACTOR

1 Adrian Scarborough- Don Juan in Soho by Patrick Marber, Wyndhams

David Tennant was such a convincing Don Juan, likeable even at his most loathsome, and Scarborough such a fine sidekick. Adrian Scarborough, last seen by us as the Fool to Simon Russell-Beale’s King Lear, could corner the market in comedy sidekicks. The two have chemistry, and in the script, there is no reward for Stan’s loyalty. DJ is as incapable of reciprocating Stan’s loyal friendship as he is paying his salary.

2) John Hodgkinson  The Ferryman + Twelfth Night RSC

Englishman Tom Kettle in The Ferryman and Sir Toby Belch in Christopher Luscombe’s Twelfth Night.   I’d chosen him on The Ferryman way back.

3) Stuart Graham  The Ferryman

Another one, same play. He played Muldoon the IRA Man and scared me even in the back stalls.

4) Danny Lee Wynter – Forty Years On, Alan Bennett, Chichester

As Mr Tempest. We liked the play far more than most reviews.

All the faculty were brilliant. When the play opens, and the headmaster was waffling on,  it felt exactly like our school assemblies. Mr Franklin (Deputy Head) and Mr Tempest (young, dramatic) were seated and never stopped scanning the boys and us with eagle eyes. At our school, it was the same. We’d go back to class for registration, and our form master would fly into a rage because he’d spotted someone “not praying” or picking their noses in assembly … just as Alan Bennett’s script. Danny Lee  Wynter did such a wonderful pompous, but very theatrical young master as Mr Tempest.

5. Oliver Chris – Young Marx by Richard Bean & Clive Coleman,  Bridge Theatre  +  Twelfth Night National Theatre

Orlando in Twelfth Night

Arguably, no probably, Engels is the co-lead role in Young Marx. However, i’d put Oliver Chris down as Orlando in Twelfth Night months before, which is mainly why he’s here.

6) James Corrigan,. Coriolanus, RSC, Antony & Cleopatra RSC, Julius Caesar, RSC

Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus

Aufidius, Volscian leader in Coriolanus,  Agrippa in Antony & Cleopatra , Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. So basically a “Rome Season rep award” though Mark Antony would have to be cast as a lead role.

7) Anthony Calf – Racing Demon, by David Hare, Bath

Anthony Calf’s sleek and smart Bishop of Southwark is a great performance. He is managerial, dictatorial, conservative. He gets angrier and angrier during the robing scene (just as in Life of Galileo a few weeks ago at the Young Vic!)  I was fascinated … because on the surface, this guy is an utter bastard … BUT … I had sympathy. There ARE incompetent, ineffectual professionals, be they teachers, doctors, nurses, or lawyers. I’ve met examples of all four.

8) Abraham Popoola, Boudica by Tristan Bernays, Globe

King Badvoc is played by Abraham Popoola who is one of the theatrical finds of the year. He can act, and has a wonderful voice, but more so, he is a giant of a man which gives him huge stage presence. One day he’ll be a fabulous Macbeth … you need a mighty warrior for me. He looks like one.

9) Graham Butler- Sweet Bird of Youth, by Tennessee Williams, Chichester

Then we get Tom Jnr (Graham Butler) the furious, weasely brother of Heavenly confronting Chance.  Butler gives us flat out anger. Superb performance.

 10) Philip Bretherton, Before The Party by Rodney Ackland, Salisbury

Aubrey, the dad

Philip Bretherton plays dad, Aubrey Skinner. He plays it large and close to farce with big expressions and reactions, but that felt right, and was extremely funny.

SUPPORT ACTRESS

1 Carly Bawden  Twelfth Night, The Globe + lead in Romantics Anonymous by Emma Rice

I could have put her in the Top 10 lead actresses too, but she was so far the best Maria in Twelfth Night, that she gets top “support” slot.

2) Amber James as Charmian, Antony & Cleopatra, Anna, Dido, Queen of Carthage

Amber James, right (with Chipo Chung as Dido)

Anna, the Queen’s sister (Dido, Queen of Carthage), is in love with the rejected King Iarbas, and is a strong character, replacing Cleopatra’s gentlewomen. Amber James plays Anna, and played Charmian in Antony & Cleopatra at the RSC this season, so she’s in an uncannily similar role.≥ Amber James is Anna (the second time this year I thought she deserves “best support actress.”) I’m still trying to puzzle how her luxurious curly hair was ripped to reveal a bleeding scalp at the end. Daniel York is Iarbus.

3) Suzanne Burden – Herodias in Salomé, RSC

Marvellous background acting, notably Suzanne Burden as Herodias radiating her contempt of Herod and her displeasure, especially wonderful while consuming a bowl of grapes.

4) Ria Zmitrowicz Plastic, by Mrius von Mayenburg Bath Ustinov Theatre

Ria Zmitrowicz as Jessica, the Young “Estie” cleaner, was outstandingly good. Her deadpan “I don’t imagine anything while I’m working” was so English too, as were her short, laconic replies … she was just “not involved” in Ulricke and Michael’s angst.

5) Amanda Root  Racing Demon by David Hare, Bath

Amanda Root’s stage time is small, as Heather, Lionel’s wife, but has enormous impact and poignancy. She is the dutiful vicar’s wife, but when she has a stroke, it takes Lionel (in the next room) 30 minutes to notice. When she is first home from hospital, and disoriented, Lionel is more interested in playing chess with Frances (and trying to stroke her cheek) than he is in sitting with Heather. Frances has to tell him what to do. Lionel is as useless as a husband and father as he is as a priest … we learn his 19 year old daughter has gone, leaving no address. The most poignant scene, a masterclass in acting from David Haig and Amanda Root, comes at the end. Lionel has lost his job and with it the house. He has said (ineffectually) “Do you want to go to bed?” “No,” is all she replies. He gives Heather a present, a slim book on gardening, her only love. Then announces that they’ll have to live in a flat. Without a garden.

6) Jenny Galloway as The Matron,  Forty Years On by Alan Bennett, Chichester

We once lived next door to a public school matron, and when it was the holidays, she would invite us in for sherry. Jenny Galloway was perfect.

7) Anne Reid – A Woman of No Importance, Classic Spring

The songs were sentimental music hall: A Boy’s Best Friend is His Mother, Father’s A Drunkard and Mother is Dead and The Gypsy’s Warning. Anne Reid acted out the sentimentality and the clear lyrics drew a lot of laughs. Criticized elsewhere, I can’t see why. Charming and funny and apposite. Anne Reid’s warm portrait of Lady Hunstanton is the centre around which the whole play revolves.

8) Lauryn Redding, Twelfth Night, The Watermill, Newbury

The outstanding role was Lauryn Redding as Sir Toby Belch. Forget whether she was male or female: she played it as the Ringmaster. The Master of Ceremonies. The link. This is a part that so often falls into dull “stage drunk” with dreadful lines,  yet it was the choice role of the theatrical stars of the 1940s and 1950s. Lauryn Redding recaptures that with a relaxed take, heavy on audience interaction. Usually Sir Toby’s lines fall flat next to Sir Andrew Aguecheek, but here they both worked. Both Sir Andrew (Mike Slader) and Orsino (Jamie Satterthwaite) are tall and thin, which was visually interesting. A very funny Sir Andrew. And she plays double bass.

9)  Lucy Ellison in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht, Donmar Warehouse

Lucy Ellinson plays Giri, the Goering character as a man, and is physically as far from fat Hermann the German as you can get. But she had that constant mocking, manipulative role, and was the chief “audience worker” too, a role she takes easily.

10) Alexandra Gilbraith as Laurence, The Lie by Florian Zeller. Menier Chocolate Factory

'The Lie' Play performed at the Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre, London, UK

Laurence (Alexandra Gilbraith) & Paul (Alexander Hanson)

SET DESIGN

Soutra Gilmour – Twelfth Night, National Theatre,/ My Brilliant Friend Parts 1 & 2,

Twelfth Night, National Theatre,

My Brilliant Friend Parts 1 & 2, The Rose Kingston

Both plays had flexible, mobile designs.  She also did the dire Romeo & Juliet at The Globe, but two out of three isn’t bad.

RUNNER-UP
Easily the best looking set was by Simon Higlett for  Twelfth Night, RSC 2017   it was incredibly detailed and beautiful BUT the set changes slowed the action badly.

Twelfth Night, RSC 2017

COSTUME DESIGN

Ti Green / Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe

DIRECTOR

Emma Rice – Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Globe, Tristan & Yseulde, Romantics Anonymous

THREE plays that made my ratings? There can’t be any question.

THEATRE OF THE YEAR

1)The Swan at the RSC. Everything was superb. Not a dull moment, in fact better than the main theatre next door.

2) The Globe had some of the very best moments (Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Boudica, Tristan & Ysolde) and also some of the worst (Romeo & Juliet, King Lear). Artistic director Emma Rice for three 5 star reviews from me.

3) The Young Vic with such varied stagings of Yerma, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Life of Galileo is a contender.

THEN …

I think the Royal Shakespeare Theatre was in error in putting everything into the Rome Season. Not my favourite plays at all, though all had were brilliantly done.

Not Chichester, the winner of the last few years. They had moments … particularly The Norman Conquests trilogy, Forty Years On and Quiz. The “big” musical was Fiddler On The Roof and was highly-acclaimed. I just hate the music so intensely I couldn’t face going. The other musical Caroline or Change got great reviews, but we disliked it.

Bath’s summer season had only one play we wanted to book.

For physical surroundings and comfort however, the perennial winners, Chichester Festival Theatre and Salisbury Playhouse are joined by the newcomer, The Bridge.

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      • Ex machina
      • Exodus: Gods and Kings
      • Furry Vengeance
      • Gambit
      • Get Back (Part 1)
      • Get Back (Part 2)
      • Get Back (Part 3)
      • Gravity 3D
      • Greed
      • Hail Caesar!
      • Hanna
      • High Rise
      • Horrible Bosses
      • Hostiles
      • House of Gucci
      • How To Build A Girl
      • How To Train Your Dragon
      • Inception
      • Inside Llewyn Davis
      • Inside Out
      • Invictus
      • Jane Eyre
      • Jason Bourne
      • Jersey Boys
      • Joy
      • Jurassic World
      • Jurassic World: Dominion
      • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
      • King Charles III – TV version
      • Knight and Day
      • La La Land
      • Les Misérables
      • Little Joe
      • Love and Mercy
      • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
      • Made in Dagenham
      • Mank
      • Misbehaviour
      • Missing Link
      • Mothering Sunday
      • Mr Turner
      • Mr. Holmes
      • Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
      • Munich – The Edge of War
      • Nebraska
      • News of The World
      • Nightwatching
      • Noah
      • Nomadland
      • Once Were Brothers
      • One Day
      • Our Man in Havana
      • Outlander
      • Paddington
      • ParaNorman
      • Passengers
      • Passing
      • Peterloo
      • Philomena
      • Puss in Boots
      • Rebecca
      • Reds 2
      • Respect
      • Rocketman
      • Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
      • Saving Mr Banks
      • Selma
      • Sex Education (Netflix)
      • Sex, Chips and Rock ‘n’ Roll
      • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
      • Shrek Forever After
      • Shutter Island
      • Source Code
      • Star Trek Into Darkness
      • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
      • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
      • Suite Française
      • Summer in February
      • Tangled!
      • Testament of Youth
      • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
      • The Book of Life 3D
      • The Book Thief
      • The Conspirator
      • The Debt
      • The Deep Blue Sea
      • The Dig
      • The Disaster Artist
      • The Duke
      • 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 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)
      • 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
        • 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 2002
        • Bob Dylan 2006
        • Bob Dylan 2017
        • Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
        • Brian Wilson
        • 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
        • 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 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 …
      • A Fishy Story
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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?
    • 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
      • 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
      • 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
      • 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 2107
      • 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
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • 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
      • 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
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • 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
      • 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 – 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
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • South Pacific
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • 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
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • 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 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 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 – 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
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • 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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