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A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare

Screenshot 2019-06-17 at 12.08.53

Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Designed by Bunnie Christie
Choreography by Arlene Philips

Composer Grant Olding

London’s newest theatre (and technically., I’d say the best)

The Bridge Theatre, London
Saturday 22nd June 2019, 14.30

CAST:

Oliver Chris – Oberon / Theseus
Gwendoline Christie – Titania / Hippolyta
Kevin McMonagle – Egeus
David Moorst – Puck / Philostrate

Paul Adeyfa – Demetrius
Tessa Bonhom-Jones – Helena
Isis Hainsworth – Hermia
Kit Young – Lysander

Hammed Animashaun – Bottom
Jermaine Freeman – Flute
Ami Metcalf – Snout
Jamie-Rose Monk – Snug
Felicity Montagu – Quince
Francis Lovehall- Starveling

Charlotte Atkinson – Moth
Chipo Kureya – Peaseblossom
Lennin Nelson-McLure – Mustardseed
Rachel Tolzman – Bedbug
Jay Webb- Cobweb

The space 12-15 minutes before the start. The glass cage has not yet appeared.

One day late … June 22nd. Or rather just half a day after Midsummer Night.

We went in ten or fifteen minutes before the start. They say The Bridge is a totally flexible space. Last time it was a deeply raked proscenium theatre. Now there are two galleries running round four sides over an apparently flat floor, where the “groundlings” are mingling. You can buy a standing ticket for the full excitement. The flat floor must conceal a great deal below. We were seated in the lower gallery as befits our age and knees. They trundle on a large glass box on a plinth, and in it, silent, dressed all in grey, is Hippolyta Queen of the Amazons, captive of Theseus of Athens. She is magnificently Amazonian … Gwendoline Christie from Game of Thrones. She is motionless. She is accompanied by the whole cast as a choir, dressed in grey with white bonnets for the women, echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale. They’re singing some religious sounding stuff.

L to R: Oliver Chris as Theseus, Gwendoline Christie as Hippolyta, Isis Hainsworth as Hermia,  Kevin McConagle as Egeus

The movement stewards are shepherding the audience back to allow a central plinth to rise from the floor, bearing Theseus (Oliver Chris) and Philostrate (David Moorst). Cold, smart suited. Theseus starts his speech in front of the baleful captive eyes of Hippolyta, (wooed by the sword, indeed) when Egeus (Kevin McMonagle) pushes through the crowd and climbs the steps onto the stage, demanding that his daughter, Hermia should marry Demetrius or die. But she loves Lysander- two new satellite plinths slide into view with the young men. As Theseus reels off threats, Hippolyta pushes the palm of her hand against the glass, exuding her sympathy for Hermia …

Yes, it is the most elaborately staged play I have seen outside of the Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. The syle is immersive – and they write in a joke about that for Bottom too. The movement stewards are a major role – and are rightfully called up for encores. They will be shifting and shepherding that live audience while stage areas sink and rise across the flat space.

The Rude Mechanicals L to R: Flute, Bottom, Mistress Quince, Snug, Snout

Next up, the introduction of the Rude Mechanicals, the Athenian workmen preparing a play for the competition to appear in the Theseus-Hippolyta nuptial celebrations. Hammed Animashaun starts it off as Bottom, and ad Mistress Quince (a frequent gender swap) calls up the actors, the ad-libs start. There will be many, but they do point out gender-switching humorously. The main difference is “lion” which we’re accustomed to seeing played by a shy, nervous, tiny person. Here Jamie-Rose Monk swaggers on bum-butting her way though the cast. Big, aggressive, terrifying and very funny.

Now it’s Titania (Gwendoline Christie) who is giving Puck (David Moorst) instructions.

Into the forest … and we start to see the use of the soft trapezes. David Moorst is Puck, one of the best we’ve seen too. This is highly athletic stuff, and all the fairies have circus training. Some of the work on the soft cloth trapezes is first-rate Cirque du Soleil standard – including David Moorst, who we have seen as an actor. He had three months circus training for the role.  The Peter Brooks production fifty years ago changed the way everyone sees the play, and he had introduced trapezes and circus training. The five decades since have seen it become vastly more elaborate.

This is where the reviews start to differ. Some 300 lines of the play have been exchanged between Titania and Oberon.  As usual APB (After Peter Brook), Theseus becomes Oberon, Hippolyta becomes Titania. In this version it will be Oberon who is given the love potion by Puck, now urged on by Titania. It will be Oberon who falls in love with an Ass (i.e. Bottom). Some were confounded, some were outraged. Before we went I thought, ‘Oh, no, not more Globe style gender blind stuff.’ But I was wrong. Both actors remain equally important, but the switch allows “new light through old windows.” It’s not that fashionable 2019 kneejerk gender fluid thing at all. Moreover, it works. It works well.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a robust play. it can take whatever you do with it. This was a different idea, I suspect linked to the casting of Gwendoline Christie, or Brienne of Tarth, more naturally in an active role than a passive one.

Hammed Animashaun as Bottom

The second Rude Mechanicals rehearsal is a feast of ad-libbing and audience interaction and I’m not going to spoil it, but their shock of seeing Bottom with Ass’s ears is timed quite differently. Some reviews mentioned the amount of ad-libbing. That’s what comedians do, and it’s surely what they did in the 16th Century too. It was one of the funniest scenes of the last few years for me.

This is during the interval- not part of the play

Onto the second part … the interval has ten minutes of the fairies doing their full trapeze act above us. Brilliant.  Also we now have a more fixed set of sloping bedsteads (one of which Hermia will leap over, and another which Puck will disappear into in a flash.

We’re into the lovers in the forest. They’re still having fun, as Puck and Titania swing overhead. They pop the love drops over Demetrius and Lysander causing them to snog furiously then as it wears off, staring at each other in shock. Though with some food for thought. They enjoyed seeing that bit of mischief so much that they repeat it with the girls, Hermia and Helena who also fall into a snog. The boys got laughs, the girls got encouraging whoops, and the lads rushed over to watch. We won’t go there. This was NOT a bit of forced LGBT Pride propaganda, it was seen as an instant decision by Puck and Titania to have a bit of fun with these mere mortals.

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In the round indeed. Part two Helena and Demetrius on centre stage and bed. Lysander and Hermia bottomn right 

That Hermia (Isis Hainsworth) v Helena spat (Tessa Bonhom-Jones) is always a marvellous scene, but as Hermia is being restrained she lets out an obscene ad-lib (or rather modern textual addition) that had the audience in tears of laughter, and the light Scots accent helped. All four lovers are entwined on one bed lifted high above the stage (s). The lovers were exactly what you want. Initially I thought Paul Adeyfa as Demetrius and Kit Young as Lysander might look too alike – ethnicity and hair style, but their performances soon differentiated them.

Lysander(Kit Young) restrains Hermia (Isis Hainworth). You’ll have to go to hear what she says.

We need to know what happened to Oberon (Oliver Chris)’s hilarious love scene with Bottom (Hammed Animashaun). Another plinth rises silently into place revealing them in a bubble bath, apparently naked for the scene where the fairies have to scratch his ears etc.  A couple of changed lines here that raised ire from some (e.g. Bottom says to Mustardseed Give me you fist …), but got lots of laughter on the day. They emerge and modesty is protected beautifully in a way that got a huger laugh.

As the spell is removed from Oberon’s eyes, ‘I Can see Clearly Now‘ booms out – the sound system is superb. Then a massive sheet is unfurled and spread over the dancing audience. The idea relates to Slava’s Snow Show where a spider’s web floats over the audience to music. As the play ends a giant moon ball bounces over the audience … another idea from Slava’s Snow Show. And why not reference Slava’s Snow Shoe as well as the Cirque du Soleil? Both are such significant theatrical events that feedback to serious theatre was just waiting to happen. It has. The sheet moves over and disappears and the set has changed. Magic.

L to R Hammed Animashaun as Bottom, Oliver Chris as Oberon, Gwendolen Christie as Titania

The forest over … and back to Athens, and a central platform rises from nowhere. Theseus and Hippolyta are back in hunting clothes with Egeus, and all three have rifles.

The lovers awake … Tessa Bonham Jones as Helena, Isis Hainsworth as Hermia, Kit Young as Lysdander, Paul Adeyfa as Demetrius, confronted the hunting party

The Pyramus and Thisbe play is one where I think I’ve seen every idea, but no, or at least not so elaborately. Philostrate is David Moorst, as usual, doubled with Puck. Philostrate is the compere to announce the four competing entertainments, and four satellite plinths slide up from the floor. It’s done like a talent contest on TV (we loved the second competitor, girls dressed in red balloons popping them with cigarettes.) The Rude Mechanicals are in purple sweatshirts with RUDE MECHANICALS in large white letters on the back.

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They are chosen (reluctantly) … cue talent contest music. It’s the most elaborate I’ve seen that done. It’s a superb Pyramus & Thisbe play but with no costumes, and the only props a laser sword, a torch and two bricks. Virtually every recent one has been more elaborate with funny props and costumes. The three courtly couples are on three plinths, and for a change they keep all the comment lines, then add some, even walking into the scene. When they finish we get a hip-hop routine from the Rude Mechanicals, which gradually the couples join in with.

David Moorst as Puck

Overall- the best staging we’ve seen, and the movement stewards are so integral to shifting so many people around. It ends with a circling dance involving everyone, then the bouncing moon.

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The end: Oberon and Titania dance, watched by Puck. The audience hold hands and circle them.

It’s hard to say “the best” in retrospect, as we’ve seen so many productions. Before I started this blog, we would never miss a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream if we could possibly get there. David Moorst as Puck stands along with Richard McCabe, Lucy Ellison and Katy Owen. The four best Pucks. We’ve not seen a “better” Bottom than Hammed Animashaun.  Others of this quality were Christopher Logan for Headlong and David Troughton for John Caird. Oliver Chris is one of the very best Theseus / Oberon performances. Gwendoline Christie is such a radical Titania that it’s impossible to compare her with (say) the so different Sheridan Smith in the Michael Grandage Season. But they all worked, as did every part. Like the Peter Brooks production, which we saw on tour at Southampton and who waved us all to the car park, they exuded the air of  “a company.”

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The end: the “moon” bounces around the theatre

It is our favourite play. We saw the Peter Brooks production. We saw the John Caird RSC production with Richard McCabe as Puck. Then we saw the RSC Play for A Nation version (twice). We saw the Emma Rice Globe production (twice) plus the TV broadcast, and the DVD. All of those productions defined a 5 star play. Nicholas Hytner’s production at The Bridge Theatre is the most elaborate and also the very best of the lot. I wish I had a sixth star. We’ve already booked to see it again with our older grandkids.

*****

MUSIC CREDITS

They credit two found songs … Beyonce’s Love On Top closes the first half. Then there’s Dizee Rascal’s Bonkers and Florence & The Machines Only If For A Night. They don’t credit I Can See Clearly Now and I’m still wondering whether it was the Johnny Nash version or Jimmy Cliff’s later one. They don’t credit Je t’aime either – Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg.

SECOND VIEWING

Saturday 27th July 2019, 14.30

Five weeks on. Even better.

  •  Gwendoline Christie as Hippolyta in a cage did not come on until the start: 14.30. Was she fed up of standing in frozen position in the cage for ten minutes or more? The pre-show choral singing was still around 12 minutes.
  • It was 11 minutes longer – 2 hours 51 minutes including interval, rather than 2 hours 40 minutes as on the Bridge website. Much of that was the amount of excellent business added to the Pyramus & Thisbe play, especially Theseus- Bottom interaction.
  • The lovers had improved – not that there was anything wrong before. Confidence? Whatever it gave an added swing to all their work.
  • Oberon got the “immersive” line but Bottom explained to The Wall that “it’s in the round” and moved her physically. We both thought that was switched. Oliver Chris, David Moorst and Hammed Animashaun have “licences to ad lib” but the extended Pyramus & Thisbe play had them all doing more. We’d forgotten The Wall’s exasperated oath.
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  • 27th July
  • At the end, when the balls bounced around, Oberon, Titania and Aegeus made their retreat. The younger cast members, led by Puck stayed in the crowd in the pit dancing with the people with tremendous enthusiasm. I guess both Oliver Chris and Gwendolen Christie are “autograph and selfie famous” so know not to be there!
  • Still the best version ever. We’ll see the live to cinema broadcast too.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID:

I don’t usually comment on people’s opinions, but here I will. I understand 5 stars, I understand 4 stars, I understand Quentin Letts’ 2 stars- he really took against it, and one of his qualities as a reviewer is being unafraid to swim against the current (He gave Bitter Wheat 4 stars when his co-critics mainly chose 2 stars). I cannot understand 3 stars. This production demands a strong response, be it 5 or 2. But I am reminded that the play is NOT in Billington’s 101 Greatest Plays, and a lot of dull stuff is. It’s Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, joint ‘greatest play’ with Hamlet.

5 star
Domenic Cavendish, Telegraph *****

I’d go so far as to say that this is the most accomplished Shakespeare production of (Hytner’s)  I’ve ever encountered. True, I took the standing option (auditorium seats are available) so my pulse quickened partly by dint of being caught up in the riotous mêlée. But in its mixture of serious insight and frisky innovation, by-the-book straightness and surprise queerness, it’s not just a show for (almost) all ages but one that deserves to be talked about for years to come.

Kate Kellaway, Observer *****

Designer Bunny Christie is fearlessly in charge of levitating, ivy-entwined brass beds that alarm as much as any circus act. And there is no shortage of actual circus acts as sleazily glamorous aerialists play the fairies and sensuously doodle in the air, dropping from their cloth perches like hieroglyphs – a wonder to behold.

Henry Hitchins, Standard *****

Poking fun at the vogue for immersive theatre while also embracing the genre’s potential for frenetic playfulness and immediacy, it’s funny, sexy and romantic.

Time Out Users *****

4 star
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out ****

Even if you ignore all the bells, whistles and man-snogs, the fact of the matter is that Hytner has assembled a preposterously good comedy cast. For me, Animashaun’s guileless, enthusiastic Bottom was probably man of the match, but Chris’s sensitive Oberon, Christie’s ethereal Hippolyta/Titania and Moorst’s twitchily anarchic Puck were all tip-top, as were the marvellously detailed smaller performances from the fairies, lovers and Mechanicals. It is quite something when a production can have an actor as good as Felicity Montagu – aka Alan Partridge’s PA Lynn – in the relatively minor role of a luuvie-ish take on the Mechanicals’ leader Peter Quince. 

Dominic Maxwell, The Times ****
Paul Taylor, Independent ****
Allanah Dorli Jones, Londonist ****
Stuart King, London Box Office ****
Cindy Marcolina, Broadway World ****

3 star
Michael Billington, The Guardian ***

Titania speaks lines normally assigned to Oberon while Oberon speaks hers. It is a startling reversal that has loss as well as gain. The bonus is that it heightens the comedy to see Oberon falling head over heels for an ass: the sight of Chris lasciviously nibbling the erect ears of the translated Bottom is one I shan’t soon forget. The payoff comes when, returning to Theseus, Chris is forced to soften his sexual authoritarianism by recalling his dalliance as Oberon with a male donkey. But, while the role reversal gives Titania/Hippolyta unusual agency, it has perverse side-effects. The great speech in which the fairy queen laments the death of her votaress sounds odd coming from a man. I’d also argue that you don’t need to fiddle with the text for the play to offer a critique of male power hunger.

Natasha Tripney, The Stage ***
Mark Shenton, London Theatre ***
Ben Dowell, Radio Times ***
Daisy Bowie-Sell, What’s On Stage

2 star
Quentin Letts, Sunday Times **

Those who cherish A Midsummer Night’s Dream for its bucolic escapism should look away now. Nicholas Hytner’s production is in-your-face millennial, mucking about with the text, swapping Oberon and Titania’s lines, and suggesting that Bottom wants one of the forest fairies to come and give him a seeing-to. Ho, ho, ho, went the first-night groundlings, for this show repeats the promenade staging that brought Hytner his first success at the Bridge with Julius Caesar. Confronted by hip-hop, a clap along and facetious off-script asides, these audience members fell in line, giggling at the introduction of gay splicings among thefour young lovers.

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OTHER PRODUCTIONS OF A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Headlong 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
  • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013, Bristol
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016, ‘A Play for the Nation’ at Stratford (February)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited Stratford, (July)
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV SCREEN version 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath, 2016
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Vic 2017
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watermill, Newbury 2018
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Watermill on Tour, Poole 2019
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare, Wimborne 2019

NICHOLAS HYTNER
Young Marx, by Richard Bean & Clive Coleman, Bridge Theatre 2017
Othello, National Theatre, 2013
Hamlet, National Theatre, 2010
People, by Alan Bennett, National Theatre on tour 2013

OLIVER CHRIS
Young Marx, by Richard Bean & Clive Coleman, Bridge Theatre 2017
King Charles III, TV version, 2017
Twelfth Night, National Theatre 2017
Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word, Chichester 2016
King Charles III, 2014
One Man Two Guv’nors 2013

DAVID MOORST
First Light, Chichester 2016
Peterloo (FILM)

KIT YOUNG
Macbeth, Wanamaker Playhouse 2018

 

 

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      • 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
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      • 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
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      • Young Chekhov Season
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      • 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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