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Titus Andronicus – RSC 2017

Titus Andronicus
By William Shakespeare

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rear: Titus, front: Lavinia, Tamara, Saturninus

Directed by Blanche McIntyre
Designer Robert Innes Hopkins
Music by Tim Sutton

Royal Shakespeare Company
Stratford-upon-Avon

Saturday 26th August 2017  13.15

CAST:

Stefan Adegbola – Aaron
Joseph Adelakun – Mutius
Kristin Atherton – Nurse
Will Bliss – Clown
David Burnett- Quintus
Paul Dodds – Goth
Patrick Drury -Marcus Andronicus
Nia Gwynne – Tamora, Queen of the Goths
Sean Hart- Demetrius
Martin Hutson – Saturninus
Amber James – Goth / Midwife
Tom Lorcan – Matius
Luke McGregor – Chiron
Tom McCall- Lucius
Hannah Morrish – Lavinia
Anthony Ofoegbu – Emilius
Dharmesh Patel – Bassianus
Jon Tarcy – Alarbus
David Troughton – Titus Andronicus
Marcello Walton – Publius

It’s a play I’d always missed out in those “Name every Shakespeare play” games (some) drama students used to play. I was better at naming fifty U.S. States, and often got to forty-six or forty-seven.  Titus Andronicus was down there with Pericles and Troilus & Cressida, the ones that barely registered on the radar, except it had a footnote: weird with cannibalism.  It was popular in its day, but apparently the era of bloody revenge tragedies was the 1590s and by 1614 it was already considered old-fashioned. The programme has notes on George Peele, who probably wrote Act one, Act two, scene one and Act four scene one. Wikipedia (where I got those facts) adds other suggestions that it was earlier than the usual 1592 attribution, and it might even be Shakespeare’s first play.

I haven’t seen so many empty seats at a Stratford matinee before. You’d easily walk in on the day. Bank holiday weekend? Late in the run?  Maybe, but Quentin Letts review notes I have never seen a Stratford theatre so un-full, and that was published 7th July right at the beginning of the run.

The play fell out of favour for centuries until Peter Brooks revived it in 1955. The BBC Shakespeare TV productions left it to #37 out of 37. It has been of greater interest in recent years, most notably in Lucy Bailey’s magnificent Globe productions, playing it as spectacle, in 2006 and 2014.

The rapes, cutting off of tongues and hands, draining bodies of blood like slaughtered pigs, casual murders  – fourteen get killed, without any battle scenes – and finally cannibalism were a problem for earlier audiences. Now we know that’s what happens and worse, which is why the trend (which Lucy Bailey bucked at the Globe) is to draw modern parallels and give it a contemporary setting. Commendably, Blanche McIntyre declined to draw specific parallels but make it a universal “now”  … yes, not even a Trump joke. If only the print programme had been so restrained.

It’s part of the RSC Rome season, so utilises the pillars and steps of Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, but glazes between the pillars, making it look like a modern building, reminding of how many public buildings have a classical theme. Then there’s a black metal security fence shutting off that area from the thrust stage. A lectern and microphone are on the steps.

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The youths assail the fence

We are in Rome in an indefinite time frame … but the Goths invasion sets it near the end of Empire. The play starts here with a pre-show of hooded youths and then looters and police officers crossing the stage, at first with house lights up, in ones and twos with people still coming in to the seats. The police chase and arrest an innocent black guy (prefacing the attitudes in the play to Aaron, the Moor).  Banners read “Austerity Kills”.  That breaks into a dance routine with two gangs and a set of police officers, The Jets and the Sharks whispered my companion, and yes, it was very West Side Story with stunning Bernstein-esque music to match.

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Titus returns from the wars, ashes of his sons in caskets

The youths are supporters of either Saturninus (Martin Hutson) or Bassianus (Dharmesh Patel), the sons of the deceased Emperor. Primogeniture hasn’t been established, so there’s a choice. The two candidates are marked by Saturninus’ sharp electric blue smart suit versus Bassianus’ casual hoodie gear. The tribunes and returning officer scurry about trying to decide what to do, when Titus (David Troughton) arrives, back from the wars, accompanied by a brass uniformed band, well two trumpets, two trombones, drums, cymbals and triangle. His three surviving sons carry the ashes of several deceased ones. Trailing after him are his Goth prisoners, so predictably in Guantanamo overalls. They’re led by Tamara, Queen of the Goths (Nia Gwynne), with her three sons. Titus has one Goth son summarily executed in spite of her pleas. The cycle of revenge is established. Her two other hulking sons are Demetrius (Sean Hart) and Chiron (Luke McGregor).

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L to R: Lavinia (Hannah Morrish), Saturninus (Martin Hutson), Titus Andronicus (David Troughton)

Titus gets the job of deciding the election, and in spite of a nasty tantrum from Saturninus, who is the first born, chooses him. In return, Saturninus offers to marry Titus’ daughter, Lavinia (Hannah Morrish). But then the nasty new emperor spots Queen Tamara at the side, and decides to do a political switch and marry Tamara instead. As Saturninus is a callow youth, and Tamara has adult sons, we can deduce that she is far older than him, but a particularly sexy woman … the casting failed to reflect that age gap. Bassianus decides to nip off with Lavinia, and her brothers intervene to let them, one of whom then gets shot by Titus for disobedience. Well, when you’ve got twenty-one sons as Titus had, most killed in war, one more or less makes little difference. A few minutes in, and we have two corpses. There’s excellent, amusing games with the mic, with Saturninus summoning Titus to use it …  David Troughton as ever, is superb.

Having been pushed to prominence by Titus, who refused the crown himself because of his age, Saturninus then turns on him and humiliates the family. It was all going extremely well. Sounds, blocking, costumes. What I particularly noted was Paul Dodds as the Returning Officer, back in the glass doorway, muttering fevered instructions into a head mic, reacting to the political drama, being left holding a bunch of flowers, at one point bursting for a pee, iPad in hand, but unable to leave. Silent background acting of the year award for me!

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Demetrius (Sean Hart), Chiron (Luke McGregor) in Goth brotherly play

We discover that Tamara is actually having it off with Aaron, a dastardly Moor (Stefan Adegbola). If you think Othello has race issues, you haven’t seen Aaron. He is a personification of evil and treachery. Aaron knows that Demetrius and Chiron lust after Lavinia (good title for a 60s girl’s name pop song … Lusting for Lavinia). The Demetrius / Chiron bickering fight was extremely well done, and I loved Demetrius’s silent but mouthed “Oh, fuck off!” as he exited.

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Lavinia is captured: Demetrius (Sean Hart), Chiron (Luke McGregor), Tamara (Nia Gwynne), Lavinia (Hannah Morrish)

The three plan to get Bassianus and Lavinia in a quiet place, murder Bassianus, and then rape Lavinia. This is the shock horror scene, though the actual rape happens off stage, she comes on, her hands cut off, her tongue cut out, covered in blood.

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Lavinia (Hannah Morrish) and Bassianus (Dharmesh Patel) before everything goes wrong

We had heard of people fainting (I can see why … it was horrific in detail with her trousers and blood drenched pants around her ankles). Unaccountably someone behind us started snoring loudly during this scene, then left a few minutes later, not to return. I will say that falling asleep and waking to see the bloodied Lavinia must have been one hell of a shock. Anyway, Lavinia is found by her uncle, Marcus Andronicus (Patrick Drury). That’s terribly poignant as he pulls her clothing back up. Troughton’s speech when they meet up is the highpoint of the production.

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Titus (David Troughton) “What shall we do!”

To add to the horror, the Goth Bros frame two of Titus’ sons with the killing, and then the emperor’s hunting party turns up and arrests them. Aaron tricks Titus into believing that if he cuts his own hand off, the sons will be spared. Marcus and the surviving son, Lucius, offer to have their hands cut off instead.

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The amputation scene

The amputation is horrific, because it is undertaken very realistically by two uniformed nurses. I was reminded of Gaddafi’s Libya, which reintroduced amputation for theft, but did it in a hospital under anaesthetic. Is that simply more merciful, or more horrific by mixing medieval barbarism with modern surgery? A brilliant touch here and the trick is performed with skill, so we see his hand in a kidney dish. It almost seems to writhe. Maybe it does. Then the sons heads are delivered to him in blood-drenched plastic bags, as is Titus hand. In a bizarre moment, Lavinia has to carry one off in her teeth. Going back, I saw notes that even in the most dramatic productions, that line could draw OTT laughter. I didn’t hear any.

At the interval, I was mentally choosing between four stars and five stars. I thought it was great … at that point.

The second half perplexed me. We have a domestic scene around a kitchen table with Titus, Marcus, Lucius, Lavinia and Lucius’ son, Lucius jnr. This is vital. The lad has Ovid’s Metamorphisus for homework. Lavinia has an idea … she can point to the rape of Philomela in the book. Marcus covers the table with salt (sand in the text), so she can hold a stick in her stumps and draw the names of her rapists.

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Aaron (Stefan Adegbola ) & Tamara (Nia Gwynne)

We know Titus now seeks revenge. Aaron comes into greater prominence … a Bowdlerized and popular 19th century adaptation had made him the central character. Tamara’s baby has been delivered and is black. Aaron resists suggestions to do away with the child, and instead murders the nurse and asks for the midwife to be sent to him too. She will suffer the same fate. A baby swap is organized. Stefan Adegbola was extremely good in the role. One review questioned the colour blindness … why is everyone against the Moor when two of Titus’ sons are black & Asian? I’m usually sharp on excessive colour blindness, but it was fine … Titus had twenty-one sons (let alone how many daughters) so we assume he had had multiple wives in his travels. A mild cop-out, is that if you’re going for modern dress and you need an evil Arab character in 2017 … well, OK, I’d’ve copped out of that possibility too. Aaron gets almost the last line of the play, delivered perfectly with enormous power here:

If one good deed in all my life I did,
I repent it to my very soul.

That is so strong, because in such a world as that of the play, what else makes sense? Otherwise, it’s a play devoid of memorable quotes.

Then it all went pear-shaped for me. Titus is feigning madness so as to lure Saturninus and Tamara to dinner. The Andronicus family (sorry, calling them the Andronici in a review is too precious) appear in toy grey plastic breastplates, and toy bows are distributed. Funny? I didn’t hear anyone laugh. It was a desperately bad idea. Dire in concept, dire in execution, undermining all the mood that had been built up. Then we have Tamara dressed as a goddess talking to a naked Titus who’s in a cardboard box, accompanied by Chiron and Demetrius with stockings over their heads. I couldn’t believe how much these two scenes destroyed the production.

OK, not all agree with me. Michael Billington in The Guardian said:

It is the clash between a discredited militaristic imperialism and a new barbaric individualism that fuels a production full of witty touches: I liked how the messenger Titus uses to send a missive to the emperor works for a firm called Deliveroma.

I considered it neither witty, nor funny. Just another dud clown scene that really should have been cut. Even worse, then Saturninus appears in Superman jim-jams. Martin Hutson is a fabulous actor who has not only had a magnificent season at Stratford, but who created a credible vicious twitchy Saturninus, yet after all that work, he is given a downright daft costume for a cheap laugh. Which it totally failed to get.

Actually, the best comic acting in Part Two was Anthony Ofoegbu as Emilius, the constantly worried messenger and equerry.

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They managed to claw back drama with the deaths of Demetrius and Chiron, hoisted upside down in chains, throats slit so Lavinia can collect the blood in a bowl.  Black pudding’s on the menu. I didn’t envy them being hoisted the height of the auditorium by their ankles.

The memorable scene is where Titus in chef’s gear serves Goth-son pie to Saturninus and  Tamara. Nice touches.  Especially Marcus quickly giving Lucius salad instead. The one big laugh from the additions was David Troughton picking up the serving spoon as a phone and saying “Don’t call me at work…”  Then the ending is too drawn out, though Lucius’s final speech into the mic is well-judged and cleverly done.

There were a lot of references or ideas from other recent productions. The two falsely-accused dead sons become characters in the capture of Demetrius and Chiron. Then they spend several minutes hanging on the fencing grill, just like McIntyre’s Two Noble Kinsmen last year. The dead assemble to watch the action, one of several ideas the RSC has re-used. Having Demetrius and Chiron in swimming costumes with a pool? The National Theatre’s Twelfth Night this year.

I have a current knee problem. I watched Troughton getting up and down and standing and thought his “painful knee acting” was perfectly executed. My companion thought he shared my knee problem. I disagree, he’d never have got through the play if he had.

If you are bringing the play up to date, then you have to take the subject matter seriously. Yet no one except Uncle Marcus has any sympathy with Lavinia, and Titus ends up with doing an honour killing, in all but name. At times it seemed they were serious, but cheap laughs undermined any serious intent and left me wondering why it was swinging about stylistically. Yes, you can play it for gory laughs, as Pulp Fiction-The Pantomime. Or you can regard it as horrific. They fail to juggle both.

Overall? I’m with Domenic Cavendish and Quentin Letts on three stars. Several performances within it are 4 to 5 star … Troughton and Hutson both clear fives. As is the music.

But those silly dire would-be-funny scenes in Part Two are a one star, and a failure to commit to a definite interpretation screwed it for me.

***

LENGTH

The cast list said 2 hours 45 minutes plus 20 minutes interval. I reckon the pre-show was under way by 1.12. We stood up at 4.32. That’s three hours playing time. Too long. A LOT of stuff in the second half could and should have been cut. Did it grow in length in production? Well, reviews from early July say “3 hours 10 minutes including interval” so it has added ten minutes.

MUSIC

Suffice it to say, I bought the Soundtrack CD in the interval. Mind you, last year these instant OST CDs were a fair £5. This year they’re £8, which for 24 minutes is a silly price. At £5 it’s an impulse purchase. At £8, you stop and think. Bad pricing decision.

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WHAT THE CRITICS SAID

5
Fiona Mountford, Evening Standard *****

4
Michael Billington, The Guardian ****

Blanche McIntyre’s striking new production confirms what many of us have long thought: that Shakespeare’s goriest play is also a masterly study of the nature of grief. Even the decision to play it in modern dress is justified by the fact that the play is not about a historical Rome but about a civilisation in terminal decline.

Dominic Maxwell, The Times ****

The first half is often plain nasty, but the second half here takes us somewhere inventive and grimly funny

Natasha Tripney, The Stage ****

Shakespeare’s messy and excessive early play, Titus Andronicus, poses a number of problems for directors. Tonally, it’s all over the place, at once horrific and absurd. Blanche McIntyre’s typically scrupulous production, the third instalment in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Rome season, strives to be both – and succeeds.

3
Domenic Cavendish, Telegraph ***

Titus is hardly Shakespeare’s finest hour (TS Eliot thought it “one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written”) but there are times when Troughton appears trapped in a patchy, slightly studenty production of an iffy play. Which isn’t quite as it should be.

Quentin Letts, Daily Mail ***

Director Blanche McIntyre, in her leaden way, is suggesting that today’s political uncertainties are mirrored in Shakespeare’s play. A less didactic director would let us work that out for ourselves.

Ian Shuttleworth, Financial Times ***

OTHER VERSIONS OF TITUS ANDRONICUS on this blog:

The Globe, 2014, directed by Lucy Bailey

BLANCHE McINTYRE
The Two Noble Kinsmen, RSC 2016
Noises Off, Nuffield, Southampton, 2016
As You Like It, Globe 2015
Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, Brighton, 2015
The Comedy of Errors, Globe 2014
The Seagull, Headlong / Nuffield 2013

Many of the cast appear in this season’s other ROME plays:

Julius Caesar, RSC 2017
Antony & Cleopatra, RSC 2017

DAVID TROUGHTON
The Shoemaker’s Holiday, RSC
King Lear, RSC 2016

MARTIN HUTSON
Julius Caesar, RSC 2017 (Cassius)
Antony & Cleopatra, RSC 2012 (Caesar)

NIA GWYNNE
King Lear, RSC 2016, Goneril
Henry IV Parts I & II, RSC 2015

DHARMESH PATEL
Julius Caesar, RSC 2017
Antony & Cleopatra, RSC 2017
Cymbeline, Wanamaker Playhouse 2015 (Soothsayer, Philario)
The Tempest, Wanamaker Playhouse 2015 (Ferdinand)
Two Gentlemen of Verona, Wanamaker Playhouse 2016 (Proteus)

 

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