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Twelfth Night – RSC 2017

Twelfth Night
By William Shakespeare

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publicity photo: Kara Tointon as Olivia, Ade Edmondson as Malvolio

Directed by Christopher Luscombe
Designed by Simon Higlett
Music Nigel Hess

Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Stratford-upon-Avon, Friday 10th November 2017 19.30

CAST
Esh Alladi – Sebastian
Nicholas Bishop – Orsino
Tom Byrne – Valentine
Sally Cheng – Kitchen maid
Michael Cochrane – Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Adrian Edmondson – Malvolio
James Cant – Police inspector / Manservant / Footman
Dinita Gohil- Viola
John Hodgkinson – Sir Toby Belch
Beruce Khan – Feste
Verity Kirk – parlour maid
Luke Latchman – Curio
Vivien Parry – Maria
Joseph Brown – Footman / Police Officer / Station porter
Giles Taylor- Antonio
Kara Tointon- Olivia
Sarah Twomey – Fabia
Jamie Tyler – sea captain / police officer / station master

2017, the year of Twelfth Nights, started with The National Theatre production, then The Watermill Theatre did it and toured it, and The Globe did a fabulous modern version, directed by Emma Rice, which I saw twice. This was the most eagerly awaited of the lot following Christopher Luscombe’s magnificent Love’s Labours Lost / Love’s Labour’s Won  (aka Much Ado About Nothing) pairing at the RSC in 2014, which was reprised in Chichester in 2016. The big name is Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio here, with Kara Tointon as Olivia. Both are best known for TV roles. The Young Ones, The Comic Strip and Bottom for Adrian Edmondson who we saw on stage in Neville’s Island and in Bottom in a huge hall. It was way better live than the version on TV. More recently he played totally straight in War and Peace, and as the father in the 2017 film Interlude in Prague along with Aneurin Barnard as Mozart (Dunkirk). 

For regular theatre goers, the big name here would be John Hodgkinson as Sir Toby Belch, who was not only in Luscombe’s Love’s Labours Lost / Love’s Labour’s Won  but in Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen and Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, arguably the best two modern plays of the last few years. A star Sir Toby is unusual casting in recent years, though in the past Sir Toby Belch was the name role in the play rather than Malvolio. In virtually every production I’ve seen, Sir Andrew Aguecheek is the better role … better lines, better action.

After we have sat waiting for the start, admiring Orsino’s house with its pre-Raphaelite paintings, the beginning of the play is extremely low key. No shipwreck, no sound effects even, but we start with the post shipwreck scene. We just have Viola, in a blue sari, and the sailor at the front of thestage with Orsino’s house faded into darkness. It’s “lines only” to explain the shipwreck. Also, they go off stage to change clothes. Then the light comes up on Orsino.

Orsino (Nicholas Bishop) and Curio (Luke Latchman). The painting on the actual stage is exactly as Curio looks (this pubicity photo must be earlier)

The major thing here, as at the National production earlier in the year, is the no-expenses spared set and costumes. It’s also a large cast. It is set in the 1890s, the time of aestheticism. Orsino is a would-be pre-Raphaelite painter, first seen painting Curio, clad only in a skimpy loincloth, as an archer. Orsino appears to be bisexual too. Antonio is no longer a piratical sea-captain – they drop the line about the sea fight which means he shouldn’t be risking appearing in Illyria. He is now an Oscar Wilde character sporting a green carnation, so we must assume his past crime in Illyria was sexual. Well, that’s topical. Good job it’s not at the Old Vic.  Antonio’s interest in Sebastian always had a homosexual undercurrent, but here it is overt. The Late Victorian artistic world ambience reminded me strongly of the RSC’s Winter’s Tale from 2013.

Th reference is Victorian interest in the Indian empire. As in virtually every production, they mark out Viola and Sebastian as twins and importantly as foreigners by using ethnicity: in this case, they’re both Indian. Feste, Olivia’s fool, is also Indian, as the programme notes, in a fashionable touch of Victoria & Abdul.  It’s a good choice for the Victorian era and gives us glorious costumes. Bravely they stick to it … the casting is not colour blind. I think that’s the right decision. It would lose its effect if there were Afro-Caribbean and Indian actors elsewhere in the cast. Viola and Sebastian are easily confused because both look alien in the context. I noticed they matched Sebastian’s hair at the back with Viola’s too. Let’s note (as on my previous reviews) that for most of the play, Viola is posing as a boy called Cesario. While we often hear the name Cesario, we never know her actual name is Viola until the last few minutes.

They divide it into Town (Orsino’s palace has a London skyline beyond it) and The country (Olivia’s house). Olivia’s house has an exterior – a large glass conservatory worthy of Kew Gardens, and a richly detailed interior. It also variously has an orchard and a boot room and a garden area with shed for Malvolio’s prison cell.

Town and country are connected by rail, and we have not one but two railway station sets. That’s how Cesario travels between Orsino’s place and Olivia’s. It’s used very well when we first see Sebastian at the station about to board a train, and Antonio decides to risk the law of Illyria (pending harassment charges perhaps?) and follow him. Then it segues into Cesario off to catch the train pursued by Malvolio with Olivia’s ring. That station is basically a backdrop. But later we have the Station Platform 4 plus an organ grinder, food vendor and various others. Like the National Theatre’s Triumph TR4 plus scooter in Twelfth Night earlier in the year, a little Puritanical bell rings in me: wouldn’t it be better to use this vast expenditure by taking productions to more provincial theatres? Too much conspicuous consumption at the RSC and National, while poor provincial theatres struggle to keep afloat. OK, this will surely move to London so they will get plenty of mileage out of the elaborate sets, but even so … OK, the set design is brilliant, stellar, memorable, beautiful. Ah, there’s always a “but.” See later.

Malvolio (Adrian Edmondson)

Last time the RSC did Twelfth Night they cast a first rate serious actor, Jonathan Slinger, trying to be funny as Malvolio. It didn’t really work. Many have maintained that great comic actors easily become great serious actors, but it very rarely happens the other way. Adrian Edmondson is a great comic actor, and indeed can play both straight and tragic with effect. Compare Lenny Henry.  Adrian Edmondson for the most part gives us what the text suggests: an uptight, unpleasant Puritan amid Olivia’s roistering household, and against Orsino’s sophisticated aesthetes. He doesn’t milk the laughs early on at all, though there is always something about his face. This is a (surprisingly) serious Malvolio. In an interview he said:

I’m channeling my former house master … at minor public school, Pocklington, near York – who was a very vicious, pompous, unpleasant human being. 
Adrian Edmondson, The Daily Telegraph, 11.11.2017

That’s how he plays it, which is a valid interpretation. I had teachers like that. He’s not unctuous or snooty either. As I’d expected, he finds a different interpretation. Most Malvolios milk the humour more of the time.

Malvolio’s solo spot (Adrian Edmondson)

He is given full rein to work the audience solo after his cross gartered appearance when he does a solo spot with song which gets repeated. It’s the best thing in the production actually, and it’s just one guy on stage in a funny, but not hilarious, costume. He could have got equal applause … i.e. a lot … on a bare stage with just a funny hat. At the end of the play, there are no laughs at all in the explanation scene. He makes it poignant.

Malvolio and the letter. Rear, L to R: Sir Andrew (Michael Cochrane), Fabia (Sarah Twomey), Sir Toby (John Hodgkinson)

The scene, or rather THE scene in Twelfth Night that we always love is the letter reading with the conspirators watching behind. This was well plotted. Fabia (replacing Fabio) was Sarah Twomey who was outstandingly good as the Scullery Maid here. The  garden has three statues, two headless, armless and nude, which they stand behind. Then they look over and become the heads and arms, then keep freezing into classical statue poses as they get nearer Malvolio. He started with my favourite line (the C, U … T and P line) but did it fast and unpointed, then the other three repeated it to point it. It didn’t work for me. Better to let Malvolio bring out the joke on his own.  I didn’t mind the repeating, just the initial throwaway.

Pretending to be statues

Feste is always the hardest part to bring off, and I realised what a good idea it was to replace him altogether at The Globe. So here, Feste is Olivia’s Indian servant (Beruce Khan). Trouble is, he’s a modern Indian with an RP accent. If we take this as comedy, I’m afraid you need a touch of Peter Sellers “Goodness Gracious Me” accent, or Michael Bates as Bearer Rangi in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (or even the punkah wallah and char wallah). You really would be in deep trouble and accused of racism if you did that in 2017, and both the examples are now unacceptable … English men playing “funny Indians.” But someone of Indian ethnicity should be allowed to find humour and an Indian accent.

Viola as Cesario (Dinita Gohil) and Olivia (Kara Tointon)

Viola / Cesario and Sebastian are Indian in identical dress. There is a line in the original about them sounding alike as well as looking alike. In the RSC in 2012, both had Irish accents. Here, I was amazed they didn’t have Indian inflections … not the comic one suggested for Feste, but standard educated Indian accents. Sebastian has just a tinge, but Viola none. I also thought she was over-enuciating. We both missed the aspect of “I am a girl dressed up pretending to be a boy” which can be pointed in many ways … sudden change of voice, avoidance of a chest to chest hug, change of gait to a more manly one when she has forgotten. I didn’t feel the Cesario / Antonio kiss had the magnetic chemistry it should. See below – Michael Billington took the opposite view on her Viola.

Kara Tointon’s Olivia is stunning to look at, and is a powerful Olivia. She’s in her mid-30s, and I’m reminded of Peter Hall’s edict quoted elsewhere. The gist is, don’t cast Olivia as a sophisticated beauty (as here), but as a girl emerging into womanhood. Orsino is interestingly sexually ambivalent.

Sir Toby Belch (John Hio

As to our comic quartet: Sir Toby Belch (John Hodgkinson), Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Michael Cochrane), Maria (Viviene Parry) and Fabia (Sarah Twomey). Elsewhere this year, this quartet have been played younger every time. This production was traditional and older. John Hodgkinson is a tall bloke, and offers a Fallstaffian Sir Toby, which is the way it always used to be played, and would have been in Shakespeare’s day: same actor.  The loud farting early on is in character. He used his height to enormous effect when he lifted Sarah Twomey up to his face level to address her. The thing is, I don’t see Sir Toby as Falstaff. This man is the arch manipulator, gulling Malvolio in one direction, and Sir Andrew in the other. He needs to be an absolute bastard, and I’d have him feigning drunk, not being drunk.

Michael Cochrane is a doddery (though extremely sprightly when need be) Sir Andrew. Vivien Parry gets much humour from a Welsh accent as Maria, and yes, Shakespeare was always fond of getting a laugh from that too. Why does a Welsh accent work? I don’t know, but it does. Katy Owen’s Globe Malvolio was Welsh-accented too. Sarah Twomey was the perfect rural lass. Overall, it was the way of many Twelfth Nights, though not recent ones.

Maria (Vivien Parry, standing) plus the household gather to watch Malvolio’s cross gartered japes

I have to be critical. The whole is off in pace. I don’t know how quite, but it definitely lacks momentum. I’d guess over-attention to the look of it at the expense of the characterisation. As one review says making the same point: this is early. It has a long run ahead and may “bed in” later, but while they’re doing everything “right” there’s a lack of interactive magic. It may come, and I happily expect comments in a month or so saying “How could you say that? It all gelled perfectly last night.” The music by Nigel Hess is superb throughout, as is Simon Higlett’s set design. I think that’s the problem. Set changes are fairly swift and covered by the fantastic swelling music, but inevitably it’s a series of great gaps in the flow of the play.  I kept thinking back to The Globe’s open stage and uninterrupted flow in contrast.

The length was just right: two hours 20 minutes. There were lengthy song sequences from Feste and Malvolio that had been carefully researched … a combination of Elizabethan lyrics and Marie Lloyd era Music Hall tunes. It was heavily cut … they all have been this year. Personally, I’d start cutting with Feste every time WHOEVER is playing it, but Feste seemed to keep a lot of lines.

The other issue is that overall, in spite of the set and costumes to die for, is that it comes across as extremely conventional, and indeed conservative compared to the National’s 2017 version, but even more so compared to Emma Rice’s 1970s disco / Scottish island version at The Globe. The older actors are superb, seen them all before, they’re great … but The Globe and National felt so “young” and exuberant and different. This production came across as staid in comparison. In spite of many magic moments, it simply wasn’t as funny as the other three productions this year. Twelfth Night is not only about humour. You should feel (and perhaps vocalize) an “Ahhh!” when everything is resolved. I didn’t get the Aah! factor in the somewhat drawn out sombre ending.

At the start of the year, looking forward to all four versions, we both fully expected this to be easily the best. Christopher Luscombe’s track record with Love’s Labour’s Lost, Love’s Labour’s Won, While The Sun Shines and Nell Gwynne meant we were convinced this version would outshine the others. It didn’t. For both of us, the best of the year was Emma Rice’s Globe version, followed by the National Theatre version. Frankly, we enjoyed the young cast of actor / musicians at The Watermill more than this. It’s about vibrancy, life, youth. This felt stolid, and while it must be the most beautiful set of the year, and costumes too, the fabulous set impeded the play. Most people haven’t seen four versions this year, and if it’s the only one you’ve seen this year, you will be knocked out by it.

It exploded into life after the curtain calls with the final dance (below) … that should be reprising the liveliness of the play, rather than starting it off.

To my great surprise … only three stars. I’m comforted that my favourite critics, Messrs Billington & Cavendish, awarded the same.

***

Twelfth Night compant

The company in the final dance

MINOR GRIEVANCES

We had booked for Saturday afternoon, so as to drive up and back in a day. The RSC announced that Ade Edmondson would not be doing the Saturday, but well after we had booked. So we had to rebook for Friday night. We could not even get seats together, nor the great seats we had booked for the Saturday. We had to book an overnight hotel not wanting a 145 mile late evening drive. The RSC refunded the £20 price difference in a voucher that can only be used for tickets or membership which I won’t remember to re-use. It should have been a straight credit card refund, or at least a voucher usable on meals or in the shop. Being out the cost of the hotel and an extra restaurant meal, I find the voucher refund miserly.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAID

4
Natasha Tripney, The Stage ****

The early scenes are a bit stodgy and the quality of the performances vary but this is a lavish production – one with West End intent – that balances its silliness and showiness with emotional nuance.

Catherine Vonledebur, What’s On Stage, ****

3

Domenic Cavendish, The Telegraph ***

 There’s something a little self-admiring about this transposition, a feeling that the director is tickling the Merchant Ivories as it were. The lavish country-house settings proved inspired for his superlative Edwardian/Great War Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado. By returning again to a class-bound, hierarchical England, with supportingly evocative lush compositions from Nigel Hess, he’s in danger of looking like a one-trick pony.

Michael Billington, Guardian ***

Dinita Gohil is the male-disguised Viola who occupies pride of place in the languidly luxurious, sexually ambivalent household of Orsino. Gohil, in the best performance of the evening, is a bright-eyed figure who surrenders happily to Orsino’s kisses and who delivers the famous “willow cabin” speech with a level of rapture I have not heard in ages.

Jane Edwardes, Sunday Times, ***

LINKS TO REVIEWS ON THIS BLOG

Many of the cast were in the ETT touring version of Nell Gwynne.

TWELFTH NIGHT ON THIS BLOG

  • Twelfth Night RSC 2012
  • Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012  Mark Rylance (Olivia), Stephen Fry (Malvolio)
  • Twelfth Night- ETT 2014, Brighton Theatre Royal
  • Twelfth Night, National Theatre, 2017
  • Twelfth Night, Watermill, Newbury 2017
  • Twelfth Night, The Globe, 2017
  • Twelfth Night, RSC 2017  
  • Twelfth Night, Young Vic, 2018
  • Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Globe, 2021

CHRISTOPHER LUSCOMBE (director)
Love’s Labour’s Lost– RSC 2014
Love’s Labour’s Won RSC 2014
Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC / Chichester 2016
Much Ado About Nothing, RSC / Chichester 2016
Travels With My Aunt, Chichester 2016
While The Sun Shines,  by Terence Rattigan, Bath 2016
Nell Gwynne, Globe 2015

JOHN HODGKINSON
Love’s Labour’s Lost– RSC 2014 (Don Armado)
Love’s Labour’s Won RSC 2014 (Don Pedro)
Hangmen, by Martin McDonagh, 2015 (Pierrepointe)
Love’s Labour’s Lost, RSC / Chichester 2016 (Don Armado)
Much Ado About Nothing, RSC / Chichester 2016 (Don Pedro)
The Ferryman, by Jez Butterworth, Royal Court, 2017 (Tom Kettle)

MICHAEL COCHRANE
While The Sun Shines,  by Terence Rattigan, Bath 2016 (Duke of Ayr)

NICHOLAS BISHOP
While The Sun Shines,  by Terence Rattigan, Bath 2016 (Lt. Colbert)

VIVIEN PARRY
The Shoemaker’s Holiday by Thomas Dekker, RSC 2015

TOM BYRNE
Echo’s End, Salisbury 2017

SARAH TWOMEY
Platonov, by Chekhov, Chichester 2015
The Seagull, Chichester, Chichester 2015

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      • 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
      • 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
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