Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christoper Oram, Gawn Grainger, Greta Saatchi, John Osborne, Jonah Hauer-King, Kenneth Branagh, Rob Ashford, Sophie McShera on 11/09/2016| Leave a Comment »
Review of The Entertainer, by John Osborne. (FOLLOW LINK) The last play in the Kenneth Branagh Company season, starring Kenneth Branagh as music hall comedian Archie Rice, a part often considered Sir Laurence Olivier’s greatest role. So how did he do? Five stars for us.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Damsel in Distress, Chichester Festival Theatre, Christopher Oram, George Gershwin, Ian Hay, Isla Blair, Jeremy Sams, Nicholas Farrell, P.G. Wodehouse, Richard Fleeshman, Rob Ashford, Sally Ann Triplett, Summer Strallen on 20/06/2015| 1 Comment »
Review of A Damsel in Distress at Chichester. (reviewed at link) Take a 1919 P.G. Wodehouse novel, its 1928 adaptation into a stage play, add the George & Ira Gershwin songs for the 1938 Fred Astaire film … and re-invent it entirely for 2015, with Jeremy Sams doing the book.
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