Friday, September 22, 2017
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS HERE, TOO, ARE TEARS FOR THE MISFORTUNES OF TROY While there are many excellent reasons to read Virgil’s Aeneid from cover to cover, more than once, the fourth book …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:28AMThursday, September 21, 2017
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS CLASS CIVIL WAR AT THE RSC Coriolanus doesn’t often hit the modern stage: its plot, a hymn to the necessary evil of educated patrician privilege in order to provide …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48PMMonday, September 18, 2017
PEACE IN THEIR TIME…HOW TO DO IT This is a three-hour historical political play about Middle East negotiations in the 1990s: and it is absolutely thrilling. Pins you to your seat wi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:45PMFriday, September 15, 2017
CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS DREAMS COMING TRUE IN MEDIEVAL NORFOLK In Norfolk, we tend to be quietly, fondly proud of our surroundings – with an emphasis on ‘quietly.’ The tradition of Norf…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:50PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
A PSYCHOTIC SAMSON AND HIS WOMEN “There is no such thing as the imagination” says August Strindberg indignantly. “Things are real or they are not.”. Right now, holed up in a s…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:54PMTHE CABMAN’S PROGRESS It couldn’t be better placed, here in the arches below Charing Cross station. Under the venerable rules of London licensed cabs – dating back to th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:56AMFriday, September 8, 2017
HARRIDAN OR HEROINE..? The feminist “Bechdel Test” for fiction says that there must be conversations between two women which are not about men. John Patrick Shanley’s tig…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:22PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
THE BAD BOY WE NEEDED ONCE , AND STILL DO The corpse is the talking point and to some extent the star. Certainly Anah Ruddin, hopping out of the coffin spry as a fox for…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:48AMThursday, August 24, 2017
SUICIDE, SADNESS, SNIPING AND SUPPER It often puzzles me why sharp little stage gems like this don’t get pounced on by TV, – notably the BBC – instead of commissio…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:11PMTuesday, August 22, 2017
A PRIMITIVE AWAKENING It is dark. An earth floor, plank stable door , murky pond. Sometimes a candle is lit, but Soutra Gilmour’s set remains tenebrous , primitive. A wom…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:13PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
GUEST CRITIC LUKE JONES HUNGERS BUT DOESN’T GET A BYTE I’ll give them this; it’s timely. After the violence in Charlottesville, we’ve all been asking what on e…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:20AMFriday, August 18, 2017
A DELICATE TREASURE Rarely seen, half-forgotten, Githa Sowerby’s 1924 play is sharp, entertaining, truthful and elegant: Richard Eyre’s direction respects it with delicate …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:11AMThursday, August 17, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI MARVELS AT MARIANNE VIDAL Aylin Bozok’s productions of French opera for Grimeborn have all been marked by their elegance, restraint and psychological intens…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:02PMThursday, August 10, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS THE ROYAL TREATMENT AT GRIMEBORN If you fancy being entertained like a French king, head to Grimeborn for Lully’s Armide. Lully’s artistic monopoly o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:48AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
GUEST CRITIC TOM HOLLOWAY WISHES FOR AN UPDATE.. Originally debuting eight years ago at the Bush Theatre, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia is a story of intergenerationa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:31AMSaturday, August 5, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI GETS NUTTIN’ MUCH FROM GRIMEBORN’S REDUCTION OF GERSHWIN My suspicions should have been aroused by the fact that there was no programme for Porgy …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:44PMGUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI WISHES SOMETHING ELSE WOULD DISAPPEAR AT GRIMEBORN The poems which inspired the mysterious song cycle Diary of One Who Disappeared first appeared anonymously …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:19AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
PRETTY MUCH A BOOJUM I must admit I yearned towards this production – for 4 years old upwards, though there were some younger infants having a hell of a good time, even without …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:52AMThursday, July 27, 2017
MICHAEL ADAIR, 25 ¾ , APPROPRIATELY TAKES OVER AND WRITES.. Before The Inbetweeners, the most accurate reflection of the total embarrassment of teenage life in Britain wa…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:56AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
BOB AND CONOR: A NEW DIRECTION HOME… Bob Dylan songs – from each of six decades – woven into a musical by Conor McPherson? At Dylan’s own suggestion? What? But …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:59PMA COSMIC CLASH OF PHYSICS AND FAMILY Ah, now this is what the National Theatre is for1 A great reckless sprawl of a brand-new play, with spectacular technology, extraordinary design (…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:14AMFriday, July 21, 2017
FINE DINING AND FINANCIAL FURY Piquant idea, to open Oliver Cotton’s play about financial inequality in BBC Salary Embarrassment Week. While the inequity between multi-million…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:51AMThursday, July 20, 2017
With the news of its West End transfer in autumn – well deserved – I finally caught up with INK (reviewed here on opening night by Luke. I agree with his rating of fiv…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:37AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
FROM HIS MOUTH TO GOD’S EAR… We know Omid Djalili best as a comedian: one of our few Iranian standups. Great timing and great heart, a good Fagin but comparatively …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:14PMWednesday, July 12, 2017
NEW GUEST CRITIC THOMAS HOLLOWAY FINDS A NEW MUSICAL Arriving at the Charing Cross Theatre this weekend, in the wake of London’s Pride weekend, is this transfer from the ente…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:43AMMonday, July 10, 2017
A MODERN WORLD GROWING, BENEATH THE PERIWIGS I saw Helen Edmundson’s marvellous RSC history-play about Anne’s short reign some eighteen months ago; the review is here ̵…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:37PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
A GREAT HEART AND TALENT, REMEMBERED WITH LOVE O my days! If you have any feeling for jazz and blues, for women, music or the historic trials and triumphs of black America, don’t …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:31PMMonday, July 3, 2017
THE MIRACLE THAT FAILED The subtitle is “The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee Takes Oral Evidence on Whitehall’s Relationship with Kids’ Company…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:27PMThursday, June 29, 2017
WE DON’T OFTEN REVIEW TWICE, BUT THE SHORTAGE OF YOUNGER AND DIVERSE VOICES MATTERS…SO (ON HER OWN TICKET) JENNIFER-JANE BENJAMIN, A YOUNG LONDONER WHOSE OWN HERITAGE IS NIGE…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 12:11PMWednesday, June 28, 2017
GUEST REVIEWER LUKE JONES GLORIES IN JAMES GRAHAM’S SUN BACKSTORY It’s a solid stunner of a play which has you punching the air for Rupert Murdoch by the interval. Bertie Carvel’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:51AMThursday, June 22, 2017
MILLENIAL LUKE JONES TIRES OF THIS GENDER AGENDA There aren’t many issues in life that haven’t been solved, rationalised or helpfully knocked about by plays. &#…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:33AM 
