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MUCH ADO ABOUT THE LOVELY RSC
I must confess to a dastardly crime against the Theatre, or myself, in not staying for the second half of Loves Labours Lost at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Perhaps it was the difficulty of the play,...
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MEETING IVANA TRUMP
I met Ivana Trump once, it was in a little London art gallery, I think Cork Street, and remember well wondering about this botoxed, attractive, semi glamorous Eastern European woman and how celebrity,...
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A FAIL OF TWO CITIES – REVIEW
It’s heart may be in the best of places, but it’s only that magical Open Air setting that just about saves Matthew Dunster’s adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities from being the worst of times. Three...
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JO AllAN PR, REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR AND WHY THEATRES START TO HANG THEMSELVES!
If the terrible production of a Tale of Two Cities is anything to go by (review below), something is wrong at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. My own personal experience of it was not just having to...
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A LITTLE CHAT WITH MATTHEW DUNSTER AND ONE UP FOR THE GLOBE
Well, Matthew Dunster redeemed himself for me last night, after his brutalization of Dickens at Regent’s Park Open Air, with his triumphant direction of Much Ado About Nothing at The Globe. So, after...
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MICHELLE TERRY COMES TO THE GLOBE, AMID THE SILENT TEMPEST!
Well, when Press people suddenly disappear, and there has been long standing controversy about the resignation of the Globe’s Artistic Director Emma Rice too, who goes to The Old Vic, even coming fresh...
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KING LEAR – REVIEW
Nancy Meckler’s quirky production of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy at The Globe somehow fails to reach the heights of Kevin Mcnally’s deeply moving and highly original portrayal of King Lear. In a...
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WAITING FOR GODOT – REVIEW – A VERY WORTHY HOMECOMING
This is a beautiful little production of one of the seminal plays of the Twentieth Century, the programme probably rightly claims changed the face of theatre forever, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for...
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A FAREWELL LETTER TO SIR PETER HALL – RIP
Dear Sir Peter, I wrote you a personal letter over 30 years ago, you were kind enough to reply to, and so generously to say that it was one of the most acute you’d ever read on Shakespearean acting...
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BOUDICA – REVIEW
“By Jupiter’s arsehole”, but I came out of the first half of Tristan Bernay’s new play at The Globe, Boudica, feeling confused. Was this a masterstroke, to commission a bold new work with such obvious...
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