High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
Krapp’s Last Tape Olivia Hurton 31/05/2026Beckett was surely having fun when he conceived of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958). He christened his titular character with a...
Reviewers Rating Dark of the Moon Julie Peakman 27/05/2026The original version of this production was a play first performed in 1942 at the University of Iowa and then...
Purcell, The Musical Tim Hochstrasser 24/05/2026Barnes Green on a lovely Spring evening is a fine setting for an evening of Purcell. This week at the...
Dido & Aeneas Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2026In his excellent programme note Michael Burden points out that we know very little about the origins and performance circumstances...
Reviewer's rating A Tale of Two Cities Jad Adams 22/05/2026There are problems with adaptations of Dickens which are hard to surmount. His novels were published serially so their structure...
Quartet in Autumn Julie Peakman 21/05/2026 Barbara Pym’s novels are always particularly heart-warming, if a little sad. Author Samantha Harvey has successfully adapted the book...
Reviewer's rating Churchill’s Urinal Jad Adams 20/05/2026Rosie Holt brightened the Covid years with her social media posts as an unconsciously self-satirising Tory lady. With her sleek...
1536 Olivia Hurton 14/05/2026Who, as a child, did not skip around the playground after history lessons chanting, ‘Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived’?...
