The Shoemaker’s Holiday or The Gentle Craft Mel Cooper 07/01/2015n a production that is consistently energetic, brilliantly designed to interest the eye and convey the era in which the...
The Christmas Truce Mel Cooper 20/12/2014’m afraid that mine has to be a dissenting voice. By and large, people have been raving about this show....
Dirty Dancing Mel Cooper 14/12/2014he Christmas Show at the New Theatre in Oxford this year is not a traditional Pantomime, nor is it a...
Beauty and the Beast Mel Cooper 14/12/2014ince the days when Joan Littlewood resurrected the Theatre Royal at Stratford East after World War II, this theatre has...
Reviewer's Rating Love’s Labours Lost/Love’s Labours Won (Much Ado About Nothing) Mel Cooper 24/11/2014he RSC has paired new productions of Love’s Labours Lost and Much Ado About Nothing to promote the idea that...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Mel Cooper 21/10/2014t took me a while to grow comfortable with (or even figure out) the visual and metaphoric concept behind this...
Reviewer's Rating Stones In His Pockets Mel Cooper 14/10/2014tones in his Pockets is a wonderful example of Brecht’s “alienation effect” working as it should. Two men: one short,...
Reviewer's Rating The Girl of the Golden West Mel Cooper 03/10/2014n some ways, you could think of Puccini’s opera La Fanciulla del West as the first spaghetti western. This aspect...
Annie Get Your Gun Mel Cooper 27/06/2014NNIE’S STILL GOT HER GUN! This touring production of Annie Get Your Gun is so clever and enjoyable that I hate to...
Three Sisters Mel Cooper 26/04/2014onchalovsky is not only a legendary film-maker but, on the evidence of his productions now in London, a great theatre...
