Birdsong Mel Cooper 18/07/2018 I have a lot of good to say about the acclaimed touring production of Birdsong, but also a major quibble. The actual production itself is exemplary...
Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain Mel Cooper 13/06/2018 Simon Reade’s clever homage to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, plays like a well made West End Drawing Room Thriller of the 19...
Rumpelstiltskin Mel Cooper 08/06/2018 On one level, the Ballet Lorent has once again created an interesting dance event that tells a fairy tale for both children and the adults that they b...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mel Cooper 17/05/2018 The almost-legendary Midsummer Night’s Dream production by Lyric Hammersmith and Filter Theatre has been revived again and is totally wonderful in alm...
A Streetcar Named Desire Mel Cooper 11/05/2018 A new production by English Touring Theatre, Theatre Clwyd and Nuffield Southampton Theatres simply proves once again that the Tennessee Williams’ pla...
The Winslow Boy Mel Cooper 14/03/2018 The new production of Terence Rattigan’s 1946 hit play THE WINSLOW BOY that is touring the UK is a vivid reminder of just what a good playwright Ratti...
Twelfth Night Nicholas Potter 28/07/2017 Twelfth Night is a Shakespearean comedy, which is a classification that doesn’t appeal to the casual theatregoer; the most disparaging attendees assum...
Death of a Salesman Nicholas Potter 14/07/2017 Death of a Salesman is one of Miller’s most popular plays. I’ve had the benefit of seeing it twice: the first time was at the Royal Shakespeare Theatr...
Heartbeats and Algorithms Mel Cooper 12/01/2017 If you have a chance to see Jenny Lee’s one-woman show, Heartbeats & Algorithms, I recommend that you should grab it. It got its start and won muc...
Peter Pan In Scarlet Mel Cooper 19/08/2016 Peter Pan in Scarlet is the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Set in the late 1920s, that is, after World War I, the children of the original...
