84 Charing Cross Road Roger Mortimer 15/06/2018 There are certain things Amazon just can’t do for you, not even with Prime membership. I can’t imagine, for example, having a 20 year correspondence w...
Iolanthe Richard Voyce 19/05/2018 I rightly raved about ENO’s new Iolanthe back in February. Director Cal McCrystal’s laugh-a-minute makeover turns this 1882 Gilbert and Sullivan story...
Duet for One Nicole Kent 30/10/2017 Tom Kempinski’s Duet for One, stars Belinda Lang (Stephanie Abrahams) and Oliver Cotton (Dr feldmann) in a poignant, two - man play. It is about a bri...
The Best Man Tim Hochstrasser 09/10/2017 There are not many plays around right now that get to the heart of the tensions and conflicts of the political process in the way that, for example, I...
The Mikado Richard Voyce 25/05/2017 Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece is all but Teflon coated in its ability to withstand whatever ‘concept’ is imposed upon it. It must theref...
Gaslight Amelia Forsbrook 08/03/2017 You may’ve heard of gaslighting, the form of psychological abuse where a perpetrator persuades their victim, typically a spouse or partner, that they ...
La Strada Alessandro Zummo 07/03/2017 The heyday of Italian neorealism in cinema lasted only a few years but its legacy can still be felt today. Thanks to the genius of Roberto Rossellini,...
Brideshead Revisited Zoe Skipworth 01/07/2016 I'm going to start by saying that this production was exactly what I wanted. I absolutely adore Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited as it is so rich, ...
King Lear Adrian Pulle 11/05/2016 The Richmond Theatre’s wonderful ‘King Lear’ opens with discord: the fragile but steely-eyed Cordelia (Beth Cooke) enters the bare stage alone and fi...
Clybourne Park Owen Davies 28/04/2016 After fifteen minutes of this play I was thinking that it was a bit like an old US TV sitcom but with worse jokes – an extended and unfunny riff on th...
