The Silver Tassie, National Theatre, 2014
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of World War One, the National Theatre’s choice to re-stage Sean O’Casey’s anti-war play, The Silver Tassie, was perhaps not an obvious one. Dismissed by […]
To commemorate the hundredth anniversary of World War One, the National Theatre’s choice to re-stage Sean O’Casey’s anti-war play, The Silver Tassie, was perhaps not an obvious one. Dismissed by […]
Who wouldn’t have wanted to be a fly on the wall to Margaret Thatcher’s meetings with the Queen? This is the exact premise of Moira Buffini’s new, award-winning comedy, Handbagged, […]
Transcendental bigamy, tumultuous ghosts, and the triumph of misogyny – few themes seem less synonymous with the aim of ‘theatrical escapism’ during the dark days of wartime London. Yet Blithe […]
Where did we start from, how did we get to where we are, and how much choice did we have along the way? Are the successes or failures of social […]
‘Comedies of manners quickly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners’, declares the Jeevesian butler in Noel Coward’s Relative Values (1951). His words strike at the heart of […]
The New Theatre’s weekly e-mail round-up was an eye-catcher: ‘Don’t miss Felicity Kendal and Simon Cowell in a classic bittersweet comedy’. I don’t know if this was a tactical marketing […]