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 […]
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Handbagged, Vaudeville Theatre, 2014
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, […]
Blithe Spirit, Gielgud Theatre, 2014
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 […]
Good People, Noël Coward Theatre, 2014
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 […]
Relative Values, Harold Pinter Theatre, 2014
‘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 […]
Chin-Chin, New Theatre Cardiff, 2013
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 […]
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