One of the huge advantages of online theatre over the last eighteen months or so has been being able to catch up with plays that any self-respecting reviewer should have seen but for whatever reason hasn’t. My Night With Reg was first produced in 1994 (missed it), has been revived since (missed them) and even turned into a TV film (guess what?)
‘Tender & exquisitely yearning new production’: MY NIGHT WITH REG – Turbine Theatre ★★★★★
Revisiting My Night With Reg now is to experience this heartbreaker of life and loss and friendship and family not just as a time capsule of a particular period of our lives but as a timeless classic, an intricately patterned play of layered and deeply poignant inter-relationships.
‘Okonedo more than delivers’: ANTONY & CLEOPATRA – National Theatre ★★★★
Or Cleopatra and Antony as it turns out. Ralph Fiennes is plenty good in Simon Godwin’s modern-dress production of Antony & Cleopatra for the National Theatre, but Sophie Okonedo is sit-up, shut-up, stand-up amazing.
FEATURED SHOW: Chekhov adaptation The Lady With a Dog transfers to Tabard Theatre, more ★★★★★ reviews are in!
Got your tickets yet for Mark Giesser’s stage adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Lady with a Dog, relocated to Britain during the inter-war 1920s? Following its world premiere season at the White Bear Theatre, the production has now transferred across town to west London’s Tabard Theatre, where it’s attracted more blogger bouquets.
NEWS: Chekhov’s The Lady with a Dog transfers from White Bear to Tabard Theatre
Mark Giesser’s just-opened, Jazz Age-set adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Lady with a Dog will transfer next month directly from south London’s White Bear Theatre in Kennington SE11 to west London’s Tabard Theatre in Chiswick W4. Got your tickets yet?
WATCH: Terri’s show vlogs on Julius Caesar, Beginning & Foul Pages
I’ve been raving about Julius Caesar to everyone over the past few weeks, and particularly the experience of seeing it in the pit of the staggeringly versatile Bridge Theatre.
‘The decision to move the action to the 1920s is inspired’: THE LADY WITH A DOG – White Bear Theatre ★★★★
Advice columns have often suggested lonely hearts should take up dog walking as a sure-fire way of finding romance. They may be barking up the wrong tree but love-sick mutts are suckers for a cute pooch. The ploy works wonders in Mark Giesser’s enchanting romance, The Lady With A Dog, adapted from Chekhov’s classic short story.
INTERVIEW: The Lady With a Dog is ‘an intimate love story… that’s what makes it one of Chekhov’s most timeless pieces’
Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Girl with a Dog has been reset to the Jazz Age in a new adaptation by Mark Giesser, which comes next month to London’s White Bear Theatre.
NEWS: Jazz Age reimagining of Chekhov’s The Lady with a Dog premieres at White Bear
Anton Chekhov’s 1899 short story The Girl with a Dog has been reset to the Jazz Age in a new adaptation by Mark Giesser, which comes next month to London’s White Bear Theatre.
IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL – Charing Cross Theatre
This new production of Tennessee Williams’ play reveals weaknesses in the script but brings the characters vividly to life.
IN THE BAR OF A TOYKO HOTEL – Charing Cross Theatre
This is an interesting and intriguing piece. The set of a Tokyo hotel bar in 1969 gives an air of sophistication, steeply raked the audience clearly see the cast on stage.