We may not have been able to see our fellow digital audience members but we knew they were there, making The Dumb Waiter feel like a communal event.
NEWS: The Old Vic announces Back Together season
The Old Vic has announced its Back Together season, the seventh from artistic director Matthew Warchus, which will run from July 2021 to July 2022 and combines both streamed and live shows.
THE CARETAKER – Old Vic Theatre
Atmospheric revival of Harold Pinter’s psychological drama is too long and too elaborate to be genuinely moving.
REVIEW ROUND-UP: The Caretaker at the Old Vic Theatre
Harold Pinter’s modern classic heads to the Old Vic Theatre, starring Timothy Spall and Daniel Mays. Is artistic director Matthew Warchus’ revival a hit or a miss? The Caretaker continues until 14 May 2016.
THE CARETAKER – Old Vic Theatre
I do not routinely worship at the shrine of Harold Pinter. I can study, appreciate and accept the menace, the unspoken, the rhythmic near-poetry of dialogue : I have served my time with Existentialism, Absurdism, Beckettiana, every generation of push-theatre-forward shockjockery. Pinter has his place and his heirs (Florian Zeller lately a fine one). Get a great director like Matthew Warchus and a top cast and you have an event, for many an unmissable one. But he doesn’t stir deeper currents in me. For all the skill and faithfulness, what is expressed is too mired in misanthropy, bitterness, bullying rage and shreds of misogyny.
Curtain Up: News from the last week in theatre, tickets on sale
Another week has passed and somehow I still haven’t been to the theatre (damn that day job!), but that doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a whole heap of theatre news to excite us all. Here are few of my favourite stories
from the past seven days, covering shows including: Sunset Boulevard, Guys and Dolls, Red Velvet, The Caretaker and more…
NEWS: Daniel Mays & George Mackay join Timothy Spall in The Caretaker, Tickets on sale
Daniel Mays and George MacKay will join the previously announced Timothy Spall in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, directed by Old Vic Artistic Director Matthew Warchus, running at the Old Vic 6 April to 14 May 2016, previews from 26 March.
Weekly Theatre Podcast: As You Like It, The Red Lion, The Importance of Being Earnest
On this week’s podcast, leading London theatre bloggers discuss views on three plays: As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe, The Importance of Being Earnest, starring David Suchet as Lady Bracknell, and Patrick Marber’s new play The Red Lion, starring Daniel Mays at the National, as well as the most recent London revival of Broadway musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
THE RED LION – National Theatre
“This isn’t a church, it’s a ‘business!” What a sentiment for a theatre crowd to hear – or indeed anyone with an art, talent or craft within fifty paces of a cash register.
Back after nearly a decade in the dark, the writer Patrick Marber has mustered a slick three-hander. I am someone who actively takes against football. It’s a bloated beast which long trained its eye on the dosh, and has legions of devotees to do the explaining and the covering up for it. This play movingly demonstrates the dedication, and the devastation. All-consuming fandom and those riding it for every penny.
Review: Trelawny Of The Wells (Donmar Warehouse)
How splendidly the Donmar adapts to every new production: from the blinding pennants of the Spelling Bee school gym to the stark guns-and-gantries of the all-female Julius Caesar and now an authentically lamp-black pickled Victorian music hall with soaring columns, creaking boards and a whiff of oranges and cheap scent in the pit. Rose Trelawny is the darling of […]
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Review: Trelawny Of The Wells (Donmar Warehouse)
How splendidly the Donmar adapts to every new production: from the blinding pennants of the Spelling Bee school gym to the stark guns-and-gantries of the all-female Julius Caesar and now an authentically lamp-black pickled Victorian music hall with soaring columns, creaking boards and a whiff of oranges and cheap scent in the pit. Rose Trelawny is the darling of […]
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