For better or worse, the association between theatre, television and film has only grown closer in the last ten years, not just with artists moving between the different genres but also in the adoption of cinematic technique within productions.
‘Diana Quick gives a bravura performance’: MIDNIGHT YOUR TIME – Donmar Warehouse (Online review)
This revival of a 2011 HighTide hit, reconceived for streaming, stars Diana Quick and is intimate and quietly moving.
‘A sort of McBurney-meets-le Carré mini-thriller’: ANNA – National Theatre ★★★★
After the querulous, inward-looking tedium of her feminist polemic The Writer, Ella Hickson returns to interesting form with this curiosity, Anna.
‘It’s another Boswell triumph’: THE MODEL APARTMENT – Bath ★★★★
Donald Margulies’ The Model Apartment is a typical choice for the Ustinov, a work whose meaning and its overall effect will continue to burrow under the surface of its audience members for weeks to come.
Saying farewell to Tim Pigott-Smith, The Report & Woyzeck
The news of Tim Pigott-Smith’s passing at the age of 70 yesterday was a terrible shock, not least because he was still in a rich creative vein – a tour of Death of a Salesman was scheduled for next month.
How to ‘play the truth’ … on tour in Afghanistan
Vaudevillian Iestyn Edwards regularly performs all over the world. In this blog detailing his adventures as stage persona “Madame Galina”, he takes coaching from actor Diana Quick on “playing the truth” and recalls his experiences doing just that during a Combined Services Entertainment show in Iraq and Afghanistan…