Animal behaviour but within a human framework. This is a powerful new play from Ruby Thomas at Hampstead Theatre.
‘I didn’t find that this production ever really took off’: MY NIGHT WITH REG — Online / Turbine
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.
‘I could easily imagine it transferring to the West End’: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – Arcola Theatre & Touring
Little Miss Sunshine is impressively directed with a high energy level, the songs are so good that I hope a soundtrack CD is soon released, and overall it’s a very solid four-star musical I could easily imagine transferring to the West End and being a big hit.
NEWS: Laura Pitt-Pulford & Gary Wilmot join the cast of Little Miss Sunshine European premiere
The European premiere of Little Miss Sunshine at Arcola Theatre will star Laura Pitt-Pulford as Sheryl, the matriarch of the eccentric Hoover family and Gary Wilmot as Grandpa. The Off-Broadway hit musical opens at the Arcola Theatre, London on 21 March 2019 running until 11 May (press night is 1 April) before embarking on a UK tour.
NEWS: Mike Poulton’s Rattigan-inspired Kenny Morgan gets second run at Arcola
Arcola Theatre’s production of Kenny Morgan will return for just four weeks this September after a sold-out premiere earlier this year. It will run at the Arcola from Tuesday 20 September to Saturday 15 October 2016, with a press night on Friday 23 September.
Weekly Theatre Podcast: Threepenny Opera, Kenny Morgan, A Subject of Scandal & Concern
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss Simon Stephens new version of Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera at the National, Mike Poulton’s take on Rattigan, Kenny Morgan, at the Arcola, and John Osborne revival A Subject of Scandal and Concern at the Finborough Theatre.
KENNY MORGAN – Arcola Theatre
The Deep Blue Sea is Terence Rattigan’s masterpiece (and about to play at the National Theatre). A young woman who has left her eminent older husband for an alcoholic young fighter-pilot is found at the start lying by a gas fire, being revived by down-at-heel neighbours after a suicide attempt in a shabby boarding-house. It is, in the end, redemptive. But in real life the three ill-starred lovers were men: young Kenny Morgan had left Rattigan for a younger lover and was being left in his turn by Alec Lennox. And Morgan died; Rattigan, after long minutes of silent shock at the news, resolved to make a play.
KENNY MORGAN – Arcola Theatre
Mike Poulton’s powerful play is brought to heartbreaking life in this production directed by Lucy Bailey. Kenny Morgan tells the story of the actor Kenneth Morgan and his turbulent relationship with his on and off partner Terence Rattigan and his difficult relationship with current partner Alec Lennox.
KENNY MORGAN – Arcola Theatre
‘You can’t start with a pause’ says Birdboot to Moon at the top of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound, but Mike Poulton and director Lucy Bailey disprove this most successfully as Paul Keating lies before an unlit hissing gas fire in the opening scene of Kenny Morgan. It parallels Terrence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea where Hester Collyer attempts suicide when discarded by her virile, alcoholic younger lover.
Review: The Goodbye Girl (Upstairs at the Gatehouse)
Nothing to see here, move along. Gosh, this was tedious. I’d have left before the interval if it hadn’t involved crossing the stage and I didn’t want anyone to think I might be ‘in’ it. There are plenty of good reasons The Goodbye Girl isn’t often revived – it’s made largely from the musical scraps Marvin […]
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