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Monthly Archives: October 2010
ME AND JULIET Finborough Theatre
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical got negative reviews in 1953 but it still ran for 354 performances. It’s not one of their best scores and the actual book is weak but there is an undeniable pleasure in watching director Thorn Southerfield … Continue reading
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ENCHANTMENT Hampstead Theatre
Earlier this year at Hampstead Ed Hall directed an exciting production of David Greig’s Dunsinane, a sequel to Macbeth. So expectations were high for his debut as Hampstead’s artistic director. These were quickly dashed by his choice of an over- … Continue reading
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NUMBER, A Menier Chocolate Factory
Caryl Churchill’s 50-minute science-fiction parable on human cloning doesn’t discuss the ethics; it merely observes the effects and asks whether it is nature or nurture which determines a person’s character? A father’s son died in a car crash and he … Continue reading
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HAMLET National Theatre/Olivier
Denmark is a prison. Elsinore, in Nicholas Hytner’s modern dress production, teems with security guards with earpieces. Everybody is under surveillance. Every step is dogged. Every door, every window, has an eavesdropper. The whole palace is bugged. There is nowhere … Continue reading
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