Monthly Archives: March 2011

Ryan Craig’s play is a domestic drama with a political agenda. The Rosenbergs are Jews living in London and they are under enormous pressure. Dad’s catering business has collapsed. Dad also has a guilty secret. (Arthur Miller, if he were … Continue reading →

Mike Leigh is a great observer of working and lower middle-class life and best known these days for films such as Vera Drake and Another Year; but he had a big success in the theatre in the late seventies with … Continue reading →

Neil LaBute is the most popular American playwright since David Mamet. He first came to the public’s attention with his 1997 film debut, In the Company of Men, a story of two corporate businessmen, who decide to seduce the sweetest … Continue reading →

Twenty years ago Tim Firth wrote a one-act play about a middle-aged man who had ambitions to write spy stories but didn’t have the talent; and knew it. His job was installing signs on buildings. He tried to befriend a … Continue reading →

Terence Rattigan’s play, which opened in December 1942, is based on his experience during World War 2 when he served as in air gunner in the RAF. He caught the mood of the moment so perfectly the play ran for … Continue reading →

One thing is absolutely certain and that is no government authority will be using this disturbing, depressing and totally riveting play in their drive to recruit new teachers. A good and popular white teacher is falsely accused of assault and … Continue reading →

Noel Coward’s play, written in five days during World War 2 at the height of the Blitz in 1941, ran for four-and-a-half years. The situation of a husband, haunted firstly by one dead wife and then by two dead wives … Continue reading →

The show is burlesque, American style, and offers raucous and bawdy female striptease. Anybody expecting a class act in the Gypsy Rose Lee manner will be disappointed. It’s just one crude song and dance after another.