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Monthly Archives: March 2011
FRANKENSTEIN National Theatre/Olivier (2)
The story has elements of Milton (God and the Fallen Angel), Shakespeare (Prospero and Caliban) , the Bible (Adam and Eve) and history (Burke and Hare). Frankenstein is a name to conjure with; but ironically his Creature has no name. … Continue reading
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THE WIZARD OF OZ Palladium
This famous film, premiered in 1939, the year of Gone with the Wind and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was not that big a success until its re-release ten years later. It then, thanks to its annual Christmas showings … Continue reading
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MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET Noel Coward Theatre
On 4 December 1956 a legendary impromptu jam session took place in Memphis at Sun Records. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins recorded a series of rock classics. The show recreates that session. Nobody will go … Continue reading
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DROWNING ON DRY LAND Jermyn Street Theatre
Alan Ayckbourn’s plays, once he had tried them out in his own theatre in Scarborough, used to premiere in London either in the West End or at the National Theatre. Nowadays they are premiered on the Fringe. Talent is unnecessary. … Continue reading
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FRANKENSTEIN National Theatre/Olivier
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was written when she was barely nineteen, the result of an horrific waking dream she had whilst she was on holiday in Switzerland with Shelley and Byron. The novel was an instant best seller in 1816, a … Continue reading
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COMPANY Southwark Playhouse
As always you come out of the theatre wanting to read Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics, which are notable for their sophisticated dexterity and ironic wit. When Company was premiered in London in 1972 it was staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre and … Continue reading
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THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Donmar Theatre
There was an enchanting American film documentary in 2002 about eight genuine youngsters competing in the 1999 National Spelling Bee, called Spellbound, and it was infinitely preferable to this relentless and exhausting musical send-up in which the children are played … Continue reading
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