Monthly Archives: December 2011

If you are looking for superior family entertainment, which celebrates literacy, go and see Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel for the RSC, which has, at long last, reached London. Not even Alan Bennett’s precocious … Continue reading →

There was a time when Sean O’Casey’s 1926 masterpiece was dismissed as “a sordid, squalid, photographic melodrama.” But when the melodrama of the last act is well done, as it is in this joint production by Howard Davies for the … Continue reading →

Richard Bean’s update to Brighton in the 1950’s is nothing like as funny as Goldoni’s celebrated 1742 farce, The Servant of Two Masters, on which it is based and which gave the commedia dell’arte a new lease of life. The … Continue reading →

A world famous sculptor (Michael Pennington), wracked with guilt because he chose Art and Fame rather than Life and Happiness, is holidaying in the mountains with his much younger wife, when he bumps into his dead model and muse (Penny … Continue reading →