Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Apollo stage has been transformed into an Elizabethan hall such as Shakespeare’s own company might have acted in at the Inns of Court. Some members of the audience sit on stage. The house lights remain on in the auditorium … Continue reading →

A widow lies about her age and passes off her 19-year-old son as a 14-year-old with disastrous results for her husband and herself. Arthur Wing Pinero’s farces were once all the rage. His satires on bourgeois morality and hypocrisy were … Continue reading →

Russian playwright Alex Arbuzov follows the fortunes of three teenagers who survived the horrific siege of Leningrad in World War 2 which lasted 900 days and killed 600,000. Their idealistic optimism turns to bitter disillusionment in the post-Stalin era when … Continue reading →

Nick Payne’s 70-minute play, directed by Michael Longhurst, has successfully transferred from the Royal Court to the West End. A professional beekeeper and quantum cosmologist meet. How will their relationship develop? Payne shows that at any given moment several outcomes … Continue reading →

A musical based on the well-known fairy tale of The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen sounds like a good idea for the pantomime season. A prince is looking for a princess to marry. His mother insists that … Continue reading →

Boy meets Girl. Boy loses Girl. Boy gets Girl in the end. The old cliché has been given, as the title suggests, a twist. The story is set in an imaginary 1936 when men got married in church and nobody … Continue reading →

Stand-up comedy, says Julian Clary, is just being yourself in an exaggerated form. He has come a long way since The Joan Collins Fan Club and Sticky Moments in the late 1980’s. His appearance in Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, … Continue reading →

Once again artistic director Sam Walters has come up trumps. Here is a major play by a major world playwright very few people will have seen in Britain. Well cast and well directed by David Antrobus it is a collector’s … Continue reading →