Monthly Archives: November 2014

Terence Rattigan’s first play, written with Philip Heimann, when he was barely 22, is based on their experiences whilst up at Oxford University in 1933. The Public Morality Council complained about the blasphemy and immorality. The University didn’t like the … Continue reading →

DV8 Physical Theatre was founded in 1986 with the aim of breaking down barriers between dance and theatre. Artistic director Lloyd Newson, who studied social work and psychology at Melbourne University, interviewed 50 men about love and sex and then … Continue reading →

Howard Goodall’s musical takes place at a RAF Bomber Command base in Britain in 1941 and relates some of the wartime and bedtime experiences of the WAAF when the next sortie could mean death. Sung-through, its strength is the music … Continue reading →

Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are professional ballroom and Latin dancers and UK champions. They made their name on TV in Strictly Come Dancing and this production is a dance showcase for them. They do not speak. They do not … Continue reading →

Pat Barker’s anti-war novel has been successfully adapted for the stage by Nicholas Wright and finely cast. Stephen Godwin’s admirable touring production concentrates on Dr Rivers and his patients, the Great War poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and the … Continue reading →

This Broadway musical tells story of the birth of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950’s through two fictional characters. A highly successful white DJ, who promotes black music on radio and TV, falls in love with a black soul singer. … Continue reading →

The Sam Wanamaker Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe’s beautiful, timbered sister theatre, and sharing the same site, is a replica of an indoor Jacobean playhouse. The pleasure of Michael Longhurst’s production is seeing a Jacobean play being performed in it. The lighting … Continue reading →

Thornton Wilder describes the life in a typical American small town in New Hampshire at the beginning of the 20th century. The action deliberately concentrates on the humdrum and trivial so that the audience finds it easy to respond to … Continue reading →