Monthly Archives: June 2015

Life-long football supporter Patrick Marber sets his play in the drab changing room of a non-league football club of a small town. A promising young player, asked to do something he knows to be morally wrong, cries out: “It’s illegal!” … Continue reading →

Tennessee Williams’s short story was begun in 1942 and completed in 1945 but not published until 1948. Williams then turned the script into a screenplay. It was never filmed. Could it have worked as a film noir? Nineteen years later … Continue reading →

Welsh playwright Gary Owen writes about domestic violence, consensual sex and morning after regrets. Liam is 17 and taking his “A” levels. He is a nerd and obsessed with Dr No. His mother has recently died and he’s living with … Continue reading →

Stephen Wyatt’s 90-minute stage comedy is about growing old and infinitely superior to the Ian McKellen/Derek Jacobi TV series, Vicious. Robin Hooper, Michael Garner and Christopher Hunter are well cast as three elderly gays who meet irregularly to discuss their … Continue reading →

George Farquhar in 1707 was living in dire poverty in a garret and seriously ill with tuberculosis. Robert Wilks, the actor, a life-long friend, gave him some money to write a comedy. Six weeks later The Beaux’ Stratagem was staged. … Continue reading →

When the ancient Greeks went to the theatre they would already know the myth. They would want to see what the dramatist had done with it. The Oresteia is not Aeschylus’s tragedy, which premiered in 458BC in Athens at the … Continue reading →

Milonga is notable for a stunning virtuoso tango dance by German Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi; but the Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s attempts to give the tango a contemporary perspective are not always successful.

Occupy London, the anti-capitalist movement, rallying against economic inequality, social injustice and corporate greed, were stopped by the police from occupying the London Stock Exchange in 2011. The demonstrators then proceeded to set up camp in St Paul’s churchyard. But … Continue reading →