Monthly Archives: September 2016

John Wolfson’s The Inn at Lydda is based on an incident recorded in The Death of Pilate which can be found in the New Testament Apocrypha. The mortally ill Emperor Tiberius (Stephen Boxer) in Rome hears about a man who … Continue reading →

Beth Steel’s latest play, Labyrinth, painstakingly researched, is about the Latin-American debt crisis in the 1970’s and 1980’s in which everybody is bankrupt, financially and morally. A young man (Sean Delaney), barely out of college, lands a job as a … Continue reading →

For many people A A Milne will mean Winnie-the-Pooh, the teddy bear, and Christopher Robin and the E H Shepard drawings. But Milne (1882-1956), novelist, screenwriter and writer of light verse for children, who wrote humorous essays for Punch and … Continue reading →

Noël Coward’s Home Chat has not been seen for nearly 90 years. In his autobiography, Present Indicative, Coward says his comedy has some excellent lines and a reasonably funny situation but that he was not entirely pleased with it: “It … Continue reading →

It was the unexpected casting of Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice in John Osborne’s The Entertainer which made the premiere in 1959 so memorable. Here was the foremost classical actor, not only cast as a camp, sleazy, fifth-rate music hall … Continue reading →

Owen McCarthy’s Unfaithful is well cast. A middle-aged wife (Niamh Cusack) learns that her middle-aged husband (Sean Campion) has had a one night stand with a young woman (Ruta Gedmintas) who picked him up whilst having a drink in a … Continue reading →

Dave Hanson was understudying in a terrible production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in Los Angeles many years ago. That experience led him to write Waiting for Waiting for Godot which might amuse an audience of actors; but, probably, … Continue reading →

J B Priestley’s play had its premiere in Liverpool 1932 and there was a production by Cambridge undergraduates in 1935; and that was it, until Hugh Ross’s present enjoyable revival. The comedy, very light and typical of its era, is … Continue reading →