Monthly Archives: August 2017

American actor Stockard Channing makes a welcome return to London in Alexei Kaye Campbell’s Apologia, playing a Marxist art historian and absent mother, who was active politically in the 1960’s. Her two sons arrive to celebrate her birthday and the … Continue reading →

Lucy Kirkwood’s somewhat overwhelming Mosquitoes offers a series of domestic collisions between two sisters which are interrupted by the occasional lecture on the universe and the various ways our world could end. The casting of Olivia Colman and Olivia Williams … Continue reading →

Jim Cartwright’s award-winning Road was given a memorable promenade production when it premiered at the Royal Court in 1986. Set in Thatcher’s Britain 3 million are out of work. Life is at a standstill. There is nothing to do except … Continue reading →

I think it was Winston Churchill who said the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. You have seen what happened when people were asked to vote in Britain and America recently. Audiences, attending … Continue reading →

At Garrick Theatre two shows for young children. Horrible Histories in the morning is deliberately childish and silly but at the same time it is also historically informative. Gangsta Granny in the afternoon may satisfy children who have read David … Continue reading →

Tennessee Williams, who was never afraid to be big and theatrical, always thought Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was his best play. The first surprise of Benedict Andrews’s radical production is Magda Willi’s artificial set. The second surprise is … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan approached Conor McPherson to see if he would like to write a play which used his songs and then allowed him to use them in any way he liked. Girl from the North Country is not a juke-box … Continue reading →

Sue Townsend’s modern comic classic, was published in 1982 and sold 20 million copies. The diary records the aspirations of a priggish, naive, misunderstood adolescent, one of the great under-achievers, who lives on a suburban house estate in Leicester and … Continue reading →