Monthly Archives: October 2017

Florian Zeller, the multi-award winning French novelist and playwright, is having as big a success on the London stage as he is having on the Paris stage. In The Lie Zeller argues there are times when it is better to … Continue reading →

James Graham’s Labour of Love is a political play about the schism within the Labour Party and the doctrinal in-fighting which keeps them out of power and makes them permanent losers. The history covers a period from 1990 to the … Continue reading →

On 21 April 1968 at Birmingham’s Midland Hotel Enoch Powell addressed a Conservative Association meeting and delivered his incendiary “Rivers of Blood” speech which divided the UK in much the same way that the Brexit vote 50 years later divided … Continue reading →

Simon Stephens’s 90-minute two-hander is not about Heisenberg; but he uses his thesis that Nature is not predictable as a springboard. Two strangers, a lively 42-year-old American woman (Anne-Marie Duff) and a dry 75-year-old British man (Kenneth Cranham),who has done … Continue reading →

J.T. Rogers’ multi-award winning three-hour political drama records the clandestine peace process initiated by a Norwegian couple which led to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Afarat shaking hands on the White House lawn in 1993 in front of … Continue reading →

The last time Juliet Stevenson was at The Young Vic she was buried up to her neck in a low mound. Now in Arthur Kopit’s Wings she is in a harness and flying. She is cast as a former aviator … Continue reading →

Clarke Peters’ Five Guys Named Moe is a lively tribute to the black American musician, songwriter and bandleader Louis Jordan (1908-1975), the “King of the Jukebox”. The production, choreographed by Andrew Wright, celebrates his music, not his life. There is … Continue reading →

The Richmond audience is mainly in the same age bracket as the characters in David Storey’s The March to Russia and they identified immediately with the elderly bickering couple (Ian Gelder and Sue Wallace) celebrating their 69th wedding anniversary with … Continue reading →