Monthly Archives: November 2017

There is much to enjoy in Mike Bartlett’s Albion, a complex and emotional play directed by Rupert Gould. Albion, a garden created in 1923 as a memorial to the men who died in World War 1, has been left in … Continue reading →

Rory Mullarkey’s Saint George and the Dragon, a rambling and disappointing epic about England in three different era, is described as “a folk tale for an uneasy nation.” John Heffernan’s George is not the knight in shining armour that Durer, … Continue reading →

Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea, an elusive mixture of realism and symbolism, much admired by Sigmund Freud, is about marriage in the 1880s and what it was like to be a married woman then and have no free will. … Continue reading →

N C Hunter’s pastiche Chekhov, A Day By the Sea, is infinitely preferable to the modern update of Chekhov’s Seagull at Lyric Hammersmith.

Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, a jolly musical spoof of the 1931 James Whale/Boris Karloff classic, is enjoyably silly