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London is currently rediscovering the pleasures of the farce, albeit in a nostalgic fashion. With ‘Noises Off’ and the even more venerable ‘One Man, Two Guv’nors’ currently packing ‘em in again, ‘The Ladykillers’ looked like it might be a step too far, even re-written from the 1955 film by Graham ‘Father Ted’ Lineham. But, seeing [...] Having read about the cut-throat practices of getting shows into the West End, with successful plays being bumped to make room for others, it depresses me that Olympic visitors will be coerced into seeing shameful old tat like ‘The Mousetrap’ and the genuinely embarrassing Queen tribute show that’s still dragging its exhausted butt across the [...] Well, after my first tentative foray into playwriting, I finally got around to rewriting ‘Celebrity’ taking on board the audience reactions and comments. It had originally been written to run just over an hour because the first venue was small and, I felt, would prove uncomfortable for a longer period. Anyone who has sat in [...] I can’t help thinking that the Menier Chocolate Factory is a victim of its own success; lately too many shows have been chosen for their ability to transfer to the West End, and too many have disappointed since the genius reworking of ‘Sunday In The Park With George’. Now comes the Stephen Schwartz/ Bob Fosse [...] I listen to an insane amount of music at home. This comes down to personality type; I’m an annoyingly perky fidget, which makes me hell in the mornings and a sucker for musicals. I know all the words because the cadence of language is very important to me. I don’t like conspicuously camp shows or [...] I missed this play first time around and am thrilled it came back with the original cast intact. Jex Butterworth has matured as a playwright in the last few years, but his edge is as sharp as ever. This is a big evening; a lengthy three-act exploration of the power of English mythology. Id Mark Rylance’s [...] Over the next two months, eight plays – that’s two lots of four – are being unleashed on unsuspecting Londoners. At the Soho Theatre there will be another four tales of terror by well-known authors at Terrorfest. This is in its third year – the first was great, the second terrible, so we’re hoping this [...] Ten years after 9/11, the National Theatre and Headlong examine a decade filled with grief, prejudice, rhetoric and hope from the perspective of twenty writers, some new, some up-and-coming, some US, some British. The result of this workshop is a powerful piece of site-specific theatre that reminds us why there is no other theatre in [...] London is more about what you miss than what you do. The sheer impossibility of knowing what’s going on eventually gets to you. Even Time Out, once a magazine I bought religiously, can no longer keep up. They cover the big openings and a few of the more popular fringe events, but fail to find [...] Good things go. Bad things stay. The Travel Bookshop was the inspiration for the rom-com Notting Hill, in which Hugh Grant fell in love Julia Roberts. A group of writers have [...] |
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