- Venue: Hampstead Theatre
- Date: 27th March 2024
- Directed by: Anna Mackmin
- Staring: Rachael Stirling; Anushka Chakravarti; Eva Feiler; Dominic Rowan; Sadie Shimmin; Gareth Snook
A tour de force (but then it would be...)
Considering they were contemporaries (well, overlapping) it is a shame there isn’t an all ladies Siddons Club where the members could thumb their noses at the Garrick. At the Hampstead then, for ‘The Divine Mrs S’’s last preview.
- Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
- Date: 22nd March 2023
- Directed by: Dominic Dromgoole
- Staring: Julian Ovenden; Giles Terera; Tanya Franks
All that glisters...
Is this a highly topical look at free, and hate, speech in an academic setting? - once again does the Menier (in early Preview) set out to intellectually challenge as well as (instead of?) entertaining?
- Venue: Wilton's Music Hall
- Date: 19th March 2024
- Directed by: John Savournin
- Staring: Jonathan Eyres; Joseph Doody; Samantha Price; Matthew Kellett; Hugo Herman-Wilson
It's near Cable St, it must be a riot!
Up Cable St again to get to Wilton’s Music Hall to watch the Charles Court Opera (CCO) version of Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
- Venue: Hampstead Theatre
- Date: 13th March 2024
- Directed by: Jonathan Kent
- Staring: Jonathan Hyde; Rowan Polonski; Ian Mcneice ; Joanna Vanderham
Double Feature - Really?
It is an interesting conceit that two movies, being made in the 60s, could have pivotal (perhaps) moments in their conceptions intertwined into a single, (or is it?) dramatic piece.
- Venue: National Theatre (Lyttleton)
- Date: 6th March 2024
- Directed by: Emily Burns
- Staring: Lindsay Duncan; Malcolm Sinclair
A well made play without a kitchen sink in sight...
It’s the Press Night for Nye, so we’re next door at the Lyttleton to see Dear Octopus.
- Venue: National Theatre (Olivier)
- Date: 27th February 2024
- Directed by: Rufus Norris
- Staring: Michael Sheen; Sharon Small; Roger Evans; Tony Jayawardena and Stephanie Jacob
A Furious man, with much to be furious about...
The charms, and I may be using that word quite wrongly, of the Olivier at the National Theatre beckoned again, for an early preview of ‘Nye’ and Michael Sheen.