- Venue: Garrick Theatre
- Date: 7th August 2025
- Directed by: Dominic Cooke
- Staring: Imelda Staunton; Bessie Carter; Kevin Doyle; Robert Glenister
Fabian Drama - an actors' challenge?
Famously, Carl von Clausewitz considered "war is a continuation of policy by other means" (but in German!) and Shaw clearly sees drama as ‘Fabian pamphleteering by other means’.
- Venue: Almeida
- Date: 6th August 2025
- Directed by: Rebecca Frecknall
- Staring: Ruth Wilson; Michael Shannon; David Threlfall
Great acting - yes - Great Play - well....
If you wanted to find the antithesis of a Whitehall Farce, Moon for the Misbegotten would be a good first port of call.
- Venue: Opera Holland Park
- Date: 31st July 2025
- Directed by: Rodula Gaitanou
- Staring: Alison Langer; Matteo Desole; Michel de Souza
Sublime Beauty
Opera Holland Park can manage operas both sublime and ridiculous (at least in directorial conception, if not authorial intention).
- Venue: Moving Parts Theatre Company in Dulwich Picture Gallery gardens
- Date: 17th July 2025
- Directed by: Simona Hughes
- Staring: Katrina Michaels; Anna Blackburn; Tom Beattie; Joanna Nevine
A whirligig of a production
Vanity Fair is a long and quite difficult book to summarise in two hours.
- Venue: Brockley Jack Theatre
- Date: 3rd July 2025
- Directed by: Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller
- Staring: Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller; Rosie Hart
Now, that's a dilemma
It’s always nice to see a small, local, pub theatre pulling one out of the bag, and Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller (Writer and Director and Star)’s ‘Press’ at the Brockley Jack delivers in full.
- Venue: Shakespeare in the Park – Albert Square
- Date: 19th June 2025
- Directed by: Toby Gordon
- Staring: Sasha Wilson; Roddy Lynch; Kalifa Taylor
Toxicity detoxified
My first visit to a Shakespeare in the Park (it does what it says on the tin) production – this year The Taming of the Shrew in 34 venues – mine Albert Square in Stockwell.