In The Audience – the last major stage-royal imagining – there was only one live corgi moment, but director Michael Grandage hedges his bets and has three. The final one even involves HM – Penelope Wilton – in cuddling a rather reluctant and spirited dog on the sofa while possibly –...
spectacular or magical enough to justify the record seat prices (from the high fifties (bargains 48.50 on one site) to £ 160-plus, with no halves) . This production, by Bord Gais Dublin and the Theatre Royal Plymouth, is not a slick Broadway stunner. The story, with its moral of ...
That show, opening in December, will mark the first time that Shakespeare has been staged at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane since John Gielgud acted in The Tempest in 1957. Sat 7th December 2024 – Sat 1st February 2024Catherine St, London WC2B 5JFthejamielloydcompany.com Titanique After ...
THREE PANTOMIMES Red Riding Hood | Theatre Royal Stratford East | 27 Nov-31 Dec If I remember correctly, last week, in our first pantomime tip of the season, we hinted at pantomime bounty to come: and here it is, a full section of panto tips for y...
ALADDIN Theatre Royal Stratford East, E15 SINDERFELLA Leicester Square, WC2 IT'S a pity Stratford East has staged the same panto as the all-conquering Hackney Empire. While there are jewels to pick out of the looming cave of this particular Aladdin, it's impossible to recommend that anyone...
Comments Offon CYRANO DE BERGERAC Royal, Northampton Klaxon alert! Outrage merchants , boots on, scramble! In an election season here are theatre types in North London doing a play about Tories! Written by a BBC reporter! With PM Thatcher played in drag by chap from Spitting Image!
IMPERIUM Swan, Stratford upon Avon CICERO, CAESAR, CATILINE: ELOQUENCE, AMBITION , HORROR It begins with a corpse: a horrid human-sacrifice, as we shall learn, as a set of libertines and plotters swear a blood-oath to kill the Consul Cicero. From there the play roams on, thrilling and ...
MACBETH Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN… It is awkward that two major new productions of the Scottish Play, by two determinedly auteurish directors, open in the same month. Rufus Norris’ bleak “post-Brexit” apocalyptica at the National Theatre came first, and now...