Category: Almeida
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I love curtain calls at the end of plays. It's a revealing time when characters are shaken off – or not – when faces perhaps show the person underneath the acting mask. View from the stage at the RSC Swan Theatre. Photo Rev Stan They can also be a time of japes, fun and banter.…
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Audrey (Victoria Hamilton) in Mike Bartlett's play Albion, is exactly the sort of towney that country-folk hate. Victoria Hamilton (Audrey) in Albion, Almeida Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner. She's sold her London house and bought a pile with a historically significant garden in a small village and sees locals as a source of menial labour rather…
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Some quick, morning after, thoughts on the Duchess of Malfi played by Lydia Wilson at the Almeida Theatre. ’Duchess of Malfi’ transcribed as ’Duchess of mouthy’ in the captions which I thought was slightly unfair 😂. You can read my full review here – it's great to see Lydia Wilson back on stage again after…
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Lydia Wilson is back on stage, hurrah! Haven't seen her since she played Kate in Charles III back in 2014 and seeing her as the Duchess of Malfi reminded me how much I've missed her on stage. And it was a great way to round off my year of theatre-going, I love a good, gruesome…
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Vassa is a pitch-black comedy… so pitch black that you struggle to see where the laughs are. The set for Vassa, designed by Fly Davis, is a wood-panelled room, windowless but with five doors. When a door is open, characters often loiter outside. When they are closed there seems to be a constant stream of…
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Robert Icke has certainly made his mark while associate director at the Almeida. Highs include Hamlet with Andrew Scott and Oresteia with Lia Williams although there was also Mr Burns. He leaves the Almeida with a challenging piece, his adaptation of the early 20th Century play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler. Set in a modern…
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Photo by Rob Laughter on Unsplash You know when you get appraised at work and scored on your performance? Well, I've done the same for the theatres Poly and I have 'friends' memberships for. Essentially these schemes are ways of theatres raising money and in return, you get perks like priority booking. Return on 'investment'?…
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So I've published my favourite fringe plays list and my least favourite plays list, time now for my best plays of 2018 overall, gleaned from everything I've seen – large productions and small, commercial theatres, subsidised and fringe: via GIPHY Misty, Trafalgar Studios A play which put the pulse back into the West End and…