Category: Bush Theatre
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It was a Jubilee Year, an Olympic year but while all eyes were on the Queen and the lycra wearing athletes I was quietly breaking my annual record with 109 theatre trips. So which were the gold medal winners which took home the booby prizes? Well it's been a good year for the National Theatre…
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I hate to use the word perfect because if you look hard enough you will inevitable find a flaw but both in watching and on reflection I can find nothing bad to say about DC Moore's play Straight. It is as if the stars of script, direction and performance aligned. Straight's central premise is a…
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The critic vs blogger debate is a well trodden path and I can't be bothered to re-visit the arguments – I'm sure one of the critic-bloggers can be relied upon to bring up the topic again at some point in the not too distant future. What does interest me in the whole theatre and the…
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First visit to the lovely little Bush Theatre where it's so small that I could see, clear as day, the shock on the face of the elderly lady sat on the opposite side of the stage when one of the characters asked another: "Did you finger her pussy?" And what makes it all the more…
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Just got an email through from the Bush Theatre about its play The Aliens which I’m booked to see with @polyg a week on Saturday. As well as the running time it had the following warning: Please note that the show contains strong language and real cigarettes. Obviously I shall endeavour not to be offended…