Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
London theatre reviews and interviews
Category: Old Vic
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As the halfway mark of 2018 rushes past, it's time to reflect on the highlights and low lights of London's theatre productions so far (edit: scroll to the bottom for the most read posts). Julius Caesar warm-up gig, Bridge Theatre. Photo: Rev Stan I'm not sure whether it's a reflection of more varied programming generally…
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It's great to see small production transfer to bigger venues so more people get to experience them but there is always a danger they lose something in a larger space. And so it was with a mixture of excitement and trepidation that I have been to see two transfers recently – An Octoroon and Sea…
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* I'm excited and nervous about the forthcoming stage adaptation of Patrick Ness’s novel A Monster Calls (the book is a favourite) but I couldn’t think of a better actor than Matthew Tennyson to take on the lead Conor. The production will have a run at the Bristol Old Vic from May 31 and the…
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Once you tune your ear to the style of the narrative and the pace of delivery Mood Music rocks. There have been many disputes between musicians over the years – Rolling Stone has a top 12 – and former music journalists Joe Penhall takes this as the theme for his new play Mood Music at…
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It is at times gripping, tense, funny and joyful but equally there were times when I was impatient for it to move on There was a moment after the first of two intervals during Fanny & Alexander at the Old Vic when I felt myself sit up straight. Up until that point the play had…
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If you'd told me at the start of the year that there would be a rom-com, a Chekhov and a Christmas play on my best of list, I'd have laughed in your face. Just goes to show you should always expect the unexpected…here are my favourite plays of 2017, in no particular order and links…
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As someone who can mildly be described as not being a Christmas person the fact that I came out of the Old Vic after watching A Christmas Carol with a spring in my step, whistling Christmas carols is an achievement. So, in a faintly Christmassy style here are 12 things I liked, in no particular…
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via GIPHY 2017 is already the year that brought us Andrew Scott's Hamlet, Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman and my introduction to playwright Branden Jacob-Jenkins and it's only six months in. There are a further nine plays I couldn't not include in my 'best of so far' list and that was with the bar set very…
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Daniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire. Photo Manuel Harlan Joshua McGuire (Guildenstern), who has played Hamlet, is on stage talking to a Hamlet (Luke Mullins) – could Tom Stoppard have anticipated this when he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead 50 years ago? Such career progression from tragedy to humourous meta-theatre feels wholly apt for this…