Category: Sunday Questions
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This week's Sunday theatre question is inspired by a comment made on my Instagram post about how a song played during a production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre became forever associated with that play. It got me thinking about which songs take me back to a play whenever I hear them. I've always…
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If there was one play/production you could revive to watch when theatres reopen (hopefully) in May, what would you choose? Would you go for something tragic or uplifting? Maybe a comedy because a laugh would be good? This week my inbox has been busy with announcements about the first swathe of productions opening, and it…
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Sometimes plays just have one actor. They might be playing one character, they might be playing many, but they don't have any other actors to play off. It is just them and their performance. There are no distractions, it's just you and them. Do you have a favourite solo performance? The moment I started thinking…
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Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction and that's how I preambled my review of The Great Wave at the National Theatre back in 2018. It was based on real events in the 1970s and 1980s when North Korean agents abducted ordinary people from Japanese beaches in order to steal their identities or learn the…
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Theatre-land is a mixture of new plays and revivals, but there are certain classics which regularly get staged – which have you seen the most? Is there a particular reason why you've seen one play more than any others? The hands-down winner for me is Hamlet. I think I've seen 17 or more different productions,…
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This week's Sunday Theatre question is about girl-power on stage – what is your favourite play or production with an all-female cast? Theatre's gender balance still has a way to go, but it feels like it has improved in recent years. Do you think? My choice for this makes a thing of having an all-female…
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This week's theatre question is inspired by the wintery weather. The weathermen forecast snow for this weekend here in London but instead, it's peeing it down with rain. Not that I mind too much snow is just a pain – on those rare occasions we get it in the city. Anyway, the prospect of snow…
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If you had a theatre-watching nightmare, one where you were forced to sit an watch something and it was everything you hate, what would that look like for you? For me, it would be a musical, written by Tom Stoppard and starring Ben Whishaw for reasons I explain in the video below. There is one…
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Hopefully this year we'll see theatres reopening and a semblance of normality returning so with that in mind the first Sunday Theatre question of 2021 is about what your dream play would be and who would star in it. So pick a genre – or a play if you have one in mind – the…