Category: West End
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT It feels a while since I saw a play in which the staging had the wow factor. Did the play of The Lives of Others based on the film have a similar impact? With this cast, Keira Knightley, Luke Thompson, Stephen Dillane, and director Robert Ike, I went in with very high expectations,…
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Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup are a terrifying and terrific pairing in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Soho Place. The play is set at an after-party early in the morning at Martha (Anderson) and university professor George’s (Crudup) house, with a young married couple, Nick (Josh Dillon) and Honey (Phoebe Horn). But…
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While I’ve introduced myself in my About Me section, I haven’t said much about my theatre likes and dislikes. My tastes are born out of a lot of testing. I’ve been going to the theatre regularly for 16 years. At the moment, I have the capacity to see one or two plays a week –…
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Video review transcript (lightly edited for grammar): Les Liaisons Dangereuses – I never know how you pronounce that. Dangerous Liaisons at the National Theatre, starring Aidan Turner and Lesley Manville, is superb. I’m just going to come straight out and say it. The chemistry between the two leads is fantastic. There’s a delightful mixture of…
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Video transcript: Woman in Mind at the Duke of York’s Theatre sees Sheridan Smith play a woman who is hit on the head by a rake, and she starts to hallucinate an alternative life. The alternative life is very different from her real life. In her real life, she has a boring, inattentive husband and…
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Video transcript: Born with Teeth at the Wyndham’s Theatre imagines a collaboration between Christopher Marlowe, played by Ncuti Gatwa and Shakespeare, played by Edward Bluemel. At the time, Christopher Marlowe is the much more famous playwright, and Shakespeare is very early career, hasn’t really achieved any fame as yet. And it’s a play about personalities…
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Clarkston video review transcript: Clarkston at the Trafalgar theatre. It stars Joe Locke and Ruaridh Mollica as two co workers during the night shift at Costco in a small rural town in America. And Joe Locke’s character Jake, has blown in while on a journey across the country, and more, of which you find out…
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Julian Kostov and Sinéad Matthews & cast in 'Till the Stars Come Down'. Photo: Manuel Harlan Is it even a real wedding if there isn't a punch-up? Set in a former mining community in Nottingham, the wedding at the heart of Till The Stars Come Down is between Sylvia (Sinéad Matthews), a local, and Marek…
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Video transcript: It’s always a huge treat to see Imelda Staunton on stage, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession at the Garrick Theatre was no different. Here she’s acting alongside her real daughter, Bessie Carter. They play mother and daughter in the play, and the two of them just sparked whenever they were on the stage, it…
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Story: Luka (Jack Lowden) is an alcoholic, and his sponsor James (Martin Freeman), is helping him through the 12 steps. They start building up trust and a rapport, but is that enough for when they reach the fifth step, which is about confessing to things you’ve done wrong? Video transcript: I wanted to see The…