Category: West End
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Orlando, starring Emma Corrin, Garrick Theatre, Dec 2022 Twice during Orlando at the Garrick Theatre, Emma Corrin says 'gosh' and to my ear, it was her Princess Diana in The Crown saying it. I'm hoping it was intentional as it would fit with the contemporary references which are peppered throughout Neil Bartlett's adaptation…
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A victim of rescheduling because of theatre lockdowns, Good, starring David Tennant, finally gets in front of an audience but is it worth the wait? Good, Harold Pinter Theatre Oct 2022. Photo: Rev Stan Tennant is a household name because of his screen work, but he is also a seasoned stage actor, taking on an…
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Silence is based on a non-fiction book by journalist Kavita Puri who interviewed people who lived through the partition of India in 1947 and subsequently settled in the UK. Silence, Donmar Warehouse Sep 2022 The play is co-authored by Sonali Bhattacharyya, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Ishy Din and Alexandra Wood and is structured as a series…
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There are two types of standing ovation: The ones where there is a slow trickle of people getting to their feet and the rarer ones where the entire audience leaps up en masse. Jack Holden's Cruise at the Apollo Theatre was in the latter category. Jack Holden and John Patrick Elliott in Cruise, Apollo Theatre…
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Jamie Lloyd is a genius. There I've said it. How else would you describe a director who has his cast seated for most of the play while giving understated performances that somehow manage to amp up the emotion to 11 on the dial? The Seagull, Harold Pinter Theatre July 2022 In fact, the performances are…
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Director Jeremy Herrin has chosen to have two actors playing Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie so that when he is acting as narrator, it is an older, maturer Tom. This older Tom, played by Paul Hilton, sets a reflective, melancholy, almost listless tone to the play, but while he hovers around the edges of…
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You know those times you are watching a play utterly transfixed by what is happening on stage? Yep, well, that's how I felt watching Ruth Wilson in The Human Voice. The Human Voice, Harold Pinter Theatre Mar 2022 The signs were good. She's a fabulous actress, and she's partnered with director Ivo Van Hove before…
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Are you allowed to call yourself a theatre fan if you haven't seen The Mousetrap, the West End's longest-running play? Possibly. But I've ticked that box now. Photo by Rev Stan So what was it like? Well, it's a fun, frothy West End play that is in part carried by its status of being long-running…
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Anna X by Joseph Charlton is a fresh, contemporary play set in New York that explores identity and acceptance in the modern age. Anna, played by Emma Corrin, arrives in the city to start an internship at an ultra-trendy fashion and art magazine. She has ambitions to open her own art gallery. Other than that,…