Apollo Theatre, London ***
There can’t be many plays where actors spend quite so much time with their backs to the audience. Continue reading
Apollo Theatre, London ***
There can’t be many plays where actors spend quite so much time with their backs to the audience. Continue reading
The Government Inspector/Lee Miller, Chichester Theatre
The Government Inspector\Six Pictures of Lee Miller (Chichester) – Carole Woddis
*** (three stars\****)four stars)
It was a strange day to be seeing anything, never mind a double bill in West Sussex. How could anything, even Gogol’s gloriously ripe social farce or a musical about an American social rebel from upstate New York have anything useful to say about the reality of mayhem brought to one’s own backyard. On 7\705, I left London with a strange sense of unreality and returned at midnight with even stronger feelings of misgivings to a reality I really didn’t care to be returning to. Continue reading
Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London
We need heroes and heroines. Was Rachel Corrie one or a hopelessly naïve innocent. Certainly it seems she came into this world already fully formed. At the end of this 90-minute solo `tribute’ to the peace activist killed in Gaza, a short video plays. It is Corrie, delivering a speech on children and World Hunger, potent in its eloquence, blazing in its idealism. She is aged 10. Continue reading