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Trouble in Mind

The Print Room at the Coronet, London (****)

© Hugo Glendinning, Ncuti Gatwa (budding young actor, John Nevins) with Tanya Moodie's Wiletta Mayer in the play-within-the-play...

© Hugo Glendinning, Ncuti Gatwa (budding young actor, John Nevins) with Tanya Moodie’s Wiletta Mayer in the play-within-the-play…

Like the Almeida, The Print Room at the Coronet has a very unique atmosphere that can – or cannot – lend itself to certain productions. This historic site, first a theatre (by the same architect, W G R Sprague, who designed London’s Aldwych and Wndhams theatres) then a cinema and now returned to a theatre, couldn’t be more perfect for Laurence Boswell’s Theatre Royal Bath, Ustinov Studio transfer. Continue reading

The Mother

The Tricycle Theatre, London (****)

© Mark Douet

© Mark Douet

After The Father comes its companion piece, The Mother. Having carried off acting honours with Kenneth Cranham in The Father (shortly to be revived again in the West End), the Theatre Royal Bath and the Tricycle continue their showcasing of Florian Zeller, the French playwright and novelist. Continue reading