Orange Tree, Richmond, London ****
Runs: 2hrs with an interval
Review of perf seen Dec 28, 2019:
© Johan Persson, Martin Hutson as Reverend James Morell and Claire Lams as his wife, Candida – happily married bliss…intensity and twinkling good humour…
A free thinking poet confronts a charismatic Christian socialist preacher. In between them stands a woman loved by both men. Which one will win her hand? Continue reading
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, London (***)
© Richard Davenport, Dorothea Myer-Bennett (Julia Craven), Rupert Young (Leonard Charteris)
Like a limbering up for Man and Superman written a decade later, George Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer is a slightly watered down version of the later play with GBS at his most pugnaciously playful yet more than a little irritating, for all his `enlightened’ views. Continue reading
Hampstead Theatre, London (***)
© Alastair Muir, Jack Laskey as Aircraftman Ross
This is a strange subject for Howard Brenton if only because T E Lawrence (aka Aircraftman Ross and later T E Shaw of the Royal Tank Corps) is one so indelibly associated with the film and the Rattigan play, coincidentally being revived next month at Chichester. Continue reading
© Johan Persson
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London
`How he does talk’, says Nicholas Prevost, resplendent in cream satin as a cross between Don Giovanni’s Commandant and Roebuck Ramsden, a guardian of George Bernard Shaw’s female protagonist, Ann Whitefield.