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A GHOSTLESS DICKENS TREAT FOR CHRISTMAS
This is wonderful: a three-hander adaptation by Abigail Pickard Price, with the Guildford Shakespeare Company. They’re well up to the new-vaudeville style of the 1980’s Reduced Shakespeare, only with better costumes. Three deft, fast-moving actors play everybody, with instant hat-swopping and the hurling...
LADIES WHO LURCH
The Lord Chamberlain took a bit of handling to let this play’s louche presumptions of extramarital liaisons be flaunted onstage: and one public morality campaigner shouted from the box at its premiere when he did let its suggestion of female sex-before-marriage creep pas them . It shows us two wives of ten set...
A BEAR WHO DESERVES HIS STATION
This could have been awful , a desecration of the children’s favourite which became a national icon of reassurance when he sat down to tea with the late Queen. But Jessica Swale’s book, tweaked from the originals and the first film, full of self-referential jokes, and larded with Christmas jokes (“I...
GRIEF, GUILT, CONSCIENCE
A great bright disc of moon overhangs the old tree in the storm, as it falls in the tumult of sound that could be war. It’s 1948: Arthur Miller’s America scarred by the losses of war. Sometimes the big will be the sun over the Kellers’ morning garden where bluff old Jo...
ABSURD, TRANSCENDENT, JOYFUL
Forget Ancient Greece and the films inspired by the suitors of royal Parthenope, this is Handel in comic-opera mood (one can’t always be writing Zadok or Messiah). He hurled himself cheerfully into the absurd, and Christopher Alden’s joyfully barking-mad production from 2...
