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A VERY GREAT TALENT TO AMUSE
Rival psychopathies emerge from the first moments of “Cornley Drama Society” as Chris (Daniel Fraser) and Robert (Henry Lewis) face off at auditions over which one will be Scrooge and which will be director. Both want both jobs. Chris is nervy, controlling, aspiring to dramaturgical seariousness, attempting deadpan authority as he turns...
OH DEAR…
Event theatre! New from NY! It got Tony and Pulitzer nominations, and smart Broadway people called it “heartwarming: and “best crafted and exactingly directed” (though one briefly brave but finally panicky critic says “silly, nasty, tasteless and in the end, good the...
UNDER AN ALIEN TREE
The suffering and the pity of Gaza affects us all: bitter division on the streets, hysterical demonstrations feeding a violently rising antisemitism. And all across the Anglosphere a cultural undertow of competitive personal victimhood.
So how is it to be young and barely adult, and Jewish, in London now? Sam Grabine...
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep…” – They certainly are when designed by Tom Scutt . And Jordan Fein’s glorious new production will, I think, convert many a Sondheim-sceptic to go deeper into his ironic brilliant darkness and depth, at least for this show. Every scene is a visual treat, evoking remembered childhood illustrations or Breughel paintings: all is carefully l...
DRINK DEEP OF GLORIUMPTIOUS FROBSCOTTLE
The RSC holiday season show offers a rising generation some proper theatrical wonder, away from banal screen CGI and avatar gaming – though it does use a modest share of projections from time to time. Children love home-made miracles and here are ...
