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A DARKNESS FROM THE PAST, WITH MODERN ECHOES
Fittingly in ou age of outing, condemnation and cancellation there have within a twelvemonth been three plays about the 17c Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins: The Ungodly, A Tryal of Witches, and now this very classy adaptation by Ava Pickett of AK Blakemore’s book, The Manningtree Witches. The ...
1939: GLOBAL MOMENT , INTIMATE PAIN
There are some tremendous moments in the last ten minutes of this late-period Arthur Miller play: some from Pearl Chanda as Sylvia, some from Eli Gelb as her emotionally disintegrating husband Phillip and Alex Waldman as the doctor, Harry, who has been trying to heal her of “hysterical paralysis”. It become...
A THOUGHTFUL ANGER
We need to know and feel something beyond the daily global news; sometimes theatre can place us carefully and mercilessly in the room and try to make us understand the experiences of those caught up in war, and the political forces sweeping over them. Nearly twenty years ago Nicholas Kent did this by commissioning, collating and ...
A 1920’s BIRD OF PARADISE IN THE HENCOOP
Trust Trevor Nunn to make this a bit of an event: a rarely-seen Noel Coward play set with ferocious accuracy and style in its birth-year 1925. Unapologetic curtain-drops between each of the four scenes; no fewer than three sets of French windows opening on lawns and a distant folly beyond; young people storm...
THE MARY ANN WHO BECAME GEORGE ELIOT
It’s 1842; Bird Grove is the handsome house near Coventry which Robert Evans bought in his retirement from managing a grand estate. With her brother Isaac married, the devout, churchgoing Evans believed that the respectability of their new household (rather than a humble estate cottage) would help to ...