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MAKING HAY
This had to be a short-run red hot sellout, didn’t it? Richard E Grant taking his air of wicked unreliable comedity back after 20 years tothe West End, while actually thrilling couch potatoes in Traitors. And it’s Hay Fever, the comedy of appalling boho-showbiz manners which Noel Coward pretended he wrote im tnree days but actually – as the great Soden bi...
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN LONDON
More than anything this is about atnosphere: Patrick Hamilton’s chronicle in three psychologcally vivid novels is distilled by Simon Reade into two-hours-ten and presented with the same sensitive ear and disciplined sharpness as this company – Troupe – brought to the superb Forsyte Saga. It’s about dreams , wanting to...
THE ECONOMIST AND THE BALLERINA
That “iron streak of tinsel” which Alan Bennett once observed in Nicholas Hytner has again come good, giving us a play about early 20c economic theory which we can go home humming. Literally: I am happy to report that on the way out I both overheard both the words “of course the money supply..” , and “Cezanne”, and several were hummi...
Twelve years ago, Priyanga Burford came upon an unusual, striking story that moved her to admiration and fellowship: Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, like her half-Indian, was one of the first female agents sent from Britain into Nazi-occupied France in the darkest days of WW2. She died, heroic, finally at Dachau. There are biographie, and there has been one dramatic piece, but in ...