Kim Cattrall, well-known for her role in Sex and the City as Samantha Jones has returned to London to star with Matthew Macfadyen in Noel Coward’s comedy, Private Lives. They play Amanda and Elyot, respectively, a divorced couple who meet again five years after divorcing and when both are on th[...]
February 25th, 2010 - 6:45 am § in Uncategorized
Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen in Private Lives
February 24th, 2010 - 11:05 pm § in Uncategorized
The Little Dog Laughed
Resolutely American The Little Dog Laughed deftly satirises Hollywood’s eternal hypocrisy about sex, even today, as the play reminds us there are still no openly gay leading men in Tinseltown. Diane is a top Hollywood agent who wants to make a movie of a hit New York play about male lovers. She [...]
February 24th, 2010 - 10:48 pm § in Uncategorized
The future of arts funding
The theatre sector is concerned, and rightly so, about what might happen to central government support for the arts after the forthcoming general election. If the Tories will, can they be trusted? Will the scale of the public deficit mean the Labours will have to start taking back the grants offer[...]
February 24th, 2010 - 7:14 am § in Reviews
Measure for Measure
With its emphasis on political corruption Shakespeare’s complex comedy is very much a play for today. Michael Attenborough’s modern-dress production is clear, coherent and very good on individual psychology, although it doesn’t pursue the contemporary resonances as rigorously as [...]
February 24th, 2010 - 4:57 am § in Uncategorized
A Lamentable Tragedy
This is one of those theatre experiences that requires the audience to make an effort. Turning up for this site-specific show which is played out over two floor of an old motorcycle showroom could disappoint you if you don’t make the effort. There are some traditional elements to this ¬promena[...]
February 23rd, 2010 - 7:00 am § in Reviews
Heaven
I had assumed Simon Stephens would have reworked his short two-hander since the summer when the Traverse gave it a breakfast reading on the ÂEdinburgh fringe. But here it is in a fuller but still bare-bones production for A Play, a Pie and a Pint, the lunchtime theatre season, with the same oddba[...]
