Justin Salinger is currently managing to simultaneously appear in two shows in two different parts of the country. While he's been coming home to Stratford, his recorded voice provides the narration for this is where we got to when you came in. Having given the new venue a test drive the Bush Theatre returns to its original home for one last time, ( Read more... )

Second in the Trevor Nunn Season at TRH is a transfer for his Chichester production of the existential comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I went with Jan, who'd seen the play before and liked it, and vanessaw, who hadn't seen this particular one before but is a big Stoppard fan - my own feelings on the playwright have tended to be more mixed. ( Read more... )

I normally write these reviews once I get home to my laptop, having mulled a show over for a bit. But this time I knew I would get distracted, because two hours after Women Beware Women finished I was sitting down to watch a different show. So in a slight change, I scribbled my review in a notebook after the play, so I can type it up here now ( Read more... )

James Graham, the author of Tory Boyz, goes from gay politicians to advertising execs with The Whisky Taster at the Bush. The hottest young advertising team, Nicola and Barney, have a secret weapon: Barney suffers from synaesthesia, the condition that causes the senses to all get bundled together, so for instance flavours have a sound, people's ( Read more... )