Geraint Wyn Davies is currently on stage at the Stratford Festival playing Elyot in Noel Coward's Private Lives and Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Both plays opened last week. Reviews for Private Lives are available here and for Merry Wives here.

Here's a promotional video of Private Lives:

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I love that robe ( Read more... )

The Last Confession
Directed by Jonathan Church
Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto (seen on May 8 and 9, 2014)

The Last Confession, written by Roger Crane, explores the mystery surrounding the sudden death of Pope John Paul I who was found dead only 33 days after his election in 1978 ( Read more... )

Coriolanus
Directed by Jousie Rourke
Live broadcast from the National Theatre, London, UK on January 30, 2014

This week I attended another live broadcast from London. National Theatre's production of Coriolanus was screened in cinemas around the world from the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden.

Coriolanus is one of Shakespeare's lesser known ( Read more... )

It's been a while since my last post. So it's about time that I share my impressions on this year's season in Stratford, Ontario. I've seen 4 plays in total: The Thrill, The Three Musketeers, Mary Stuart and Measure for Measure. Let's start with a review of The Thrill which I had the pleasure of seeing twice. When someone in the B&B I stayed in ( Read more... )

Written by Joe DiPietro, The Last Romance is a bittersweet romantic comedy that I've seen in Hamilton's Theatre Aquarius (Ontario) earlier this year ( Read more... )

Blue/Orange is a play written by Joe Penhall which I had the pleasure of seeing performed in Kingston, Ontario earlier this year. It's about a patient of African origin (Christopher, played by Ayinde Blake) who has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder and who claims to be the son of an African dictator. His physician Dr. Bruce ( Read more... )

The National Theatre, London, has established a wonderful method to reach a greater audience by broadcasting live performances to cinemas around the world. I was fortunate to live in one of the four German cities included in this programme. On January 17, 2013 Arthur Wing Pinero’s farce "The Magistrate" was broadcast, starring John Lithgow ( Read more... )

Poetic License
59E59 Theatres, New York City, 15.2.2012

At the time I had booked my flight to New York, I had no idea that Geraint Wyn Davies would be there at the same time doing a play at 59E59 Theatres. It was one of these lucky coincidences that make life so exciting.

Written by Jack Canfora, Poetic License begins with Katherine (Natalie Kuhn) and ( Read more... )

Shatner’s World: We just Live in it...
Music Box Theatre, New York City, 14.2.2012

William Shatner aka Captain Kirk has been my favourite star since 1982 when Star Trek aired on German television. So, I couldn’t let the opportunity pass to see him live on stage in a one-man show called Shatner’s World: We just live in it.... The show had been ( Read more... )

The Pitmen Painters
Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton, Ontario, 10.2.2012

The Pitmen Painters is one of the loveliest plays I’ve ever seen on stage. Written by Lee Hall, The Pitmen Painters is based on the true story of a group of miners from Ashington, Northumberland, who took an evening class in Art Appreciation, funded by the Workers’ Educational ( Read more... )