The reviews for Time and the Conways have been a bit muted, possibly because it's Rupert Goold's debut directing at the National Theatre, and the man who turned Macbeth into a Japanese horror movie and Six Characters in Search of an Author into a reality TV show was expected to similarly shake up J B Priestley's play. In fact it's a fairly ( Read more... )

vanessaw and I went to King Lear at the Young Vic last night; we were going to go with pretinama and his other half but it turned out they couldn't make it. Luckily at the last minute Ian from the coffee posses and Vanessa's friend Marta were able to come along in their place. Rupert Goold's production was slated by the critics when it first opened in Liverpool, ( Read more... )

I don't think I've ever seen quite so many people rush at the interval to read the reviews posted outside the theatre, in a desperate attempt to work out what the hell's going on. Of the Pinter plays I've seen so far, No Man's Land is by far the most abstract, bordering on the Beckett. Hirst, an ageing, alcoholic but successful writer (Michael ( Read more... )

Even without a certain naked horse-boy dominating Shaftesbury Avenue, the Gielgud is still a pretty imposing theatre.

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I studied Macbeth for my O'Level English and this is the fourth production of the play I've seen on stage. I went with vanessaw, who hadn't quite managed to finish reading the Charles & Mary Lamb adaptation for kids. So it's fair to say between us we can give a balanced view of the production starring Patrick Stewart and ( Read more... )