Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union
Heavy brows and chiselled features abound in the aesthetically convincing cast of David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message To The Woman He Once Loved In The Former Soviet Union, co-directed…
The Wind in the Willows: a Toad Hall success
With the arrival of the summer weather and the onset of garden play season, it feels distinctly appropriate for a theatrical rendition of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows…
The Winterling springs into life
Frank Lawton previews The Winterling “Hold on, you uncomfortable?” stabs David Shields as Mr West to Patsy (played by Leo Suter), but the challenge-cum-accusation can be levered just as much…
Every director has their own little Quirkes
One Sunday morning, I was enjoying a warming sip of honeyed porridge at Prêt à Manger. More importantly, I was on the lookout for the director who brought to Oxford’s…
Holy recommended: Comic Mysteries preview
“A series of crude, clownish retellings of different tales from scripture.” The Gospels, satirised in sketch comedy. As superb as Life of Brian definitely is, I will admit that (as a…
Ah’m not sure about this one, pal
A theatrical aesthetic is a difficult thing. Sometimes it will improve a production, bringing light and clarity to the story’s key themes and ideas. On the other hand, it can weaken…
Must be fixing to see Frost/Nixon
Was Richard Nixon shaking my hand? Not quite; it was Aleks Cvetkovic, speaking through a thick imitative accent (which apparently took hours of Youtube-watching to perfect). Those hours certainly…
Ed Barr-Sim’s Frost/Nixon rehearsal diary: Part Three – Accepting the Facts
Opening night is now only a week and a half away: its desired imminence and imminent nature are both causes for concern. The actual acting and rehearsing bit has slightly slowed…
