25 February 2019 5***** Sam Yates’ 2017 London production of David Mamet’s ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ made a big splash when it opened and now, the same production is touring the UK – what joy! Watching this extraordinarily well-written play (1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner) with a tremendous cast was like sitting with a warm blanket enveloping […]
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24 February 2019 5***** Written 111 years ago, The Wind in the Willows has firmly become a classic of English literature and has been adapted many times and in many ways. Kenneth Grahame’s gentle story of animals has, at the heart of it, themes of friendship, good over bad and respect. And now, IN THE
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20 February 2019 2** THE MIRROR CRACK’D Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff from the novel by Agatha Christie Agatha Christie remains a potent force. Her popularity has seen a resurgence with recent TV series written by Sarah Phelps. Brand new stage adaptations are less common – ‘The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side’ has made it
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3*** 12 February 2019 The concept of people running a helpline who are actually in need of help themselves is not a new one, but maybe setting it in some kind of apocalyptic future is. The volunteers at the Brightline Helpline arrive at work wearing gasmasks and discuss various disasters that have befallen Earth in
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6 February 2019 5***** David Tomlinson became the archetypal English gentlemen in Hollywood films in the 1960s and 1970s; diffident, correct, slightly daft and always likeable. Before then he was a mainstay of British romantic comedies and films set in WW2. He was a character actor who you were comfortable with, you almost felt you
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