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Committee, Donmar Warehouse
A memorable 2015 parliamentary select committee hearing asked Kids Company CEO Camila Batmanghelidjh and chair of trustees Alan Yentob whether the organisation was ever fit for purpose. Tom Deering, Hadley Fraser and Josie Rourke’s new verbatim musical – think This House meets London Road – asks … Continue reading
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Tagged alan yentob, Camila Batmanghelidjh, charity, children, committee, donmar warehouse, government, hadley fraser, josie rourke, kids, kids company, london, musical, parliament, politicians, review, select committee, social care, theartsdesk, theatre, tom deering
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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, Duke of York’s Theatre
Sacred and profane, trivial and profound blissfully combine in this irresistible, Olivier Award-winning tale of choirgirls gone wild. Lee Hall, of Billy Elliot fame, adapts Alan Warner’s 1998 novel with a similarly shrewd grasp of youthful hope amidst challenging circumstances, … Continue reading
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Tagged catholic, choir, comedy, duke of yorks theatre, edinburgh, elo, girls, lee hall, london, musical, oban, our ladies of perpetual succour, play, review, school, scotland, singing, teenagers, theartsdesk, theatre, vicky featherstone, west end
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse
It’s a bigly Trump-fest over at the Donmar, with adaptor Bruce Norris determined to make Brecht great again – or at least pointedly contemporary. Despite a legal disclaimer in the knowing prologue, the current tangerine regime looms large, replacing (or … Continue reading
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Tagged brecht, bruce norris, chicago, donmar warehouse, gangster, hitler, lenny henry, london, play, review, the resistible rise of arturo ui, theartsdesk, theatre, trump
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Death Takes A Holiday, Charing Cross Theatre
“I’m Death.” “And you’re on holiday?” Well, there’s really no way to disguise the preposterousness of this show’s premise, nor to reconcile its winking humour and self-serious grand romance. Thus, Thom Southerland’s London premiere wisely diverts attention to its seductive … Continue reading
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Tagged charing cross theatre, chris peluso, death, death takes a holiday, donald trump, drama, first world war, great war, london, love, maury yeston, meet joe black, musical, review, romance, theartsdesk, theatre, thom southerland, world war one, zoe doano
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Nice Fish, Harold Pinter Theatre
Mark Rylance was once renowned for skipping thank yous to agents, friends and everyone he’s ever met in award speeches and instead giving us a blast of Minnesotan prose poet Louis Jenkins. Now the two men have co-created an oddball … Continue reading
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Tagged harold pinter theatre, london, louis jenkins, mark rylance, nice fish, play, review, theartsdesk, theatre, west end
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Side Show, Southwark Playhouse
Composer Henry Krieger’s highly anticipated Dreamgirls arrives later this month, but first up is the UK premiere of his less well-known but thoroughly likeable Side Show, based on the real story of a pair of conjoined twins who became 1930s … Continue reading
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Tagged laura pitt-pulford, louise dearman, musical, review, side show, southwark playhouse, theartsdesk
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No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre
We are lost in the wood. In the limbo state between dream and reality, memory and present, youth and age, companionship and seclusion, life and death, struggle and success, fame and obscurity. Pinter often visits that place of in between, … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, gandalf, ian mckellen, london, lord of the rings, no man's land, owen teale, patrick stewart, pinter, play, review, sean mathias, star strek, theartsdesk, theatre, west end, wyndhams theatre, x men
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Pick of the Week
Poldark, Woody Allen, Proms pleasures and Blackpool illuminations. Read my full theartsdesk newsletter here
Posted in Art, Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged alvin ailey, anna maxwell martin, art, best, blackpool, cafe society, dance, film, hampstead theatre, labyrinth, motherhood, music, neon, pick of the week, poldark, proms, sadlers wells, sharon horgan, theartsdesk, theatre, tv, victoria, woody allen
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Some Girl(s), Park Theatre
Neil LaBute’s exercise in self-flagellation, first seen in 2005 and adapted for film in 2013, offers his familiar misanthropic take on the battle of the sexes. This one concerns Guy (Charles Dorfman), engaged to be married and embarking on a … Continue reading
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Tagged neil labute, park theatre, review, some girls, theartsdesk
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