“The performances by the young actors were excellent and consistent, bearing in mind the hundreds of characters they were asked to portray…It would have been an ambitious undertaking for the National or the RSC to mount The Last Days of Mankind. For a drama school, albeit with the co-operation of a major theatre, to present such an accomplished, original and successful production is a real achievement.”
Read MoreThe set of Royal & Derngate Northampton’s DANCING AT LUGHNASA transports the audience to another world. Birds chirp offstage, and a realistic approximation of evening sunlight bathes the set which is at once indoors and...
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Through the 1970s and 80s and much of the 1990 Terence Rattigan was rather out of favour. However,...
Read MorePrequels and sequels are quite common nowadays especially with Star Wars, J. R. R. Tolkien stories, Star Trek and even Jane Eyre. For Shakespeare it’s a bit of a novelty. In principle it would certainly be interesting to know...
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Welsh National Opera’s Lohengrin at the Birmingham Hippodrome was breathtakingly good. From the...
Read MoreBefore this evening, I had no frame of reference for Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills, unlike, it seemed, much of the audience – the older members who had watched the 1979 TV version, the group of students in the back of...
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