The play's the thing
BrenA diary of theatre and music
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The End may not be Happily Ever After
End, the new play from David Eldridge, is the third part of a trilogy followed on from Beginning and Middle. Each play stands alone, but tells part of a picture about relationships. The first play showed a youngish couple meeting for the fi...
Making a song and dance about love
The cancellation1 – well, I hope postponement – of the Renée Fleming show2 at the Barbican meant I had a spare Saturday evening. I didn’t know Handel’s Partenope at all, so this was a chance to put that right. I didn’t know what to expect,...
Wendy’s awfully big adventure
I have to start with a declaration of interest: the first play I saw in a ‘proper’ theatre was Peter Pan. This was in the days (late 1960s) when Peter was played by a woman and before the play was given the pantomime treatment. Wendy Craig...
Where a ghost and a prince meet. And ev’ryone ends in mincemeat
We all know Hamlet, or we think we do – but what we know are versions of it. It’s open to interpretation and can take on a variety of approaches. The play is famously Shakespeare’s longest (as is the title role), so where cuts are made will...
A very entertaining Mr Sloane
When Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane premiered in 1964 was described by the Guardian as “a milk-curdling essay in lower-middle-class nihilism”, whatever that means. Certainly, the subject matter – homosexuality and bisexuality, violence...
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Transplanted in the South from the North of England. Usually found with my nose in a book and my foot in my mouth. I'll just be posting my thoughts about books, theatre, and life, the universe and everything.
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