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A SWELL PARTY, EVENTUALLY
We “Call the Midwife” fans all suspected there was more pizazz to nurse Trixie than bicycling round Poplar in the 1950s, and indeed Helen George always was a dead classy, RAM- trained musical-theatre professional. In the vast dour Barbican hall she’s a golden breeze of a presence, as happy in showy absurdities as in the famous plaintive be...
HOME AGAIN IN TRIUMPH
Can it really be nearly twenty years since this show about WW1 galloped into world theatre history on this stage? A maverick experiment with two life-size puppet horses (and let’s not forget the goose) it has been seen by nine million people in a dozen countries and several languages, including Mandarin. Its star Joey met Quee...
THE SAD SERIOUS COMEDY OF DEATH
A Devon cottage kitchen, opening to a tangled spring garden: beyond this idyll a semi- abstract tangle of branches around a great circle of sky: a hole , perhaps a portal. For in a back room, unseen, an old man is nearing the end of his life’s journey. In such times a kitchen can fill with family and visitors: weary ...
A FUNNY SHOW HAPPENENED ON THE WAY TO THE COLISEUM
Ancient Greece is suffering drought and near-famine, and on a small island (population 16 and a half) prayers to Dionysius (“Dionysus, end this crisis!”) are getting nowhere. The Tyrant of Athens summons scattered Greece to a prayer competition, meeeting little enthusiasm from the grumpy middle-age...
THREE WOMEN AND A DISTANT QUEEN
Ava Pickett’s breathlessly exciting début play won, at the Almeida, both a prestigious prize and mixed reviews. As a first-timer, seeing its transfer to the West End, I can say that it well deserves the move, and that it keeps all the unsettling intimacy and power that split the critics. And it’s piquant ...