A rejigging of the text including a more authentic portrayal of the First Nation narrator Killara (Naarah) brings the story of a group of English convicts transported to Australia along with their red-coated guardians to fertile life. In between the floggings and executions, the disparate group attempts to mount a production of George Farquhar’s The … Read more
Rose Theatre, Kingston until May 4 (UK Tour until June 1) Tickets: 020 8174 0090 (stageberry.com) Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical play requires delicate handling. Experimental in form, with a narrator addressing the audience as well as engaging in the unfolding drama, it is as emotionally fragile as the glass animals collected by the young, disabled Laura … Read more
Walking up to Victoria House at Bloomsbury Square in glitzy open-toed heels and a wrapped polka-dot white and navy knee-length dress, I am welcomed by a grand, beautiful neoclassical building. On our way into the venue, we are given our tickets in the form of an aeroplane ticket from London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare International … Read more
Fairy tales by the brothers Grimm inspire hugely enjoyable Christmas productions at both Covent Garden theatres, and there is nothing grim about them, apart from the usual grisly ends of the wolf in Red Riding Hood and the cannibalistic witch in Hansel and Gretel. Wolf, Witch, Giant, Fairy, at the Linbury Theatre, downstairs from the … Read more
