Category: Theatre

Stage and Screen

Would you like to go to a musical about two teenage (18 and 19) Chicago college boys who murder a 14 year-old boy in Chicago for fun?

The Play’s the Thing

Modern plays are not always disastrous but you sit in the stalls for two hours (they are usually short) at your peril.

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Freedom Day

Yesterday was “Freedom Day” in England. (They do it differently in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland so their administrations can feel free.)

Pirates

The Union Theatre was a favourite when I worked in the City. Handy to walk to and they reliably staged impressive, small- scale musicals.

Good Eggers

Count Egmont was a 17th century Dutch freedom fighter seeking independence from the Spanish Empire in the Low Lands in what became known as the Eighty Years War (1568  – 1648). His story was romanticised by Goethe in his 1787 play, Egmont.

Present Laughter

“What is love? ’tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What’s to come is still unsure:” (Twelfth Night)

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By Jove! By Jeeves

When I was at uni, as the young say, I looked forward to seeing Jeeves in London. It was launched in 1975 and with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s music, Plum’s wit and a helping hand from Alan Ayckbourn was a sure bet to run longer than The Mousetrap.

Blithe Spirit

Plum Duff, aka figgy-dowdy, is dished up on Sundays in the Royal Navy depicted by Patrick O’Brian. Next month there is lashings of Plum on Sunday afternoons on Radio 4; Uncle Fred in the Springtime and Leave it to Psmith, with excellent casts.Details on the PG Wodehouse Society website.