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Cock at The Royal Court

The Royal Court’s attic theatre has been remodelled to resemble a small circle round which the audience sits and gawps, as if for a cockfight; but, no, the self-consciously blunt title of Mike Bartlett’s new play doesn’t refer to the fowl that ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Ben Whishaw,  Andrew Scott

The Habit of Art at the Lyttleton, SE1

Few composers and librettists have been more happily matched than Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden, but few men more unhappily mismatched. The poet was overbearing and preachy, the composer retiring and prickly. And when Auden told Britten that he ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: W. H. Auden,  Alex Jennings

Mixed up North at Wilton’s, E1

There are some pretty mixed-up people in the northern towns, where the old industries have disappeared and unemployment would be high even without a recession. There are also plenty of cross-cultural relationships in towns where an influx of Asian ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Nick Griffin,  Bollywood

I Found My Horn at Hampstead Theatre, NW3

Men react to the arrival of middle age and the crises that come with it in very different ways. Some take up cricket or paragliding or marathons, some take up with late-flowering Lolitas. At the age of 43 the arts journalist Jasper Rees, finding ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Guy Lewis,  Dave Lee (musician)

The Kreutzer Sonata at the Gate, W11

Like most Englishmen, I tend not to talk to the person opposite me on the train, fearing that he may be an obsessed Ancient Mariner, keen to talk about albatrosses from London to Edinburgh. But who wouldn’t want to hear Hilton McRae’s Pozdynyshev ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  11 Nov 2009

British theatre is booming

There’s a weird correlation between Gordon Brown’s jowls and the faces of our leading impresarios. The more the PM dolefully droops, the more many of our theatre people brighten. Britain may remain in a recession that could still deepen, yet the ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Enron Corporation,  Live Nation,  Andrew Lloyd Webber,  Nicholas Hytner,  Gordon Brown

Architecting at the Barbican Pit, EC2

It would be easy to throw critical insults (self-indulgent? verbose?) at this weird meditation on American destruction and almost equally disastrous reconstruction — especially as it ran ten minutes when it first appeared in New York and now lasts ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Margaret Mitchell,  Rhett Butler

A Tender Thing at the Northern Stage, Newcastle

Suppose Friar Lawrence’s private postal service got his letter through to the banished Romeo as he sat festering in Mantua. Or suppose Juliet woke from her fatal-seeming coma before Romeo swallowed the poison he’d bought from that apothecary. ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  5 Nov 2009

Shraddha at Soho Theatre, W1

Boris Johnson may be thrilled and the Queen impressed by the progress made on the Olympic badlands in East London, but their pleasure is emphatically not shared by the fictional Romanies in Natasha Langridge’s lively if sentimental new play. For ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Boris Johnson

Presence: Collected Stories by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller is still sometimes seen as a preachy writer, forever parading a left-leaning conscience for the good of less elevated minds. That’s an absurdly shallow view of his plays, and his short stories make it seem a hideous travesty. Who would ...

From BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE, Times Online,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Arthur Miller

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