Chekhov sets the Globe alight A new production of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters somehow shoehorns a whole world onto one small candlelit stage. This is the first time a Chekhov play has been performed at Shakespeare’s Globe and the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse might just be the perfect fit for this intense journey back to provincial […]
Oedipus – Old Vic
Hollywood star and Oscar winner Rami Malek plays Oedipus opposite Olivier Award winner Indira Varma as Jocasta. Hofesh Shechter and Matthew Warchus co-direct Ella Hickson’s new version of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, the former directing the dance elements and the latter the drama.
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at the Candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
If ‘Shakespeare’s Plays’ was a topic on ‘Pointless’, Cymbeline might just be a winning answer. This production, at the 340-seat Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, was enough to convince me that’s an ill-deserved state of affairs – it’s a play that deserves to be better known.
The Little Foxes
‘There are people who must finish what they start and not look back, and I am one of those people,’ declares Regina Giddens (Anne-Marie Duff) towards the end of The Little Foxes. While the play is set in America’s South in 1900, it felt like a line that could have been spoken by Lady Macbeth.
The Anchor and Hope, Southwark
A Home from Home and Gastropub that Stands the Test of Time. I moved to London almost straight after finishing University in the early 1980s. I’d love to say that I visited the Anchor and Hope at that time, but the truth is it wasn’t for another fifteen years or so that it opened and […]
The Constituent at The Old Vic
James Corden returns to London stage in political drama. Sometimes the timing of a play’s staging makes the production resonate particularly strongly with the audience. So it is with The Constituent, a new play written by Joe Penhall
Prosecco Fridays at OXBO Hilton Bankside London
Friday fun at OXBO Fridays, don’t we all love them? With a long weekend stretching ahead, Friday night becomes the perfect excuse to let your hair down. Located at the Hilton Bankside, OXBO Bankside offers a stylish and vibrant setting between Southbank and Borough Market, just a short walk from London Bridge. OXBO has recently […]