A witty workplace comedy enlivens a medieval tale Cult British sitcom The Office (2001) set the standard for comedy drama about apparently unremarkable people. The show’s co-creator, Stephen Merchant, said in an interview that a great story “jolts [a person] out of their life and gives them a way of reframing it”. There couldn’t be […]
Kindling – Park Theatre
“If they loved me and I loved them, surely they will love each other” – or The One Where Five Perimenopausal Women Get Lost In a Forest There is an old joke that every woman should find a man who is a good cook; a man who is a good listener; a man who is […]
Lee – Park Theatre
Portrait of Lee Krasner standing defiantly outside Jackson Pollock’s shadow “Lee” is a compelling new play bringing to life abstract expressionist artist Lee Krasner working in her Long Island studio. Looking back at her tempestuous marriage to fellow painter Jackson Pollock (of the famous drip works) and her compromised status as a woman artist, the […]
(the) Woman, Park Theatre Review
The messy underbelly of motherhood M is a woman. She’s in the first stages of her career, but is already a successful playwright. She’s married. And as Jane Upton’s play starts, she becomes a mother – surely now she has everything? Holding her baby girl, she promises “I’ll be perfect for you.” Real life, though, […]
Bette and Joan, Park Theatre, Finsbury Park
To paraphrase Sunset Boulevard’s Norma Desmond, “I am big. It’s the pictures that got smaller,” Bette and Joan could do with a bigger stage so more people can enjoy this wonderful show.