Posts Tagged ‘Anna Fleischle’
Monday 3 June 2019

In which we get to see Meghan Markle’s father’s Willy.
Before we get into trouble we should elucidate. This is Arthur Millers’ 1949 Death of a Salesman with Wendell Pierce giving us his Willy Loman. It was he who played Robert Zane, father of the character played by the then Ms Markle in Suits. Has anyone actually seen Suits? Does anyone know anyone who has actually seen it?* Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anna Fleischle, Arinzé Kene, Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, entertainment, Ian Bonar, London, Maggie Service, Marianne Elliott, Martins Imhangbe, Miranda Cromwell, play, review, Sharon D Clarke, theatre, Wendell Pierce, west end, Young Vic
Friday 19 October 2018

A Very Very Very Dark Matter certainly is what it says on the tin. But in opening that grubby little tin be warned, we might spoil the contents for you. Continue at your peril. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: A Very Very Very Dark Matter, Anna Fleischle, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Berrington, entertainment, Graeme Hawley, Hans Christian Andersen, Jim Broadbent, Johnetta Eula'Mae Ackles, London, Martin McDonagh, Matthew Dunster, Paul Bradley, Phil Daniels, play, review, The Bridge Theatre, theatre, west end
Friday 27 July 2018

Tricky.
How do you discuss Home, I’m Darling without giving away a key reveal? Well those who reviewed Tamara Harvey’s production when it was at Theatre Clwyd gave it away willy-nilly, but then it is mightily hard to talk of it without doing so. Fortunately we saved reading those reviews until after we’d seen it.
Statistically, of course, most readers won’t ever get to see it anyway so why should one care so much? Despite this, however, we will still endeavour to give away as little away as possible. Which means this will be a faster read for you and you can move on to better things. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anna Fleischle, Barnaby Kay, comedy, Dorfman Theatre, entertainment, Home I'm Darling, Katherine Parkinson, Kathryn Drysdale, Laura Wade, London, National Theatre, play, review, Richard Harrington, Sara Gregory, Sian Thomas, Tamara Harvey, theatre, Theatre Clwyd, west end
Friday 17 November 2017

“This production contains material which may shock and offend” boasts The Exorcist. Here’s 10 reasons why you may be shocked or offended but perhaps not in the way that’s intended: Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adam Cork, Adam Garcia, Anna Fleischle, Ben Hart, Clare Louise Connolly, entertainment, Horror, Jenny Seagrove, John Pielmeier, London, Peter Bowles, Phoenix Theatre, play, review, Sean Mathias, The Exorcist, theatre, thrriller, west end, William Peter Blatty
Friday 25 September 2015
Phil had an uncle whose job as a prison governor meant he was called on to witness some of the last hangings in this country. He also kept the autobiography of Britain’s most ‘celebrated’ hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, on his bookcase and Phil is led to believe, visited the pub that Pierrepoint ran after retiring from execution.
As a child, Phil looked on most of this with a mix of macabre fascination and horror, which was much the same reaction that he had to the first scene in Martin McDonagh‘s, Hangmen. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Albert Pierrepoint, Anna Fleischle, Bronwyn James, comedy, David Morrissey, entertainment, Graeme Hawley, Hangmen, Johnny Flynn, Josef Davies, London, Martin McDonagh, play, Ralph Ineson, Reece Shearsmith, review, Royal Court Theatre, theatre, west end
Saturday 22 November 2014
Misery time at the National.
Just think, you could go and see a matinee of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and John in the evening and come out feeling thoroughly depressed. For that would be the better way round; the latter is shorter than the former’s Act 1. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anna Fleischle, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, David Hare, DV8, Hannes Langolf, Hiran Abeysekera, John, John Waters, Katherine Boo, Lloyd Newsom, London, Lyttelton Theatre, Meera Syal, National Theatre, Olivier Theatre, play, review, Richard Godin, Rufus Norris, theatre, west end
Wednesday 27 March 2013
Here’s a puzzler to confound, should you happen to find yourself at a party surrounded by theatrically persuaded people: What is the connection between Before the Party and the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Give up? Well, the latter wouldn’t be quite the same without the formers’s writer. Academy Award nominee, Hitchcock collaborator and BTP playwright Rodney Ackland is also credited with discovering Chitty star Sally Anne Howes. That’s if you believe the Gospel according to St Wiki. We do. Who would think to make that up?
But his 1949 play (based on a short story by W. Somerset Maugham) is a bit of a puzzler itself. Part family drama, part melodrama, part satire, part comedy and – in this production – bearing absurdist overtones and (rather redundantly) animation. It’s as if Ackland were delving into the darker recesses of Terrance Rattigan’s psyche and percolating it through a wafer thin filter of Joe Orton. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Alex Price, Almeida Theatre, Anna Devlin, Anna Fleischle, Before the Party, Emily Lane, entertainment, June Watson, Katherine Parkinson, London, Matthew Dunster, Michael Thomas, Michelle Terry, off-West End, play, Polly Dartford, review, Rodney Ackland, Stella Gonet, theatre, W. Somerset Maugham