The Telegraph5 hours agoAll’s Well That Ends Well: one for Shakespeare completists onlyThe TelegraphThe only point at which I demurred at the wisdoms contained in Judi Dench’s excellent book on Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent was her scoffing dismissal of the idea (posited by her interlocutor, Brendan O’Hea) that Helena, the heroine of All’s Well that Ends Well, is “a bit of a stalker”. …
The Telegraph1 day agoA Christmas Carol, Old Vic: still a wonder, but John Simm is an underwhelming ScroogeThe TelegraphThe return of the Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol – as niftily adapted by Jack Thorne, with threaded, thematically apposite carols its most stirring stroke of dramatic ingenuity – is almost as much a harbinger of the festive season as Slade’s pop perennial Merry Xmas Everybody. Its recurrence seems …
The Telegraph2 days agoAndy Street: ‘It would be absolute sacrilege to sell off Birmingham’s treasures’The Telegraph - Liam KellyA surprising number of Brummies seem to think that Andy Street is still West Midlands mayor. In the 20 minutes or so he is having his photograph taken outside the Birmingham Rep theatre, a stream of passers-by recognise his slight figure and a few call out to him to ask for help with some problem …
The Telegraph3 days agoW1A star Hugh Skinner: ‘We were advised not to tell casting directors we were gay’The Telegraph - Julia Llewellyn SmithIf any actor has cornered the market in nice-but-dim buffoonery, it’s Hugh Skinner. From hapless Will in W1A, to Prince William in The Windsors, to pathetic Harry, boyfriend of the eponymous Fleabag, to another Harry – the younger version of Colin Firth’s character, in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, …
The Telegraph6 days agoWolves on Road, Bush Theatre, review: pedestrian attempt to get a grip on the wild west of cryptoThe TelegraphReal life has overtaken Beru Tessema’s ebullient comedy about the online quicksands of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin –DOGE is also the acronym for the new government department to be headed up by Elon Musk in the forthcoming Trump administration, although it also, of course, refers to the …
The Telegraph6 days agoTimothy West and Prunella Scales: theatre’s greatest love storyThe Telegraph - Louise CarpenterSix decades ago, Timothy West and Prunella Scales were sitting at a set of traffic lights in Brighton when he asked her to marry him. Just as he was going to kiss her – it was a yes, of course – the lights changed to green. ‘Oh bother!’ Pru cried as the car revved into first gear with no kiss. It …
