Laura Silverman
Laura Silverman
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- Laura writes about theatre, pop and books for The Times and the Daily Mail. She also contributes to Radio 4.
Articles by Laura Silverman
The Winslow Boy, Old Vic
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Terence Rattigan's beautifully spoken characters are a passionate lot in this gripping story of a father's fight to prove his son's innocence. Lindsay Posner's production of the 1946 play succors and... Read more... |
The Man Who Pays the Piper, Orange Tree Theatre
Monday, 18 March 2013
Staged in 1931, The Man Who Pays the Piper appealed to women who had gone to work (and become the master of the house) while men were fighting in the First World War, but were subjugated once they... Read more... |
Paper Dolls, Tricycle Theatre
Thursday, 07 March 2013
Five male Filipinos in Tel Aviv live double lives. By day, they care for dying Orthodox Jews; by night, they are a drag act, the Paper Dolls. Based on real life, this play tells an incredible story... Read more... |
Dancing on the Edge, Series Finale, BBC Two
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Stephen Poliakoff's slow-burning drama had turned into a propulsive whodunnit by this final episode, hurtling towards a resolution with panache and surprise. The five-part mini-series about a black... Read more... |
The Tailor-Made Man, Arts Theatre
Saturday, 23 February 2013
This stylish, witty musical celebrates the 50-year love affair between the first openly gay film star, William Haines, and Jimmy Shields, a set decorator. It embraces the fashion of the Twenties, the... Read more... |
Desolate Heaven, Theatre 503
Monday, 11 February 2013
In a draining first work, Ailís Ní Ríain infuses a coming-of-age saga with Irish folklore. The outline sounds gripping enough: burdened with caring for their ill parents, two teenage friends run... Read more... |
DVD: The Last Days of Dolwyn
Tuesday, 05 February 2013
Years before Cleopatra (1963), Richard Burton played an orphaned shopkeeper in a quaint melodrama. It was his film debut. The Last Days of Dolwyn is written and directed by Emlyn... Read more... |
Anjin: The Shogun and the English Samurai, Sadler's Wells
Friday, 01 February 2013
There is never a dull moment in this three-hour historical epic, even if it is not always clear what is going on. Directed by Gregory Doran, of the RSC, Anjin follows the 17th-century story... Read more... |
Gruesome Playground Injuries, Gate Theatre
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo put him in the running for a Pulitzer in 2010. Deservedly so. Set during the Iraq war and featuring a talking tiger (played with verve on Broadway by... Read more... |
American Justice, Arts Theatre
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
For all its ruminative merits, Richard Vergette's drama is not the “searing political thriller” it purports to be. It raises lots of interesting questions, but they get in the way of any deep emotive... Read more... |
Somersaults, Finborough Theatre
Saturday, 05 January 2013
“What should it matter to us if a few words, then a few more and then a language just go,” asks Iain Finlay Macleod’s richly textured play. Somersaults may end in a shrug of inevitability,... Read more... |
Sauce for the Goose, Orange Tree Theatre
Saturday, 22 December 2012
"Doors and sardines. Getting on, getting off. Getting the sardines on, getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's the theatre. That's life." So says one of Michael Frayn's characters in ... Read more... |
The Dance of Death, Trafalgar Studios
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
It sounds unlikely but The Dance of Death makes the perfect Christmas play. Half a minute with Strindberg's squabbling couple makes the ordinary family row over underdone/overdone turkey seem like a... Read more... |
Goodnight Mister Tom, Phoenix Theatre
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Love and loneliness, broken homes and broken hearts, child abuse and communities clinging on through war... This adaptation of Michelle Magorian's children's book treats the darkest and most... Read more... |
DVD: American Friends
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Michael Palin's adventures in period drama as star and co-writer, with director Tristram Powell, pass a pleasant if forgettable hour and a half. The main thread – repressed Englishman loosens up... Read more... |
The Trojan Women, Gate Theatre
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Not even a cameo by Tamsin Greig can redeem this painful adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women. For an hour and a half it screams with anguish, verging at times on the parodic. The... Read more... |
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