Chichester Festival Theatre
Bingo, Young Vic TheatreSaturday, 25 February 2012
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is the misleading, jokey title of a play about Shakespeare in his ignoble last years, unable to write further, isolated from his beloved London, and hemmed in by local politics. Shakespeare is invited to become a... Read more... |
Who is Eduardo de Filippo?Wednesday, 03 August 2011
The phenomenal Eduardo de Filippo has no parallel in British theatre. Cross Olivier with Ayckbourn and you get a national institution who acted in and directed his own plays in his own theatre. Born in 1900, it seems odd that he had to wait until... Read more... |
The Syndicate, Chichester Festival TheatreWednesday, 03 August 2011
Halfway through Sean Mathias’s gripping new production of The Syndicate, Ian McKellen’s Don Antonio Barracano reaches for his hat, stick and gloves and heads out through the olive groves to "make [a man] an offer". He looks and sounds like a nice... Read more... |
Rattigan's Nijinsky/ The Deep Blue Sea, Chichester Festival TheatreTuesday, 26 July 2011
Terence Rattigan’s art of concealment is what makes The Deep Blue Sea so rich and true an observation of the way people behave. Being deprived of his concealing mask is the crucial idea of the interesting new play partnering it at Chichester to mark... Read more... |
Top Girls, Minerva Theatre ChichesterThursday, 30 June 2011
The remarkable thing about Caryl Churchill, Max Stafford-Clark has said, is that she is "completely new, every time she comes out of the box". Watching the first act to his revival of her most celebrated work, which Stafford-Clark revisits for... Read more... |
Chichester Festival 2011Thursday, 17 February 2011
Chichester Festival has unveiled its 2011 season running from May to November, and priority booking opened yesterday. Terence Rattigan's centenary is celebrated in style, including two famous and fine plays, The Deep Blue Sea and The Browning... Read more... |
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Chichester Festival TheatreMonday, 26 July 2010
If you could boil down Robert Tressell’s brilliant socialist novel to a single observation, it would be that rich people do nothing, while the poor work their (ragged-trousered) arses off. So it’s a very clever conceit on the part of Howard... Read more... |
Pygmalion, Chichester Festival TheatreTuesday, 20 July 2010
Revivals of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion are generally too busy making an artistic case for the play over the My Fair Lady musical to worry about listening out for contemporary resonances. But in many ways Simon Cowell is the Henry Higgins of our... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Playwright Howard BrentonSaturday, 17 July 2010
Political playwright Howard Brenton (b. 1942) is always in the process of being "rediscovered". Yet at the same time he has been at the heart of British theatrical life for the past 40 years, since his debut in 1969 with Christie in Love. True, he... Read more... |
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