3+ hour, 29+ min ago  (42+ words) Peter Schaffer's Black Comedy was originally seen at Chichester Festival Theatre in 1965 with Derek Jacobi, Albert Finney and Maggie Smith in a production by John Dexter. It became an instant classic, a farce, made memorable by a brilliant, inspired twist....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (272+ words) Onstage " the familiar reception area and entrance door of a certain hotel; to the right a staircase, and a dining area with neat, white tablecloths draped over round tables, with doors leading to an invisible kitchen. On the walls hang…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1041+ words) How might you feel if you sat down for the 1969 moon landing and then had 55 years of life flash before your eyes in just three hours (with a 20-minute breather in 2005?) Ecstatically nostalgic, uplifted, exhilarated, overwhelmed, amazed, bewildered, pummelled and…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1114+ words) Ever popular at Christmastime (and as a GCSE text) is the thoroughly uplifting, so, so familiar story of greedy, grasping, cold-hearted Scrooge and his sudden, spirited overnight transformation into the utmost of joyful, generous, caring souls. Adapted by Aisha Khan,…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (345+ words) Jean Genet (1910-1986), delinquent, thief, poet, novelist, playwright, political activist, spent much of his early life in reformatories and prison. He briefly joined the Foreign Legion only to be dishonourably discharged. His works were controversial for their explicit and often deliberately…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1112+ words) Karis Kelly's Consumed packs a punch, no doubt about it. Indeed, throughout its 70 gripping, gruelling minutes of mayhem four madly sparring women pummel the audience relentlessly with their super-charged intensity. It's manic and alarming; it's cruel, chaotic and comical; it's…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (365+ words) Mary Page Marlowe premiered in Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2016 and opened Off-Broadway in 2018. American playwright Tracy Letts is probably best known to theatregoers and filmgoers as the author of August Osage County. The production at The Old Vic is directed…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (721+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews I Swear (October 10), cert 15, 121 mins. Have you ever been in a large gathering where everyone is being respectfully silent and felt the urge to blurt out something? Maybe even something rude? What stops you from giving in…...

8+ mon, 2+ day ago  (736+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews The Courageous (September 5, 2025) cert 12 A, 85 mins. When we first meet Jule she is driving her children, Claire (10), Lo'c (8), who is unofficially diagnosed with Aspergers, and Sami (6) somewhere, but we do not know her destination. She stops at…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (399+ words) Joyce Glasser reviews The Naked Gun (August 1, 2025) Cert 15, 85 mins. But first Liam Neeson fills the entire Imax screen with gravitas in a plea for us to help save cinema and the at-risk comedy genre. It's gravitas the man cast as…...