Taming of the Shrew
There have been plenty of plays where women have taken the roles usually played by male actors. Legends Sarah Siddons (in the 18th century) and Sarah Bernhardt (in the 19th…
Through the Glass Darkly
Roger Allam is an actor worth seeing. When it was announced he would be playing the Edwardian patriarch at the centre of a glass manufacturing dynasty in this revival of…
I am Spartacus
On 20 May 2019 I released short statement on Twitter: I won’t support ‘a political organisation other than an official Labour group or other unit of the Party’ nor will…
Death of a Salesman
As America begins to lift itself out of the Great Depression, William Lowman, Willy, is sucked further into the quagmire of his own personal depression in this classic Arthur Miller…
We’re going to win the cup….
Watching Accrington Stanley against Derby, I need something to distract me from the fact that it should have been us – Southampton – apart from the tiny point that we…
All in the mind
I have been studying how I may compareThis prison where I live unto the world. King Richard II This prison is sharply defined on stage at the Almeda Theatre where…