Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
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Love going to the theatre, here you'll find interviews, reviews, thoughts and experiences from London's theatre scene including big West End plays right down to fringe and pub performances.
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
1w ago
Player Kings at the Noel Coward Theatre is Henry IV parts 1 & 2 squished together to create just under four hours of Shakespeare with one interval. Ian McKellen is the big star name, playing Falstaff with Richard Coyle as Henry IV and Toheeb Jimoh as Hal. Prince Hal's behaviour ..read more
Interview: Camila França and Trine Garrett, co-artistic directors of Foreign Affairs theatre company
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
2w ago
L-R Me (Rev Stan), Camila França and Trine Garrett Camila França and Trine Garrett are co-artistic directors of the Foreign Affairs theatre company, which produces translated work sometimes in unusual spaces. Ahead of their latest production, Black Swans at the Omnibus Theatre (23 April-11 May), I asked them about the ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
2w ago
Katie Arnstein in The Long Run. Photo: Ali Wright The Long Run is a comedy about cancer. Not words that normally go together and something writer and performer Katie Arnstein acknowledges right at the start of the play, but it turns out to be a very accurate description. Rather than ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
3w ago
Neil John Gibson and Gillian Dean in Don't Make Tea © photographer - Andy Catlin Don't Make Tea at the Soho Theatre is one of those plays that, if you wrote down all the elements, you'd think 'this isn't going to work' but somehow, on stage, it does. It's the ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
3w ago
Anushka Chakravarti, Rachael Stirling and Dominic Rowan in The Divine Mrs S at Hampstead Theatre. Photo: Johan Persson As The Divine Mrs S opens, we see brother and sister actors John Kemble (Dominic Rowan) and Sarah Siddens (Rachael Stirling) performing on stage at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. John gives ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
1M ago
Sam McArdle had given up acting and started writing a play for 'something to do'. He ended up performing that play, The Manny, at the King's Head Theatre last year and a successful run in Dublin followed. Ahead of The Manny's return to London at the Pleasance Theatre this week ..read more
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1M ago
For Black Boys... (ensemble). Photo: © Johan Persson For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy is a play of experiences told as a seamless stream of stories. But the play itself has its own story. This is the second West End run for Nouveau ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
1M ago
As the audience arrives at the Young Vic, four of the Nachtland cast are removing a vast array of household items from the stage. It's a process I find strangely fascinating: Is it random what they take, or carefully coordinated and the same every night, timed to perfection to coincide ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
1M ago
52 Monologues for Young Transsexuals at the Soho Theatre sets out its stall as you walk into the theatre and are asked to spit in a cup. It's a request that certainly sets you thinking. Once inside, writer/performer Laurie Ward dances to a bouncy track in a pink sequined, halter-neck ..read more
Rev Stan's Theatre Blog
1M ago
Robert Softley Gale, artistic director of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company Birds of Paradise, Scotland's pre-eminent disabled-led theatre company, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a tour of its darkly comic play Don't Make Tea. Before the company hits the road later this month I spoke to artistic director Robert ..read more