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By Stuart King Tuesday, December 17 2024, 21:19
English poet A. E. Housman received the inimitable Stoppard treatment, in Sir Tom’s 1997 work THE INVENTION OF LOVE, which is widely considered one of his most profoundly esoteric. Under Richard Eyre’s direction, the original play won awards, transferred from the National to the West End and then went on to Broadway. Here, for Hampstead Theatre’s new iteration, director Blanche McIntyre takes the reins.
Dickie Beau as Oscar Wilder and Simon Russell Beale as A E Housman. Credit Helen Murray
By Shehrazade Zafar-Arif Monday, December 16 2024, 09:57
Gustave Flaubert’s 19th century novel, Madame Bovary, follows the titular Emma Bovary, who desperately seeks romance and adventure while stuck in a humdrum provincial life and dull marriage with the faithful but boring Charles.
The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary at Southwark Playhouse. Photo Tanya Pabaru.
By Stuart King Sunday, December 15 2024, 12:04
The Young Vic’s somewhat surprising Christmas offering is Lillian Hellman’s 1939 Southern States family drama THE LITTLE FOXES (a title suggested to her by Dorothy Parker purportedly taken from the biblical Song of Solomon). The play first appeared on Broadway with Tallulah Bankhead and later as a film starring Bette Davis.
The cast of The Little Foxes at the Young Vic. Photography by Johan Persson.
By Stuart King Friday, December 13 2024, 08:30
Tchaikovsky’s perennial Christmas favourite THE NUTCRACKER once again graces London’s West End as it has in one form or another, most years since the end of the Second World War.
English National Ballet in Nutcracker by Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith (C) Johan Persson
By Stuart King Thursday, December 12 2024, 09:15
Six years since it was last revived and a full thirty since Matthew Bourne’s mostly-male masterpiece jetéd into the public consciousness, New Adventures’ SWAN LAKE is back with a cadre of fresh, young, powerful and energised dance talents who have been honed into a dynamic and sensuous troupe by the man himself.
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Nicole Kabera (The Queen) and Company. Photo Johan Persson.
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