The Caretaker is coming to the Old Vic

When it premiered in 1960, The Caretaker changed the face of modern theatre. Now Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking classic comes to The Old Vic in a new production directed by Matthew Warchus. Disturbed handyman Aston has invited an irascible tramp to stay with him at his brother’s jumbled London flat. At first it seems that the manipulative…

The Caretaker is coming to the Old Vic

When it premiered in 1960, The Caretaker changed the face of modern theatre. Now Harold Pinter’s groundbreaking classic comes to The Old Vic in a new production directed by Matthew Warchus. Disturbed handyman Aston has invited an irascible tramp to stay with him at his brother’s jumbled London flat. At first it seems that the manipulative…

Dear Lupin: I’m very fond of you…

Roger Mortimer was born in 1909, went to Eton, joined the Coldstream Guards, was a prisoner of war and became a correspondent for The Sunday Times. His son Charlie was nicknamed by him as Lupin (probably after Mr Pooter’s useless son in The Diary Of a Nobody). Dear Lupin is a great dramatization by Michael…

The Elephant Man: Real charm is always planned

It’s hard to find words good enough to describe a such marvellous play; so please, be kind with us because this review will be a really hard job. The Elephant Man at the Royal Haymarket Theatre it’s, for sure, one of the most emotional play of the season. We are not here to link this…

BUYER & CELLAR: in the corner of my rounded mind

Amazon is getting  crazy; in a week, in the Uk shop there are just 3 copies left of the book My Passion for Design by former Broadway star Barbra (please is Barb-ra without the middle A) Streisand. And it’s all Michael Urie fault. Because Buyer and Cellar it’s so great and funny you can’t go…

Jamie Campbell Bower on stage with a new Beckham girl

Do you remember when in 2002, The Imitation Game star Keira Knightley put on a pair of football shoes to star alongside the Londoner heartthrob Jonathan Rhys Meyers as the kick ass girl who loved soccer in Bend it like Beckham? Well now the movie it’s being turned into a play but on stage, as the swoon worthy coach Joe, instead Mr. Tudor Jonathan…

BRADLEY COOPER ON STAGE IN LONDON IN 2015

Broadway has been abuzz with Bradley Cooper as John Merrick, a man so physically deformed who was called The Elephant Man. Written by Bernard Pomerance, the play enjoyed a great 14 weeks run in New York at Booth Theatre from November 2014. The great news is that discussing the play on the Jimmy Fallow Show, Mr Cooper, said: ” We’re going to do it til 22…

Ambition is a sin: Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies

Turning a novel into a play is always something difficult and complicated. It is even more so when you have to adapt a novel set during the intrigue of the Tudor court of Henry VIII through the political intelligence of Thomas Cromwell. But Mike Poulton as adaptor and Jeremy Herrin as director have done a…

Read not Dead: an exciting season finale

The project Read Not Dead was founded in 1995 with the intent to bring to light surviving plays produced between 1567 and 1642. A wonderful opportunity to spend the Sunday afternoon in  company of great plays and a stunning cast because, not everyone can get a script at 10 am in the morning and be…