Twelfth Night is always a popular play and there are several productions this year. There has been the Donmar Warehouse production, which I wrote about in this blog and there is to be a RSC production in the autumn with Richard Wilson as Malvolio. The York Theatre Royal production is entertaining and thought provoking and…
Read more Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal 29th April 2009 and 1st May 2009)
Many of my recent posts have commented on how much the performances have referenced theatre. I couldn’t discuss this production of Waiting for Godot without commenting on the metatheatre. The set is a derelict theatre. We watch the action through two frames, one is the proscenium arch of the Theatre Royal and the other is…
Read more Waiting For Godot (Theatre Royal Newcastle, 23rd April 2009)
Future Me really unnerved me. I was really unnerved because I really liked the main character when I left, but deplored what he had done and his crime. I felt I had had some insights into the other characters and what their motivations were. The problem with this for me was that the main character…
I remember seeing Boeing Boeing when I was a teenager and finding it really funny. I seemed to remember its fast pace and the how timing was really important to the comedy. When I saw it again at York Theatre Royal, I realised how out of date the comedy was. I suddenly felt uncomfortable at…
Read more Boeing Boeing (York Theatre Royal, 24th February 2009)
This is a young cast, so we don’t see the difference in ages between characters in physical appearance, but in a production which draws attention to itself as theatre. This production has echoes of the company’s earlier production, A Clockwork Orange with its audience interaction and a leftover bowler hat from A Clockwork Orange appears…
Julie Raby: A Dyslexic Writer 