REVIEW: The Taste Of The Town, Rose Theatre Kingston ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Nick Dear’s new play The Taste of the Town, the follow-up to The Art of Success, which are playing together as Hogarth’s Progress at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Mark Ludmon reviews Nick Dear’s new play The Taste of the Town, the follow-up to The Art of Success, which are playing together as Hogarth’s Progress at the Rose Theatre, Kingston
Mark Ludmon reviews the revival of Nick Dear’s play The Art of Success as part of the Hogarth’s Progress double bill at the Rose Theatre in Kingston
Casting has been announced for the Strangers On A Train UK Tour 2018 which starts in Brighton in January 2018. John Middleton (Emmerdale) plays Detective Arthur Gerard, Coronation Street’s Christopher Harper will play the charismatic and manipulative Charles Bruno, the psychopathic playboy who has a chance encounter with a troubled stranger Guy Haines played by Jack Ashton (Call the Midwife). Hannah Tointon (Mr Selfridge) plays Guy’s fiance Anne Faulkner. The acclaimed gripping thriller is based on the psychological drama by celebrated writer Patricia Highsmith and immortalised by Alfred Hitchcock in his Academy Award-winning film and is adapted by Craig Warner. Highsmith’s other works include The Talented Mr Ripley and Carol. Strangers On A Train is directed by Anthony Banks and produced by Ambassador Theatre Group and Smith and Brant Theatricals. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN UK TOUR
While Twilight Song lacks the power of My Night With Reg, it is an enjoyable piece of drama that sharply portrays people – both gay and straight – who feel trapped by their circumstances and seek an escape that risks making their misery even worse.