REVIEW: Absolute Hell, National Theatre ✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Rodney Ackland’s play Absolute Hell now playing at the National Theatre. Book Now!
Kate Fleetwood
REVIEW: Ugly Lies The Bone, National Theatre ✭✭✭
Overall, despite a good cast and production values, the play doesn’t reach the heights it could have.
BUG releases 1000 more seats
BUG starring James Norton and Kate Fleetwood has proved to be a very popular play indeed, with the entire season Sold Out prior to the show’s press night. Producers have announced today that an additional 1000 seats are now on sale extending the show’s London season to 14 May 2016. A seedy motel room. Oklahoma City. Summer. Agnes, a lonely cocktail waitress, is holed-up from her violent ex-con ex-husband, seeking solace in drink and drugs. Until a stranger arrives. Tense and blackly comic, Bug is a taut exploration of two people on the edge; where the lines between reality and delusions become blurred. Found111 is a pop-up venue, provided by Soho Estates, at 111 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H ODT. Read our review of BUG BOOK NOW FOR BUG
REVIEW: Bug, Found 111 Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Simon Evans’ production of Bug is a visceral and immersive piece, which lives up to Tracey Letts’ excellent script. Kate Fleetwood and James Norton deliver deeply moving performances, complimented by a strong supporting cast and sublime set, lighting and sound design. It is a brilliantly judged production, which will set your pulse racing, and linger long in the memory.
FIRST LOOK: Rehearsals Images from Bug starring James Norton
BritishTheatre.com are pleased to bring you these rehearsal images for Tracy Lett’s (August Osage County, Killer Joe) 20th anniversary production of Bug. Tense and blackly comic, Bug is a taut exploration of two people on the edge; where the lines between reality and delusions become blurred. The cast of Bug includes James Norton (War and Peace, Grantchester, Happy Valley) and Kate Fleetwood (London Road, Medea); Alec Newman (The Motherf**ker With the Hat & Danton’s Death, NT; King Lear, Donmar), Daisy Lewis (teacher Sarah Buntin in Downton Abbey) and Robert Goodale (Perfect Nonsense, Duke of York’s, Dr Faustus, Shakespeare’s Globe). Director Simon Evans returns to Found111, the thrilling new pop-up theatre space at the site of the original Central Saint Martins School of Art on Charing Cross Road, following the critically acclaimed The Dazzle. Bug will play a six week season from Thursday March 24 – Saturday May 7, 2016. Book … Read more
REVIEW: High Society, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭
The first fifteen minutes or so of Act Two are as good as, if not the equal of, any fifteen minutes of any musical currently playing on the West End (the final fifteen minutes of both of Gypsy’s acts excluded). In the main, this is down to three things: superb orchestrations (Chris Walker), fantastic musicianship (Theo Jamieson, Joe Stilgoe and a red hot band) and inspired, creative choreography (Nathan M Wright). Together, these three magical elements work musical theatre alchemy, and the cast go along with it infectiously, without restraint.
