Orange Tree Theatre announce cast for Arms and the Man
The Orange Tree Theatre Richmond has announced full casting and creatives for George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw
REVIEW: Heartbreak House, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Shaw doesn’t exactly give us hope, but he paints a picture we can recognise as speaking to us today. It’s a bit of a wait to get there, but more than worth persevering with.
REVIEW: Misalliance, Orange Tree Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the sparkling new production of Shaw’s lesser-known play Misalliance at the Orange Tree Theatre
REVIEW: Pygmalion, West Yorkshire Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
At the end of the day, however, any production of Pygmalion stands or falls by its Eliza and Higgins: here the pairing of Natalie Gavin and Alex Beckett were terrific.
REVIEW: Man And Superman, Lyttelton Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Front and centre, shouldering a Herculean workload of complicated, dense dialogue, is Ralph Fiennes in absolutely cracking form. He has unflagging energy and although he rattles the text at a remarkable speed, he gives full value to each word and makes clear, uncomplicated sense of every passage. He is phenomenal, like a bolt of electricity confined to the stage. Simon Godwin’s stunning production makes Shaw’s play, a philosophical tennis match of volleyed ideas and ideals, burst with wit, innovation and utter delight.
TALES FROM THE DRESSING ROOM : Penelope Keith
In the first of our Tales From The Dressing Room series, Penelope Keith chats candidly to JBR about the changes in the industry since her training. “Come in, come in. Welcome to the most elegant dressing room in the West End.” How could it not be? This is, after all, the famed Dressing Room No. 10 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Current resident, the ever fragrant Penelope Keith, is precisely as one imagines her to be; part hectoring schoolmarm, part favourite aunt. “I like the idea of older actors passing on what they know, but don’t make me sound too much like an old fart,” she pleads, as she crosses the room and takes her seat. The room is not the most extravagantly appointed one in the West End. A large, French style dressing table occupies the right hand side where Keith’s wig sits, proudly, on a stand. Modest amounts … Read more
