REVIEW: Pressure, Ambassadors Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews Pressure starring and written by David Haig now playing at the Ambassadors Theatre.
Laura Rogers
Tennessee Williams’ Lovely Sunday For Creve Coeur Casting
The rarely performed Tennessee Williams’ play A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer is to open the Autumn Season at The Print Room at The Coronet. One of the greatest American playwrights of the last century and best known for plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, and The Glass Menagerie, this play is one of Williams’ rarer plays. It’s Sunday morning in early June, 1930s St Louis. In a sweltering apartment, as Dorothea completes her rigorous daily exercise regime, Bodey is in the kitchen, frying chicken for a picnic at Creve Coeur Lake. Upstairs neighbour Mrs Gluck has depression so bad she can’t even make coffee, and now Dorothea’s spinster colleague Helena arrives with the news that she’s found a lovely new apartment for them to share. But Dorothea’s mind is elsewhere, she is hoping for a call from the man of her dreams… Casting … Read more
REVIEW: Private Lives, Churchill Theatre Bromley (On Tour) ✭✭✭
However, while the pace of the comedy occasionally dips in the second half, this production of Coward’s play is a gem, proving the enduring relevance of Private Lives and its ability to delight contemporary audiences.
Private Lives 2016 UK Tour Tickets
A major revival of Noel Coward’s best loved and multi-award-winning quintessentially English comedy. This glittering production of one of the greatest plays of all time, includes Olivier Award nominated TV and stage star Tom Chambers (winner of Strictly Come Dancing and star of Top Hat the musical) as the loveable and charming Elyot and Laura Rogers (The Sins, Bad Girls) as the unconventional and vivacious Amanda. Also starring Charlotte Ritchie (Call the Midwife, Fresh Meat and Siblings) and Richard Teverson (Downton Abbey). An elegant evening of snappy wit, glamour and perceptive observation that promises to be a deliciously delectable and unforgettable classic. A masterpiece of 1930’s high comedy, Private Lives is the sophisticated evening of acutely sharp, divinely decedent, and unashamed humour. PRIVATE LIVES 2016 UK TOUR – PAST DATES Friday 16 – Saturday 16 January 2016 New Victoria Theatre, Woking Monday 18 – Saturday 23 January 2016 Churchill Theatre, … Read more
