REVIEW: Abigail’s Party, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Mike Leigh’s iconic play Abigail’s Party now playing at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch prior to a tour.
Melanie Gutteridge
REVIEW: Roaring Trade, Park Theatre ✭✭✭
So for all the efforts of the actors to make their characters more rounded and sympathetic this play tells us more about the anger in the air after the events of 2008 than it gives pointers to how we should think of the world of Canary Wharf in the future.
Casting Announced for Roaring Trade at Park Theatre
Casting has been announced for Roaring Trade by Steve Thompson (Dr Who, Sherlock, Upstairs Downstairs), directed by Alan Cohen, at Park Theatre from Wednesday 23 September – Saturday 24 October, with a press night on Wednesday 30 September. Canary Wharf. As the curtain comes down on the recession, four wildly different bond traders put their limits to the test. The coarse tactics of top dog Donny are challenged when young, bright Cambridge graduate Spoon arrives and fights to stake his claim in the bank. Savvy young Jess is wrapping clients around her little finger, but seasoned trader PJ lags behind as he struggles to paper over the cracks of a family life in suburbia. In glass buildings that never sleep, what will it take to shatter the glass ceiling? Nick Moran will star as ‘Donny’, alongside Michael McKell as ‘PJ’, Lesley Harcourt as ‘Jess’, Timothy George as ‘Spoon’, Melanie Gutteridge … Read more
