REVIEW: Pinter Six, Harold Pinter Theatre London ✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews Pinter Six now playing at The Harold Pinter Theatre as part of the Pinter at the Pinter Season.
Ron Cook
REVIEW: Girl From The North Country, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Not for nothing does the audience rise to its feet at the end of the performance. Because, it knows, it has not met any strangers during the performance. It has met itself.
REVIEW: The Children, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭
The Children is a thought-provoking play that entertains while presenting us with a dilemma about the responsibilities we all have to face.
Jamie Lloyd Directs 50th Anniversary Production of The Homecoming
The Jamie Lloyd Company returns to the West End with a new production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary year. The Homecoming will feature an all-star cast including John Simm (Lenny), Keith Allen (Sam), Gemma Chan (Ruth), Ron Cook (Max), Gary Kemp (Teddy), and John Macmillan (Joey). When Teddy returns from America to introduce his wife Ruth to his family in London, they discover a claustrophobic and brutal household where his father Max, brothers Lenny and Joey and Uncle Sam live in a state of mutual loathing and festering resentment. Theirs is a motherless, compassionless and lawless home where Ruth immediately becomes the centre of attention. Pinter’s sinister masterpiece simmers with suspense and rings with savage humour as Ruth navigates her way between the roles of predator and prey in an incisive battle of wills. The Homecoming is widely regarded as Pinter’s finest play, a … Read more
REVIEW: The Ruling Class, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭
James McAvoy is a true, blistering, white-hot star who lights up every moment he is on stage, whose smile and darting, impressive eyes can say whatever he wants them to say; utterly mercurial, hilarious and wild one moment, malevolent and disturbed in the next, then sad or insane or calculating or sexy – or all of those at once.
