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Reviews by Alan Franks

West End and Off-West End reviews written by Alan Franks. Reviews are primarily for productions in London's West End and Off-West End venues.

Kunene and the King at the Ambassadors Theatre | Review

January 30, 2020 Last updated: January 30, 2020 11:42 am By Alan Franks

John Kani and Antony Sher as Lunga Kunene and Jack Morris. Photo by Ellie Kurttz RSC.

As theatrical Odd Couplings go, this one was always going to be at the dangerous edge. How could it be otherwise? Jon Kani’s bold two-hander is set in South Africa a quarter of a century on from the country’s first democratic elections after apartheid, and tackles head-on the personal implications of the supposed new equality. On the one hand, Jack Morris, a classical actor (white), stricken with liver cancer, self-medicating with alcohol and raging against the dying of his career; on the … [Read more...]

Jack And The Beanstalk at Theatre Peckham | Review

December 6, 2019 Last updated: December 7, 2019 6:25 pm By Alan Franks

Jack and the Beanstalk at Peckham Theatre by Suzi Corker

Folk tales only become old because they speak about timeless issues to successive generations of the young. If they were to lose their relevance, they would fade and die, simple as that. No wonder then that Jack and the Beanstalk is as durable as they come, with its supernatural backdrop of a giant in the sky and its social realism foreground of a boy struggling to redeem his family from the shackles of poverty. In this version by Paul Sirett, first produced at Stratford’s Theatre Royal seven … [Read more...]

INALA with the Soweto Gospel Choir and International Dancers | Review

October 24, 2019 Last updated: October 24, 2019 12:08 pm By Alan Franks

Nafisah Baba in Inala - Credit Johan Persson.

It is more than thirty years since the South African male choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo achieved global fame through the unorthodox route of collaboration with an American rock star. The result of that was the landmark album Graceland, made controversial by the fact that the star in question, Paul Simon, appeared to be breaking the cultural boycott imposed by the United Nations on South Africa because of that country’s apartheid policy. In the much altered political climate of the … [Read more...]

Prism starring Robert Lindsay and Tara Fitzgerald | Review

October 15, 2019 Last updated: October 15, 2019 11:55 am By Alan Franks

Victoria Blunt,Tara Fitzgerald, Oliver Hembrough, Robert Lindsay in Prism - c Manuel Harlan.

It is one thing to be a visually literate playwright; quite another to create a full-length drama which appropriates the techniques of the cinema as whole-heartedly as Terry Johnson has done in his latest play. Obeying the old principle of showing rather than telling, Johnson lays before us the life of the late and undoubtedly great cinematographer Jack Cardiff, probably best known for his work with such movie directors as Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. This he does … [Read more...]

The Entertainer at New Victoria Theatre, Woking | Review

September 25, 2019 Last updated: September 25, 2019 11:17 am By Alan Franks

The Entertainer

They may not have called it a state-of-England play back then, but when The Entertainer was premiered in London in 1957, there could have been no doubting the author’s intention. Here he was depicting a fading music-hall hero desperately hanging on to his old and once-reliable repertoire of jokes while the newer media of TV and cinema were stealing the audiences from under his nose. Since Archie Rice’s routine is so entrenched in the prewar tradition, it was easy to see his demise as … [Read more...]

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