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Rosenbaum’s Rescue at Park Theatre | Review

January 16, 2019 Last updated: October 7, 2019 8:13 pm By John Groves

Neil McCaul & David Bamber (L-R) in Rosenbaum's Rescue at Park Theatre. Photo by Mark Douet

Rosenbaum’s Rescue is a remarkable first play by A. Bodin Saphir, author in residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital, about the escape from Denmark to Sweden of over 7,000 Jews in 1943. A. Bodin Saphir has the rare gift of being able to write believable, amusing dialogue and of gradually being able to unfold the different character traits of each of his four protagonists: the first scene of Act One in particular, speeds along, with many genuinely funny exchanges, before the playwright … [Read more...]

Burke and Hare at Jermyn Street Theatre | Review

December 3, 2018 Last updated: December 3, 2018 12:49 pm By John Groves

Burke and Hare. The Watermill Theatre. Hayden Wood and Alex Parry. Photo by Philip Tull.

The theatrical story of Burke and Hare, who provided Dr Knox with a plentiful supply of dead bodies for dissection in early nineteenth century Edinburgh, is the perhaps surprising, but inspired, choice of pre-Christmas fare at Jermyn Street Theatre this December. The undoubted success of this production is due in no small part to the imaginative script by Tom Wentworth, which is in turn truly hilarious and serious. He has the gift of speeding us through the plot at breakneck speed, except for … [Read more...]

Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn – Leatherhead Rep

November 21, 2018 Last updated: November 21, 2018 2:20 pm By John Groves

Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn - Credit Mark Turner @MarkMakesPhotos

Season's Greetings, written by Alan Ayckbourn in 1980, is a black though often farcical comedy, especially in this production, about four days in the life of a dysfunctional family, starting on Christmas Eve and set in a typical suburban house. It has been imaginatively chosen as the third and final production in this autumn’s highly successful ‘weekly rep’ season at Leatherhead Theatre. One of the reasons for the undoubted success of this particular play is the witty yet often poignant … [Read more...]

Waiting for God at Leatherhead Theatre | Review

November 7, 2018 Last updated: April 22, 2022 8:22 pm By John Groves

Waiting for God: Edmund Dehn and Claire Dyson.

WAITING FOR GOD was a BBC Sitcom that ran from 1990 to 1994 about two spirited residents of a retirement home, Tom and Diana, who spend their time running rings around the home’s oppressive management. Its writer, Michael Aitkens, who was present at the performance I am reviewing, has adapted it as a highly amusing stage play, which, however, shows its TV origins in the number of brief scenes dovetailed together. The play was presented as the first in Leatherhead Theatre’s Autumn weekly … [Read more...]

London Musical Theatre Orchestra: Girlfriends at Bishopsgate Institute

November 3, 2018 Last updated: May 8, 2019 3:03 pm By John Groves

London Musical Theatre Orchestra: Girlfriends at Bishopsgate Institute

After the success of The Hired Man (being revived at Hornchurch in the Spring of 2019), Howard Goodall turned his attention from ‘lusty, earthy’ choruses dominated by men, to a show in which women are prominent, attempting to tell the story of those who volunteered to join the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1941. It was successfully staged, with Maria Friedman, at Oldham Coliseum in 1986, but when it transferred to London’s Playhouse Theatre, Goodall had been persuaded to rewrite much of it, and … [Read more...]

Pack of Lies at The Menier Chocolate Factory | Review

October 2, 2018 Last updated: October 2, 2018 6:42 pm By John Groves

Jasper Britton (Stewart), Chris Larkin (Bob Jackson), Macy Nyman (Julie Jackson), Finty Williams (Barbara Jackson) - by Nobby Clark

It was an inspired idea of the Menier to revive Hugh Whitemore’s gripping play Pack of Lies this year: not only celebrating the life and work of the playwright, who died in July, but also taking heed of the public interest in Russian spies, following the Salisbury poisonings. This 1983 play, which originally starred Judi Dench and Michael Williams as Bob and Barbara Jackson, persuaded by M15 to allow their house to be used for surveillance on their closest friends, is based on the true story … [Read more...]

The Goon Show at The Churchill Theatre, Bromley | Review

September 10, 2018 Last updated: July 11, 2019 8:20 pm By John Groves

Cast watched by Norma

There were nearly 250 episodes of The Goon Show aired on the BBC Home Service between 1951 and 1961, many of which were written by Spike Milligan, who was born 100 years ago, so it must have seemed a good idea to resurrect three of them, including the Famous Batter Pudding Mystery, and perform them live onstage to celebrate Spike’s centenary. The idea behind this was the brainchild of Julian Howard McDowell, principal of the Pauline Quirke Academy in Brighton, who not only directs the stage … [Read more...]

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