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Fake Shakes(peare)
written for The Spectator, 1 February 2011 Plaster the name ‘William Shakespeare’ on your theatre posters, and you’re sure to get bums on seats – even if Shakespeare didn’t quite write the play in question. That’s the rationale behind the slew of productions of the mysterious Cardenio, or Double...
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Design For Living, Old Vic
reviewed for The Spectator, 22 September 2010 The trouble with the Old Vic’s revival of Noel Coward’s play about Bright Young Things is that while the three principals are certainly Young, and may be rather ambiguous Things, there is very little that’s Bright about them whatsoever. Gilda, a wealthy...
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Bedlam, Globe Theatre
reviewed for The Spectator, 12 September, 2010 The Southbank has always been an anarchic place. Shakespeare’s Globe proudly reminds visitors that Elizabethan theatres were considered far too lawless – and, implicitly, too much fun – to be licensed within the city limits. After years of rubbing...
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How To Be An Other Woman, Gate Theatre
reviewed for The Spectator, 6 September 2010 There’s a moment in the Gate Theatre’s new devised play, How To Be An Other Woman, when an actress slowly mimes reaching for a book and ostentatiously flipping it open on a crowded bus. She tells her companion that she’s reading Madame Bovary. The...
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