8 days ago by Chuck

Thursday, March 1 at 6:30. Showing as part of National Theatre Live Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse (played by Lenny ...

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11 days ago by outonbluesix

Following on from the unexpectedly runaway popularity of the previous instalment in our audio collage series The TATP Years, which took an ephemerally pop-cultural look at 1992, here’s a new one casting a similar eye over 1984 – a year when you might have seen Morrissey hiding from a nuclear blast i ...

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22 days ago by buddyhell

Thirty years ago this month, OTT, a sort of adult-oriented version of the popular anarchic kids show Tiswas, hit our screens. In those days we only had three television channels to choose from and the fourth was on its way. … Continue reading →

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23 days ago by sueyuk

This production of The Comedy of Errors has a contemporary setting, where Ephesus could be any modern metropolis. The opening scene, where Egeon tells his story of his sons and lost family, is brilliantly portrayed using the imaginative set to its full potential. Anyone unfamiliar with the backstory ...

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28 days ago by Julie Raby

The Olivier stage is a large space and this production uses the space extremely well. The large towering buildings move around to represent different parts of the city, and even become the shipwreck where the twins were separated. There is a sense of the commercial business taking place in the city ...

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32 days ago by zambydmcd

What’s Wrong With The World is a new AF feature that highlights some of the reasons why we find ourselves in the mess we’re in. Of course I’m not saying these are solely to blame. But surely they contribute. So time for a good ol’ fashioned AF Rant about two very annoying things: News Coverage [...]

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38 days ago by garethjames

I haven’t seen an entire street on the Olivier stage sine John Gunter built part of the city of Bath for The Rivals in 1984. Bunny Christie’s street has an extra third storey on the houses and is a bit (intentionally) shabbier, but is spectacular nonetheless. It transforms to create an apartment blo ...

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38 days ago by boxofmisc

On Sunday Kate and her theatre going friend Andrea conspired together and took me, and Tilly and Tallulah (her first Shakespeare), and Andrea’s Mum to the National in London to see ‘A Comedy of Errors’. I loved it, every farcical, bawdy minute of it, I even loved Lenny Henry (a comedian that I can’t ...

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40 days ago by Julie Raby

In 2011, the sublime was a popular topic of discussion. At the National Theatre there was Frankenstein and in the John Martin exhibition at the Tate, the sublime was on show in a spectacular way. The John Martin exhibition was my favourite exhibition of the year. The epic was presented on grand canv ...

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40 days ago by Julie Raby

Here is my best of.. lists. The following post discusses what I thought about the year. Shakespeare in the Theatre 1. Romeo and Juliet (RSC at the RST) 2. Much Ado About Nothing (Globe) 3. Hamlet (The National Theatre) 4. Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndhams) 5.The Comedy of Errors (Propeller at Sheffie ...

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