Lend them your ears
It is a brave, adventurous and ultimately rewarding decision by director Phyllida Lloyd to stage Julius Caesar with an all-female cast. While some purists may balk at the...
Sublime old friends
‘Musical comedies aren’t written, they are rewritten,’ Stephen Sondheim has said. It certainly applies to his wonderful Merrily We Roll Along, a flop on Broadway, which...
Perfect timing
Time, as physicists are fond of saying, is merely a construct; although some plays can make it feel like an absolute eternity. Nick Payne’s brilliant new drama, swiftly...
Into the forest
Jasmin Vardimon’s latest dance creation Freedom explores the concept of freedom, ties and restrictions and fi nds that ‘whenever we think of freedom, it is defined by what...
Undercooked, but no...
A few weeks before the National Theatre’s Christmas show, a new adaptation of The Count Of Monte Cristo by Richard Bean, it was announced that the piece wasn’t quite cooked...
People pleaser
A new Alan Bennett play is always a cause for celebration. This, his latest, is a provocative delight. He says he was prompted to write it out of ‘a sense of unease when...
The perfect salad mix
I grew up Charlestoning to ‘Look at me, oh, look at me, oh, look at me, I’m dancing’ around the kitchen table. Since then, I’ve been to hundreds of musicals and Oh Look At...
What a performance
In the 1960s, David Hockney gave up on our grey skies and headed for California. The result gave us his Splash series of paintings, and in particular, A Bigger Splash – the...
A favourite uncle
Chekhov has become unusually popular, perhaps an indication that audiences share something of fin-de-siècle Tsarist Russia’s sense of exhaustion and potential calamity, as...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"What makes leisure and holidays delightful is just the fact that they come rarely. If you can have them whenever you like they lose their nature.”
The Lady. The Joy of Work. 14th May 1914
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