THE MILLIONAIRESS (YouTube). Bernard Shaw’s didactic farce, written in 1936 when he was 80 and seen on BBC television in 1972, is one of his poorest plays. Maggie Smith, highly mannered, very theatric ...
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“I am the Duchess of Malfi still,” says the stoic Duchess under torture. It’s a famous line in John Webster’s Jacobean tragedy. But at Trafalgar Theatre, the audience is no longer watching John Webste ...
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Oct 23, 2024
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As with Sondheim’s A Little Night Music in 2022 My Fair Lady combines the truly exciting musicianship of Opera North’s big, beautiful orchestra and chorus of magnificent actor-singers with ...
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Rory Mullarkey admits to being a committed socialist but his satire on the English upper classes is poor stuff and the claque’s artificially loud laughter on the press night became more and more irrit ...
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Nov 13, 2023
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