Johnny didn’t come marching home
Robert Tanitch reviews Johnny Got His Gun at Southwark Playhouse, London SE1 Dalton Trumbo took the title of his novel from the recruiting advert, Johnny Get Your Gun, a call to arms, dating from the ...
THEATRE REVIEWS
Is it fake or is it genuine?
Robert Tanitch reviews Bakersfield Mist at Duchess Theatre, London WC2 Stephen Sachs’s two-hand play premiered in Los Angeles in 2011 at the Fountain Theatre, where Sachs is the artistic director. Bak ...
Orchestrally and chorally thrilling but there is a but
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Thebans at London Coliseum Sophocles (496-406BC) wrote the Theban plays over a wide interval of time. They were not written as a trilogy and are quite separate. Julian And ...
A brainy play for brainy people who are prepared to listen
Robert Tanitch reviews Incognito at Bush Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, London W12 I enjoyed Nick Payne’s Constellations so much that I saw it twice. The play, wittily and cleverly, showed that at any giv ...