Tag: Geoffrey Streatfeild
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Dominic Dromgoole adapts a play for his impressive feature film debut
Joyce Glasser reviews Making Noise Quietly (July 19, 2019), Cert. 15, 95 min. Normally you want to avoid triptychs in films. The audience has to get into not one, but […]
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The wittiest comedy of the Restoration era is William Congreve’s The Way of the World
Robert Tanitch reviews The Way of the World at Donmar Warehouse, London WC2 William Congreve’s The Way of the World, which premiered in 1700, is the last and generally considered […]
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Spies betray people. That’s what spies do
Robert Tanitch reviews Cell Mates at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 The casting of Rick Mayall and Stephen Fry in Simon Gray’s Cell Mates in 1995 must have seemed a box-office […]
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“In life,” Anton Chekhov said, “everything is mixed up: the profound with the trite, the tragic with the comic.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Wild Honey at Hampstead Theatre, London NW3 The late Howard Davies, a great director, was to have directed Wild Honey, Michael Frayn’s adapation of Platonov; but sadly […]