Walking The Chiltern Way
Every now and again the weather gods smile down on my walking companion and poet, Peter Gibbs, and I as we follow our year-round progress of walks across Britain every twelve weeks and have been doing ...
Tag Archives: Oliver Cromwell
Robert Tanitch reviews April de Angelis’s Playhouse Creatures at Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, Surrey
Oliver Cromwell and his highly Puritan government closed theatres in 1642 and they remained closed for 18 years. Yes, 18 years. Had I been alive then, how would I have survived? April de Angelis’s Pla ...
Robert Tanitch reviews Mike Bartlett’s Scandaltown at Lyric, Hammersmith, London
Mike Bartlett has three plays running at the same time in London: Cock at Ambassadors Theatre, The 47th at The Old Vic and Scandaltown at Lyric, Hammersmith. It is a remarkable achievement and a recor ...
WALKING SHAKESPEARE’S AVON WAY
The quiet Northamptonshire village of Naesby, with its traditional cluster of old red brick houses has a claim to fame other than being the site of the famous English Civil War battle between Charles ...