Vivat, Regina!
Robert Tanitch reviews The Audience at Apollo Theatre, London W1 The first actor to play Queen Elizabeth II on stage was Prunella Scales in Alan Bennett’s A Question of Attribution at the National The ...
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Are you voting on May 7?
Robert Tanitch reviews Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at National Theatre/Lyttelton The action takes place during the 1640s in England. King Charles 1 has been beheaded. The Civil War is over. It’s ...
Jean Christophe Maillot presumes everybody knows the story
Robert Tanitch reviews Romeo et Juliette at London Coliseum. Friar Laurence is much to blame for the tragedy that befalls Romeo and Juliet. So it is interesting, in Jean Christophe Maillot’s 1996 live ...
“You’ve got to have faith to survive.”
Robert Tanitch reviews Bomber’s Moon at Trafalgar Studio 2, London SW1 William Ivory’s mini-drama takes his inspiration from his father and is a tribute to the men of Bomber Command who died and survi ...