Refine Search

The cold war

... their third cousins. The play turns into a neat geometrical equation, with the first half set in England and the second in America and Churchill shows us the 'love affair' each couple has with the other's country and its gradual and inevitable replacement ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

A night to remember Faith Hope and Charity

... whose life was so bizzarely cut short just prior to the Second World War, while fleeing the Nazis in Paris, on his way to America. It is a timeless tale of unemployment leading to despair and destitution and eventual suicide in the face of an inflexible ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Stripped to the bone

... soon abandons Julie when pregnant with Jason. Hence the need for Julie to earn some brass, since the footballer zamooshes to America and refuses to cough up. At the end of the show, Julie dis appears in a blaze of music to do her act. Fry is particularly ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Mrs Warren's Profession

... until 1902 for its first private performances by the Stage Society at the New Lyric Club. After its world premiere in America in 1905 it was prosecuted in the courts, and its first public performance in Britain was not until 1925, too late as Shaw ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: Rambert Dance Company

... Richard Alston's artistic policy for the Rambert Dance Company has emphasised the evolution of modernism and post-modernism in America, and its effects on our dance scene, so his newest programme at Sadler's Wells has returned the focus to Britain. But the ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 368 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: La Gran Scena

... comes from the arch introductions by Sylvia Bills (Bruce Hopkins), a retired diva who bears a strong resemblance to one of America's most loved opera stars, who began in vaudeville and has half returned to her roots. The other four members of the troupe ...

Published: Thursday 16 February 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 388 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: The Little Foxes

... Playhouse is a splendid one of Lillian Hellman's famous play The Little Foxes, a powerful study of a family in the deep South of America obsessed with the ruthless pursuit of wealth at any cost. It is set in a small town where a local family have closed a deal ...

Published: Thursday 02 March 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 398 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

Opera and Dance: Let fall your horrible pleasure

... survived, so the field has been left for Aribert Rcimann, whose Lear has been produced in various opera houses around America and Europe since its Munich premiere in 1978, and has finally reached London in Desmond Clayton's English translation of Claus ...

Published: Thursday 02 February 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 481 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: Suspicious minds

... and provides two cracking good acting parts under the direction of Kevin Billington. Jack Lemmon confirms that he is one of America's finest actors as a prepetual- ly cheerful, good-hearted man who is made ot disintegrate and crumble when brought face to ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 486 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

SHOWCASE: Richard Fillingham Agency

... very good account of himself and impressed, particularly when he used light and shade in his performance of Neil Diamond's America. So, from two extremely promising newcomers to the lady I would class as the finest girl singer in Britain today. She hasn't ...

Published: Thursday 26 October 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3681 | Page: 8 | Tags: theatre review