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Play Reviews: Across The Ferry

... ves sel of old ferryman Sid Wagstaffe's dreams, in which he sails away in search of tangy adventure like a latter-day Joseph Conrad. He resents the way in which seafaring is now a tourist industry, but his pragmatic elder brother Robbo has become a landlubber ...

Published: Thursday 27 June 1991
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 17 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: THE PHOENIX

... tho head. He loathes his job as a shop walker, or something of that sort, ho has a soul above fumed oak, and Kipling and Joseph Conrad have always been his favourite authors. So the Cockney worm turns. One fateful evening, after a couple of whiskies, one ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1936
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2897 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... Manon L caut. which was received with thueuMm by a crowded audience, announced for repetition to-mccr 1 K Jl\ t° work by Joseph Conrad. Basil an Macdonald Hasting# has grappied zealously with his task, however, Lj in the turning of Victory into tv a play ...

Published: Thursday 03 April 1919
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 8128 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: GATE

... TORDOFl- and Philip Cade- have managed to get something of the very essence as well as dramatic impulse into their version of Joseph Conrad's great novel, Heart ol Darkness, a one-man production al the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, with Tordoff himself as ...

Published: Thursday 10 November 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 167 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

The Secret Agent

... The Secret Agent INCUBLIS JONATHAN PETHERBRIDGE has managed the extremely difficult task of making Joseph Conrad's complex novel The Secret Agent into a viable and exciting theatre work, mainly by straightening out the often confusing time scale and ...

Published: Thursday 14 March 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 263 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

OPERA REVIEW: Or the Hapless Landing

... verbal Odyssey centred upon Heiner Muller's version of Heracles' search for the Hydra, whose hardships are paralleled in Joseph Conrad's Congo Journal, palliated by a text extolling the pleasures of natural beauty. Its setting was a circle of sand, at whose ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 274 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

THE ARTS

... work is undoubtedly clever. So far as bad taste is concerned surely it could go no further than the coupling of the late Joseph Conrad's name with a decadent and unsuccessful writer. Surely the mention of even a fictitious celebrity would have served the ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1212 | Page: 16 | Tags: theatre review 

FACULTY THEATRE

... Proceedings at this new Faculty Theatre, as it is styled, havo started with performances of a double bill, made up of Joseph Conrad's One Day More and August St rind berg's very unpleas ant and ultra-cynical play, Lady (otherwise Miss) Julie, given in ...

Published: Thursday 27 November 1930
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 638 | Page: 22 | Tags: theatre review 

London Theatres

... has designed tho purposely simple-- some have \allecl it Kxpre.-.sioii>st scenery. But the drama proper, as set forth in Joseph Conrad's three acts, of eight scenes, labolloc! The Private Life. Ilio Under World and the Upper World, and The Issue, deals really ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1922
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3819 | Page: 18 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES

... and searching r61o oltn has risen greatly above lh.it previous iitromg .perform ance of hers in the dr.iusjtiaation of Joseph Conrad's Victory. Her raiding of t: 10 part, while dillering in points of detail from those preserved by her forerunners in ...

Published: Thursday 04 November 1920
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 7231 | Page: 19 | Tags: theatre review