Category Archives: Theatre
What we like right now…telegrams, trilogy and take 6
We loved Anna Meredith Five Telegrams premiere at First Night of the Proms with light show, courtesy of 59 Productions.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06cntc7
We were hugely impressed by the performances in The Lehman Trilogy at The National Theatre.
We were delighted to listen to Take 6, Jacob Collier’s guests at his Prom.
What we like right now…Greece, Glyndebourne, Greenwich.
British Museum exhibition celebrates the friendship of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Niko Ghika and Joh Craxton Charmed Lives in Greece.
Der Rosenkavalier at Glyndebourne. Critics mixed but we were enthralled.
To National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to hear the sublime Emeli Sande. News of Columbia World Cup Penalties came through at same time.
What we like right now…Larmer Tree, Laura Linney, local legacy
Larmer Tree gardens, Wiltshire, at their most beautiful in June. Definitely worth a visit.
Laura Linney luminous in My Name is Lucy Barton at The Bridge in Rona Munro’s superb adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel.
Local history tour revealed the extent of Richard Cloudesley’s legacy some 500 years after his death. Shows what can be done – both good and bad – with “two stony fields”. Cloudesley Annual Review
What We Like Right Now…Flaming June, Forensics and Feste’s Friends
@PalimpsestTweet production The Muse starring the incomparable Andy Wincott. He plays Frederick Leighton who painted “Flaming June”, currently on loan from Puerto Rico. 
Edge-of-the-seat first episode of latest series of “Line of Duty” with working mother Thandie Newton. 
Delightful, laugh-a-minute androgynous Twelfth Night at The National with Tamsin Greig starring as Mrs.Danvers-like Malvolia and Doon McKichan’s tuneful Feste.
What we like right now…Hamlet Hopper and (H)Architects
Loved Andrew Scott’s edgy Scandi-influenced Hamlet at The Almeida. Peter Wight a wonderful Polonius. Great design Hildegard Bechtler. Gertrude/Hamlet scene a triumph.
Two breath-taking Edward Hoppers at The Royal Academy. Also Grant Wood a new discovery for us.
Maternity leave will never be the same again thanks to Morven Christie and Vicky McClure slogging it out in a Glaswegian architect’s – The Replacement. Can’t wait for final episode.
What we like right now…Hampstead, Holbein and Hospitality
Intriguing, memorable two-hander at Hampstead Theatre downstairs by the multi-talented Richard Bean.
Hans Holbein portraits of two Thomases – More and Cromwell partnered at The Frick Collection.
Thanksgiving Hospitality in Boston.
