Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyFiddler on the Roof, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, LondonTradition? Not so sure — in a very modernist telling, which re-focuses the musical on the women. We also got the sense of what it meant to…Sep 30Sep 30
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyNeither One Thing Nor ‘T’other: The CriticNational Treasure Sir Ian McKellen is THE CRITIC — Jimmy Erskine, scathing erudite lambast of actresses and actors everywhere, and with a…Sep 28Sep 28
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyLeeIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. Everyone was naked and…Sep 23Sep 23
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyWaiting for Whishaw: Waiting For Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonMy first exposure to a Samuel Beckett play. Whilst I’d heard of the one where he buries a woman up to her neck in earth and creates a…Sep 22Sep 22
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyVisiting Agrabah: Disney’s Aladdin, UK TourWhen Aladdin swoops into town, you’ve got to go! And if you’re not swishing around in Agrabah’s stagey marketplace, are you even there? The…Sep 21Sep 21
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyWomen Talking, Women Silenced: The Last Word, Marylebone Theatre, LondonVisceral. Soulful. Profound. A play which takes the words of real women and literally gives voice to them (through Alisa Khazanova). For…Sep 20Sep 20
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbyThe 39 Steps, Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonFast and furious. It’s the Patrick Barlow version of John Buchan — and it’s all about the need for speed. Rapid-fire jokes, mime and gags…Sep 20Sep 20
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbySo I Married An Axe Murderer: FirebrandAn everyday tale of elite conflict, control, influence and domestic cruelty. Pushing the Henry VIII as tyrant manifest popular theory…Sep 16Sep 16
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbySwashing and Buckling: The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)Or Le Comte de Monte-Cristo if you will. Full throttle revenge with extra revenge on top, Dumas’s tale is a bit ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ as…Sep 7Sep 7
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan TailbySing SingA massive high security prison complex on the Hudson River. 2. Literal — as Rehabilitation Through The Arts (RTA) works in prisons to…Sep 1Sep 1
