The Moderate Soprano
After the all-but unqualified triumph of Ian Kelly’s Mr Foote’s Other Leg, hopes were high…
Author Alex Larman
Hangmen
The playwright Martin McDonagh achieved enormous success at the turn of the millennium with a…
Mr Foote’s Other Leg
In 2012, the actor and biographer Ian Kelly published a brilliant account of the life…
Manchester – The Rebirth
It was 2009 when the Cap’n and I last visited Manchester. He, a man with…
Our Country’s Good
It’s always a difficult decision for an artistic director as to how long he or…
Hungry Like the Wolf: Lobos
I’ve often had cause to lament restaurants being in obscure out-of-the-way locations; I still shudder…
Talking Heads
I’ll come straight to the point; this new touring production of a trio of Alan…
For Services Rendered
While the acknowledged master of the ‘well-made play’ Terence Rattigan has been having a deserved…
Three Days in the Country
It is a truth semi-universally acknowledged that Russian drama is tricky to stage for an…
Church Street Townhouse, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Whenever I arrive at Stratford-upon-Avon (invariably by train, as neither Mrs Larman nor I have…
The Rape of Lucretia
The fuss that greeted the Royal Opera House’s current production of William Tell has proved…