Marion Haque as Louie and Simon Robson as Sharp (Photo: Robert Day)
REVIEW: FOLK, Hampstead Theatre (2022)
The Origins of Folk Music "When I was a girl I used to walk up the lanes and listen to the birds and I'd make tunes from their cries. And…
Tamsin Greig as Peggy Ramsay and Jos Vantyler as Philip (Photo: Helen Maybanks)
REVIEW: Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre (2021)
She liked difference and edginess: hence her taking on Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond and Joe Orton. She famously fell out with Prick Up Your Ears playwright John Lahr about Orton. In the opening scene she has been up all night to go to a police station, where she obtained bail for one of her authors.
Dan Starkey as Sir Percy Shorter and Kirsty Besterman as Constance Wicksteed (Photo: Manuel Harlan)
REVIEW: Habeas Corpus, Menier Chocolate Factory (2021)
Set in the genteel town, next to Brighton, of Hove, we meet jaded GP Dr Arthur Wicksteed (the delightful Jasper Britton) aged 53. His wife Muriel (Catherine Russell) longs for the romance she had, before marrying Wicksteed. The beau (and I use the word loosely here) she rejected is Sir Percy Shorter (Dan Starkey), the five feet nothing president of the BMA.