Hiran Abeysekera as Pi with Richard Parker the tiger (Photo: Johan Persson)
NEWS: Life of Pi opens at Wyndhams 15 November 2021
Life of Pi Wyndhams
LizCarr as Dr Emma Brookner and Ben Daniels as Ned Weeks (Photo: Helen Maybanks)
REVIEW: The Normal Heart, Olivier, National Theatre (2021)
The play opens with a silent funereal tribute with the whole cast gathered around a flame in a brazier. As the brazier is raised to the flies, a furious party ensues with disco music. In Scene 1 in July 1981 we see Craig Donner (Elander Moore) terrified at his diagnosis. Craig Donner is barely out of his teens and he is frightened and shaking with emotion. An older man David (Richard Cant) has dark lesions on his face.
NEWS: Jodie Comer to make her West End debut
in Prima Facie at the Pinter
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister who loves to win. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; prosecuting; cross examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.