Jenny Seagrove Archives

Francesca annis as Madame Ranyevskaya and Ian McKellen as Firs (Photo: Jack Merriman)

REVIEW: The Cherry Orchard, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:17 October 2021
Post category:Outside London Play Review
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Commotion greets the arrival of the carriages carrying Madame Ranyevskaya (Francesca Annis) and her family. There are leather suitcases, trunks and hat boxes. The aged Russian servant Firs (Ian McKellen, playing a man five years older than his actual age) is seen with hairy dundrearies and a bald head but in formal wear.

Ian McKellen as Hamlet (Photo: BKL )

REVIEW: Hamlet, Theatre Royal Windsor (2021) with Ian McKellen

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 July 2021
Post category:Outside London Play Review
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Hamlet the Dane with Ian McKellen "I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have, by the very cunning of the scene, Been struck so to the soul…

Martin Shaw as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Jenny Seagrove as Melissa Gardner (Photo: Paul Coltas and Simon Vail)

REVIEW: Love Letters, Theatre Royal Haymarket (2020) back 19th May

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:21 April 2021
Post category:Play Review West End
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It was the New York Times who dubbed the late AR Gurney as the playwright who explored Upper-Crust Anxieties. In his Pulitzer Prize nominated play Love Letters, he uses the epistolatory style to explore the relationship between Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Martin Shaw) and Melissa Gardner (Jenny Seagrove) who first meet and correspond as schoolchildren and who write letters to each other for all of her lifetime.