REVIEW: The Truth About Blayds, Finborough Theatre (2025)
Victorian Celebrity High Comedy “Is it too late to change it now? as God said when he made Swinburne."Oliver Blayds The Cast (Photo: Carla Joy Evans) So often I go…
Victorian Celebrity High Comedy “Is it too late to change it now? as God said when he made Swinburne."Oliver Blayds The Cast (Photo: Carla Joy Evans) So often I go…
Redgraves in The Cherry Orchard from 2000 "Throughout the history of this district there've beenonly two kinds of people: those who own the landand those who work on it.... In…
What Yaël Farber has constructed is a Macbeth full of action and visual, visceral excitement. Still moments are rare as there is almost always something to watch. Along with the audience are the three Weird Sisters (Diane Fletcher, Valerie Lilley and Maureen Hibbert) who watch from the back of the smoky stage throughout the play when they are not speaking their ominously accurate predictions. The programme explains that the histories of the Wyrd sisters "are a reformed patchwork of myths and narratives…. who hold all destinies in their hands."