Phil Willmott
05 Sep
The Kite Runner flies into town
By Phil Willmott Monday, September 5 2016, 08:51
This winter, as we reported earlier this week, London theatre goers can look forward to a stage adaption of THE KITE RUNNER, one of the most beloved books of this century.
The Kite Runner was a first novel by Khaled Hosseini and really struck a chord with readers all over the world. It's setting is specific, Afghanistan, but it's themes of friendship and redemption and single parent family life are so universal that it speaks to people the world over.
02 Sep
New Shows
An Exciting Autumn Line up at Trafalgar Studios
By Phil Willmott Friday, September 2 2016, 00:02
There are exciting rumours about the autumn season at Trafalgar studios with more details available soon. Here’s what we know so far!
The line up looks set to include BURIED CHILD, Sam Shepard’s gleefully gothic tale of dysfunctional rural American life.
01 Sep
News
Half a Sixpence comes to London
By Phil Willmott Thursday, September 1 2016, 15:10
I'm very excited to here at the Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of the classic British musical HALF A SIXPENCE is transferring to the West End.
It was a big hit in the West End and on Broadway in the 1960s and there was a popular film starring Tommy Steele but it’s always been a financial disaster when it’s been revived since. Regional tours and a big revival at West Yorkshire playhouse just didn’t attract an audience.
29 Aug
Reviews
Review: THEY DRINK IT IN THE CONGO at the Almeida Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 29 2016, 13:50
There’s a scene just before the interval of this harrowing, sometimes hilarious always illuminating play about conflict in the Congo which sums us just how complex the situation looks from a liberal western perspective.
A girl has been raped at gun point by rebel soldiers who have also forced her father to take part. A not uncommon experience in a country whose rebel fighters regularly use rape as a weapon. She lies shivering under a blanket and a waster aid worker urges a hysterical western observer to control her emotions and to only speak in a whisper.
29 Aug
New Shows
A Classy Theatrical Travesty Comes to London
By Phil Willmott Monday, August 29 2016, 07:03
If you enjoy a knotty intellectual work out from an evening in the theatre then you can be very excited by the announcement that the Menier Chocolate Factory will be reviving TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard. Previous Menier productions have ended up in the West End and on Broadway and the calibre of those involved in this revival suggest this latest show will do the same.
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