Phil Willmott
08 Jan
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Review: LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES at the Donmar Warehouse
By Phil Willmott Friday, January 8 2016, 08:42
Back in the 1980s when greed was good and power was sexy this adaptation of an 18th century French novel was a massive hit.
It concerns an unhealthy alliance between a male and female aristocrat who've nothing else to do but plot how to ruin their acquaintances through scandal and heart break, their weapon is their own attractiveness.
28 Dec
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Review of THE DAZZLE at Found 111
By Phil Willmott Monday, December 28 2015, 10:34
Andrew Scott is undoubtedly one of the most watchable and clever actors in the UK.
I first noticed him in two scorching performances at the National Theatre including as the lead in Ibsen’s vast rambling epic, EMPEROR AND GALILEAN in which he brilliantly played a charismatic leader from youthful idealism to self-doubt and introspection; holding his own amidst a huge cast and towering set which could easily have engulfed an actor of his age. In the last few years he’s attained celebrity status as Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ arch enemy in the Benedict Cumberbatch re-boot of the detective’s adventures on TV.
17 Dec
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Review: GRAEME OF THRONES at the Leicester Square Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, December 17 2015, 16:14
I’m nuts about the HBO TV series GAME OF THRONES so I was very excited to discover this comedy sketch show, promising to parody it. I caught up with it two nights after press night and have been intrigued since to notice a couple of rave reviews on the internet.
The premise is that a bloke called Graeme has decided to stage a tribute to his favourite show and roped in Paul, his best friend from school and Bryony, the girl they both had a crush on, who now fancies herself as a serious performance artists. Graeme has got wind that Cameron Macintosh might be in the audience, increasing the pressure to succeed and persuade him to produce the show.
17 Dec
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Review: MACBETH at the Young Vic
By Phil Willmott Thursday, December 17 2015, 15:20
I know many of you will have already considered how much Shakespeare’s MACBETH could be improved by the insertion of interpretive dance and hip-hop music.
No? Me neither but that seems to have been the overriding concept behind Carrie Cracknell & Lucy Guerin's new production at the Young Vic.
17 Dec
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Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Noel Coward Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, December 17 2015, 10:01
This new, much anticipated version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is not only a celebration of all things festive but also of theatre itself.
Director Phelim McDermott has long been a master of unlocking an audience’s imagination with simple and clever use of props in magical ways, so it makes sense that he has staged this most Victorian of stories amidst the back stage chaos of a Victorian theatre.
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