By Phil Willmott Friday, September 1 2017, 16:09
If you fancy some free, critically acclaimed open-air theatre over the next couple of days why not catch one of the last performances of my production of The Odyssey, a re-imagining of one of the world's greatest adventure stories.
Ancient Greece's epic text is presented as a thrilling open-air theatre experience played out in The Scoop amphitheatre overlooking Tower Bridge - and it's completely free.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, August 31 2017, 10:23
To mark the 70th anniversary of India’s independence the Globe theatre have commissioned playwright Tanika Gupta to dramatise key events in the lead up to the partition of what was formerly British India. As a central focus Gupta adapts her family history concerning her grandfather’s brother Dinesh, a Bengali revolutionary (or terrorist and would-be martyr depending on your perspective) drawing upon his letters written during imprisonment.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, August 31 2017, 07:48
I'd heard conflicting things about this show, most of the reviews have been glowing but the New York Times critic and a few of my friends had been less enthusiastic.
I'm glad I didn't listen to them and checked it out for myself because I thought it exceptional.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, August 24 2017, 13:50
I can remember a time when productions of Joe Orton's comedies were as ubiquitous as Noel Coward's.
Although stylistically these gay writers couldn't be more different, both their work symbolised a theatrical era. If Coward was all about a mid Twentieth Century style and wit that has turned out to have timeless appeal, the spiky, surreal, dark humour of Orton's writing, conceived to shock and be anti-establishment in the 1960s, can either be roll-on-the floor hilarious or seem dated, infantile and tedious depending on the national mood of the decade in which it's performed.
By Phil Willmott Thursday, August 24 2017, 09:44
I finally caught up with the much anticipated, much acclaimed West End revival of Cat on A Hot Tin Roof.
I'm happy to confirm that Sienna Miller as Maggie, the nervy and glamorous neglected wife of an ex-athlete and cat of the title, is as good as the reviews say (even on a Saturday matinee when some stars in other productions have been known to “phone it in”).
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