Tickets are now on sale for charity concert Love In Mind raising funds for The Harvey Parker Trust. This new charity has been founded in memory of 20-year-old Harvey Parker to support young artists experiencing mental health issues. Parker was a gender fluid, autistic, mixed-race musician who took their own life in December 2021. Led by Mark Rylance… Continue reading Mark Rylance has Love In Mind
Month: March 2023
Women, Beware the Devil
Do you believe in the Devil? You’ll find him today, a prologue to this play at the Almeida, bemoaning that we don’t give him the credit for what he does as he scans the news in the Evening Standard before taking us back to the mid-seventeenth century when people took him suitably seriously. It is… Continue reading Women, Beware the Devil
Beginning
Royal Exchange Joint Artistic Director Bryony Shanahan has relocated David Eldridge’s first play in his ongoing trilogy, originally a hit at the National Theatre in 2017, from Crouch End to West Didsbury. The setting is Laura’s (Erin Shanagher) posh new flat after a Saturday night house-warming party where everyone has gone except Danny (Gerard Kearns),… Continue reading Beginning
Philip Goes Forth
The latest online presentation from New York’s Mint Theater Company was recorded at a live performance in 2014. Playwright George Kelly was prolific a century ago and regarded so highly that he won a Pulitzer Prize and drew comparisons to both Chekhov and Molière. Philip Goes Forth is the lightest of comedies, written and set… Continue reading Philip Goes Forth