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Aspects of ageing

We all know the harsher facts of 21st Century life. Perhaps save for in some distant, Third World, geographically-or-climate-change-challenged countries, continents and regions, the civilised human world faces an innumerable series of societal issues of which ongoing medical advances and healthy [...]

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Half a Sixpence

Having suffered through No Man’s Land it was an unadulterated pleasure to visit  the Chichester Festival Theatre for Half A Sixpence. I remember the impact that musical and film with Tommy Steele had on me for the perception of the cruelty of the upper class provincial snob. The story as [...]

August 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

No Mans Land

There is a considerable body of theatrical opinion that holds that Harold Pinter is Britain’s greatest living playwright and another less vocal one that cannot fathom his works. I belong to the second school. Last night I saw No Man’s Land at the Theatre Royal  Brighton. I was more [...]

August 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

The ‘art’ of political correctness

For good or ill, we live in a politically-correct world. I say that because it seems to me there are both plusses and minuses to asserting the right of groups of human beings not to be discriminated against – not least that, when you get down to the bottom line and specific matters of principle [...]

August 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Le nozze di Figaro /Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne is so efficiently run and the production values so high you are pretty much guaranteed an enjoyable evening – though you pay for it. For my regular companion this is her treat, which she calls her holiday. So I lay on the Ritz with a limo service, champagne and picnic lakeside in [...]

July 16, 2016 // 0 Comments

Dawn chorus

Yesterday I was pleased to join the Rusters’ outing to the Minerva at the Chichester Festival Theatre preceded by a very pleasant and lively lunch at Murray’s at the back of The Ship in North Street – especially since, when the expedition was first mooted, and ironically in view of my [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

First Light/ Minerva Theatre

In reviewing this play by Mark Hayhurst who had a great success both at Chichester and the West End with Taken at  Midnight I will defer to co-Ruster Henry Elkins on the military aspects. In brief, it tells the story of two deserters from the Manchester pals Regiment – Bert Ingham and [...]

June 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A great man remembered

Yesterday at a charity lunch the host on my table was Brook Land. Brook as at the same school as me and, in introducing him to an old friend from the same school who is a keen lover of the theatre, I mentioned that Brook’s father David Land was an eminent impresario of his or any day. So [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Ross/Chichester Festival Theatre

Ross/T.E.Lawrence was a complex man and unravelling him is no easy matter. Much of his achievements and sufferings are gleaned from his own work Seven Pillars of Wisdom and therefore uncorroborated. Then we have our own perception of Lawrence of Arabia based on the David Lean film and Peter [...]

June 8, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera is itself an adaptation of John Gay’s The Beggars Opera and Rufus Norris, director of this and the National Theatre has again adapted this to the modern world, less by locale as it’s still in the East End, more by values as the cast has many black actors and a [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

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