First off, I think I have to say how much I was looking forward to going to see this play. As a huge fan of the 1998 film starring Jane Horrocks, I was so hopeful that this production was going to be just as impressive, and as moving. It didn’t disappoint.
Comedy Legend or Irrelevant Dinosuar? A bit like John Peel playing The Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’ twice in succession on his radio show in 1978, I would gladly have watched a second consecutive performance of this Mark Carey play on Thursday night. And that really should be ‘nuff said. However, name a British comic genius. Cooper,... Continue Reading →
Tony Homer reviews "Under Katyń" at The Bear Pit, Stratford-Upon-Avon. The Past Is Not a Foreign Country The prospect of an emotionally charged piece of theatre referencing the massacre of 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war might not seem like a jolly way to spend an evening. But when the play itself... Continue Reading →
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