Tony Homer reviews Yasmina Reza's "Life X 3" at the Loft Theatre, Leamington. Is this just fantasy? Imagine going to see a play (or a film) with no appreciation of the subject matter, the concept, the storyline, anyone else’s critique. You go in maybe knowing the title. That’s all. I was certainly not in this... Continue Reading →
Macbeth at the Loft - No Equivocation Before ‘Macbeth’, the word equivocation appeared only once in Shakespeare’s plays, when Hamlet tells Horatio: ‘We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us’. The Gunpowder Plot and the focus on Catholic testimonies brought this word to the forefront of Jacobean minds. When Macbeth and Banquo... Continue Reading →
Tony Homer reviews Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance", playing at the Loft Theatre, Leamington. Pour me another one, would you? As with Edward Albee’s ‘A Delicate Balance’, now playing at The Loft Theatre, I find myself on the morning after trying to make sense of the events of the previous evening. And I’m not so... Continue Reading →
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 →
Tony Homer reviews Tread The Boards' "Sense and Sensibility" at the Attic Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon. Daughters, duty and dating, in deepest Devonshire. On Tuesday night (27th June) the RSC were holding Press Night for ‘As You Like It’. I bumped into some old friends who had attended and they told me it was imperative that I... Continue Reading →
Tony Homer reviews a musical about the two Big C’s. Cancer and Calendars.
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