Steve Thompson’s play is about Michael Palin and Terry Gilliam’s trip to the US in 1975 to challenge ABC’s edit of the fourth series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. What seems superficially to be a simple tale of plucky Palin and honorary Brit Gilliam taking on the Goliath figure of the culturally bland American network,… Read More
Tag: hampstead theatre
Am getting out of order – I saw this back in July. Loyalty, by Sarah Helm, is set during the run-up to the Iraq war, and around the period of the inquiry into it. Helm is the wife of Tony Blair’s chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell. Maxine Peake plays Laura a staunchly anti-war journalist with experience in… Read More
Strange one this – more hour-long art installation than conventional play. Almost no dialogue but plenty of noise. Director Katie Mitchell very successfully creates an uncomfortale mood of claustrophobia and psychological imprisonment, but does nothing with it. 6/10
Fantastic moody drama from Gary “The Shield” Lennon. Sexual tension between all the characters, great punk soundtrack, barely suppressed violence and snappy banter. Excellent cast, especially Natalie Dormer as Pat, the central character. Don’t mess about, this play’s only on until November 27th. Go and see it. Now. 8/10 (you can also read a longer… Read More