Stoppard and Sheridan at Chichester
Two sparky delights. But were they one tad too perfect, too technical? Read more...
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Shaw’s “Pygmalion” at Chichester Festival Theatre
The audience was lively by Chi standards, and that sort of swept one along... Read more...
“Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” at Chichester
We paid £50-odd for our two tickets, and added to it nearly £9 to buy the script by Howard Brenton. We left at half-time, and would willingly have paid a little more than£25 to be out of the place. The £9 was so I could reassure myself that there wasn't some second act bombshell which made this dire piece worth watching. Read more...
Schiller’s Wallenstein at Chichester
Mike Poulton's latest excursion into adapting Friedrich Schiller provides my first into seeing any of the great German's work. It was a lot more swashbuckling (schlossbuckling, one might say) than I expected. Read more...