Pirandello's The Mountain Giants - Hartley, Ionian Productions, the O'Reilly Theatre 2012
The Mountain Giants is a complex play, further complicated by having been left unfinished by Luigi Pirandello. more
theatre: the Odyssey + the Story of the Four Minute Mile
We saw two plays last week, both of them rather non-traditional. The Odyssey was an aleatoric reworking of The Odyssey, while The Story of the Four Minute Mile was told as the audience walked around the racetrack where Roger Bannister ran the first four minute mile in 1954. more
Clytemnestra - the Oxford Greek Play
On Friday Camilla and I went to see the "Oxford Greek Play" Clytemnestra (actually Aeschylus' The Libation-bearers, or Choephoroi). more
The Red and the Black, dramatised
On Thursday Camilla and Jenny and I went to a performance of a theatre adaptation of Stendhal's The Red and the Black, in Mansfield College chapel. This was an amateur production - the actors, director and production team are all students - but I thought it was rather good. more
Wellcome Collection + The Habit of Art
On Saturday our friends Val and Paul took us to see Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art, at the National Theatre in London. more