Orange Tree
Mottled Lines, Orange Tree TheatreWednesday, 11 July 2012![]() At the end of The Riots, the Tricycle Theatre’s verbatim response to last year’s upheavals edited by Gillian Slovo and Cressida Brown, a local Muslim whose home was burnt down in Tottenham was asked to give his view on why it had happened. He summed... Read more... |
Next Time I’ll Sing to You, Orange Tree TheatreSaturday, 12 November 2011![]() Some plays are so weird they defy description. Well, almost. One of these must surely be the late James Saunders’s deeply absurdist play, whose first outing in 1963 launched the career of the young Michael Caine. Soon after, its author won a... Read more... |
The Company Man, Orange Tree TheatreSunday, 10 October 2010![]() Why ironic? Because this is one fella whose bad temper risks isolating him altogether from human company - except that misery, we're told, loves companionship, in which case William's entire family is going down with the ship. Whether audiences will... Read more... |
The Thunderbolt, Orange Tree TheatreSunday, 05 September 2010![]() So much of this London theatre year has been spent watching American work that it's doubly bracing to find some genuine English dramatic rediscoveries interspersed amongst The Prisoner of Second Avenue and La Bête one month, Clybourne Park and (... Read more... |
Taking Steps, Orange Tree TheatreMonday, 29 March 2010![]() One of the stranger facts of the theatre in recent years is the comparatively short shrift given to Alan Ayckbourn, who was once a seasonal mainstay. The upside of that same lessening of productions is that those Ayckbourn outings that do come along... Read more... |
The Lady or the Tiger, Orange Tree TheatreThursday, 07 January 2010![]() Endure this bafflingly pointless, sparsely staged and hopelessly dated musical, and you might find that the prospect of bloody death in the jaws of an enraged tiger somewhat loses its sting; you certainly won’t care whether that’s the fate in store... Read more... |
The Making of Moo, Orange Tree TheatreTuesday, 17 November 2009![]() Reviving rarely performed plays is a high-risk strategy. On the one hand, there’s the chance of discovering a forgotten gem; on the other, there may be good reasons for the play being rarely performed. Nigel Dennis’s The Making of Moo was first... Read more... |
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