Roy Williams is not shy about his intent to write a ‘huge family epic’. The play is indeed sprawling and teeming with important ideas across three generations featuring a mother who travelled to the UK on HMT Empire Windrush and her daughters and grandchildren. At the centre of the play (and literally centred on stage…
That American playwright Theresa Rebeck’s new play, set in Pennsylvania, makes its global debut in London is indeed a treat. Featuring the mighty US star Bill Pullman, as Daniel, an insufferable patriarch on his deathbed, elevates the specialness of this production. But it is the sheer genius of David Harbour, particularly well-known for his role…
I have to admit I’m not a big fan of Elvis Presley although a few years ago my wife and I renewed our wedding vows in front of an Elvis impersonator at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas – but that’s another story! However, he did record some superb songs and the chance of…
In November 1978, an ex-policeman took up his gun and shot the mayor and a member of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco. Nothing too exciting you may think. Such things happen all the time. Maybe so, but the reason we remember these murders is that Supervisor Milk, was the first openly gay man…
On the daily commute, do you look at the other people around you and wonder about them? What is their story, and what are their lives like? With no real information, except maybe scraps of an overheard conversation, do you then start making up stories about them? I used to be worried that I was…
Ben Brown’s new play dramatises the fascinating true story of how SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler is persuaded by the ‘miraculous touch’ of Felix Kersten, the Nazi’s Finnish physiotherapist, to permit the International Red Cross to rescue some three thousand women (about half of them Jewish) from a concentration camp towards the end of WW2, as…
