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Mother of all pantos
Why to see Mother Goose for the panto-haters In that far long pre-pandemic era of 2017 I went to see the Peter Pan pantomime. I am not from the UK. When I came across the word ‘pantomime’ it immediately conjured up images of Commedia dell’arte – mimed Harlequinades filled with music and lots of slapstick…
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Is this even a play?
The Lehman Trilogy This is not a play. It’s an audible dramatisation randomly interspersed with stage directions: Call me old fashioned, but isn’t the idea behind acting that the audience sees the characters perform rather being told about what the characters are doing? It is not a drama, it is three characters talking AT you,…
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