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Review – The Pride, Trafalgar Studios 27 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
Well, it’s been a quite a while. The Whingers have been busing themselves doing other things. We’ve been enjoying the summer (once it finally arrived) with copious alfresco eating and drinking (obvs)...
Review – Private Lives, Gielgud Theatre 3 Jul 2013 | 01:45 pm
It seems no time at all since the last West End production of Noël Coward‘s Private Lives. Turns out it’s just over 3 years. If it hadn’t been for that production (starring Kim Cattrall) the Whingers ...
Review – Chimerica, AlmeidaTheatre 2 Jul 2013 | 02:49 pm
Phil once stood in Tiananmen Square, not facing a tank obvs, but facing the body of Chairman Mao (or what’s said to be his body) in the Mao Mausoleum. He also played frisbee there (in the square that ...
Review – The Drowned Man, National Theatre at Temple Studios 28 Jun 2013 | 01:28 pm
It’s been three years since the Whingers tramped out to God-knows-where to see the site-specific, promenady Punchdrunk production The Duchess of Malfi where Andrew sighed,“It’s more of the same, reall...
Review – The Cripple of Inishmaan, Noel Coward Theatre 21 Jun 2013 | 07:43 pm
If the Whingers had £50 million or so in the bank they would be taking life easy. When not idling the hours away in a most dilatory of fashions, they would be jetting off to the far-flung corners of t...
Review – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 21 Jun 2013 | 05:16 pm
With so much riding on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it’s a wonder it doesn’t buckle under the weight of expectation and disappear through the Drury Lane stage. No wonder the little Oompa-Loompas ...
Review – The Amen Corner, National Theatre 18 Jun 2013 | 02:35 pm
No sign of Simon Cowell around but anyway it wasn’t the eggs broken on stage at the National Theatre that stole the show. These eggs (Three. Phil counted), unlike those in Children of the Sun, were at...
Review – Sweet Bird of Youth, Old Vic 10 Jun 2013 | 01:30 pm
The Whingers have always celebrated the virtues of good theatrical wiggery, so we are disposed to discuss one particular wig before moving on. Do not be fooled by the production’s posters (right). The...
Review – Strange Interlude, National Theatre 3 Jun 2013 | 03:05 pm
What are the chances? You wait an eternity for an infidelity tragi-comedy in which the audience are party to the characters’ innermost thoughts and then you are afforded two in a row. Just days after ...
Review – Passion Play, Duke of York’s Theatre 29 May 2013 | 05:47 pm
A Saturday matinee. Both upper levels of the Duke of York’s appeared to be closed, the theatre barely a third full. No wonder some of the cast couldn’t resist sneaking furtive glances into the auditor...
