Tony
@tony2times
Theatre, Doctor Who, wrestling and comics. Desperate attempts at wit and acceptance - @TonyTimes2 on the bird place
Well, when I was last at the New York/New Jersey Stadium it was considerably more entertaining than this. It even survived the presence of two SNL 'comedians' #WorldCup26 #SPAARG
I haven’t wanted anything to do with Henderson this tournament but given the opposition, maybe it’s time to load his cast and bring him on
Simon Stone, who I tend to love, had a play postponed because Chris Pine was busy. So at short notice he cracked out an adaptation of The Oresteia, originally a trilogy. At first preview it was 4hr 35 long. How Do you cut 50 minutes in four days(?!)
Even accounting for Sandra Oh’s absence, I can’t see a redeeming quality in The Misanthrope. Surface level criticism of society cut off by cheap gags, while pretending to be above it. Quite something to cast an actor from a Simon Stephens play specifically to take potshots at Stephens’ plays
Yeah I normally get a bad spot at the Roundhouse so I was miffed when that was the venue. Managed to get farther forward than I normally do and realised it’s much smaller than I remember
Cyrano de Bergerac feels like a play from another time. It has stagey ham acting a lot of performers seem embarrassed by now and shows why they’re idiots to be. Adrian Lester and Susannah Fielding really move you in this otherwise hilarious and slightly long weird play about catfishing
Turns out Harry’s new album is pretty good when you have a full orchestra behind him rather than the band on the record. A really superb night
Partially excited about getting a new Gary Sparrow adventure (although having rewatched the series since funding, it’s much worse than I remember) but mostly excited to see how they’re going to cram 93 fully named characters into one book
I'll never stop looking at this Frankenstein's monster of a credit about Sting's The Last Ship
Care at the Young Vic, set in a nursing home, was never going to be a barrel of laughs but it’s surprisingly comfortable to spend two hours in. It mixes some wonderfully sweet human moments of humour and yearning with some unconvincing drama that hasn’t found its feet. Lots of the audience in bits
You wait your whole life to see Krapp’s Last Tape and then two come along at once, both when you’re nearly 39. it’s perhaps Beckett’s most trying play so it’s still something of a mystery but I enjoyed Gary Oldman‘s performance more than Stephen Rea. Plus this comes with a funny 15 minute opener