West End Tour

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Letter, The

12 Feb 2007

The Letter

WEST END TOUR Ah, I can hear the sweets rattling now. There’s nothing like an old fashioned West End-style thriller to lighten the load of a long theatre season, and Somerset Maugham’s tale of tropical intrigue might just fit the bill. The…

Charley's Aunt

29 Jan 2007

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Mon 12-Sat 17 Feb, then to

WEST END TOUR It’s probably to the detriment of Brandon Thomas’ Charley’s Aunt that, a couple of years after its premiere in 1892, another play featuring two young men willing to engage in a bit of deception and disguise in order to gull elderly…

Woman in Black, The

29 Jan 2007

The Woman in Black

WEST END TOUR These days, the reckoning of the commercial sector in the theatre runs that if it isn’t a musical, it won’t play. Yet, the living, breathing, if at the same time undead contradiction to this truism still seems to have ghostly legs…