Title Page
About This Book
Preface
Introduction
Dramatists and Plays
I. 1970 - 1976
June 2, 1970: Café La Mama
June 4, 1970: Chekhov, The Seagull
May 7, 1972: Polanski, Macbeth
June 2, 1972: de Sica, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
January 3 1976: Pinter, No Man’s Land
January 8, 1976: Shaw, Too True to be Good
January 13, 1976: Ayckbourn, The Norman Conquests
January 22, 1976: Shakespeare, King Henry V
II. 1986
January 6, 1986: Gems, Camille
January 7, 1986: Harwood, Interpreters
January 8, 1986: Shakespeare, Othello
January 9, 1986: Shaw, Mrs Warren's Profession
January 11, 1986: Double Bill: Stoppard, The Real Inspector Hound and Sheridan, The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed
January 14, 1986: Congreve, Love for Love
January 16, 1986: Ayckbourn, A Chorus of Disapproval
January 20, 1986: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
III. 1989 - 1998
June 22, 1989: Shakespeare, King John
June 23, 1989: Shakespeare, The Tempest
June 24, 1989: Granville Barker, The Voysey Inheritance
January 12, 1991: Ray Cooney, Out of Order
January 12, 1998: Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac
January 13, 1998: Stoppard, The Invention of Love
January 14, 1998: Keane, Sive
January 14, 1998: Whitemore, A Letter of Resignation
January 15, 1998: Hare, Amy's View
January 16, 1998: Murphy, All in the Wrong
January 17, 1998: Pinero, The Magistrate
January 17, 1998: Shakespeare, Cymbeline
January 19, 1998: Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
January 21, 1998: Marber, Closer
January 21, 1998: Albee, A Delicate Balance
January 22, 1998: Mysteries
January 23, 1998: Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor
January 24, 1998: Ibsen, Little Eyolf
January 24, 1998: Gogol, The Government Inspector
January 25, 1998: Hartridge, Like a Dancer
January 26, 1998: McGuinness, Mutabilitie
January 27, 1998: Ionesco, The Chairs
January 29, 1998: Shakespeare, Hamlet
January 31, 1998: Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking
February 2, 1998: Townsend, Terms of Abuse
February 3, 1998: Nagy, Never Land
February 5, 1998: Bulgakov, Flight
IV. 2000 - 2001
April 17, 2000: Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona, The Island
April 18, 2000: Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
April 19, 2000: Strindberg, Miss Julie
April 20, 2000: Wright, Cressida
April 20, 2000: Pinter, Celebration and The Room
April 21, 2000: Shakespeare, King Richard II
April 22, 2000: Jones, The Man with Stones in his Pockets
April 22, 2000: Chekhov, The Seagull
April 24, 2000: Nichols, Passion Play
April 25, 2000: Mitchell, The Force of Change
April 26, 2000: Labiche, Threesome
April 27, 2000: Frayne, Copenhagen
April 27, 2000: Gorky, Summerfolk
April 28, 2000: Greig, Victoria
April 29, 2000: (Author unknown), Hard Fruit
April 29, 2000: Martinu, The Greek Passion
March 15, 2001: Shaw, Back to Methuselah
March 16, 2001: Euripides, Medea
March 17, 2001: Coward, Semi-Monde
March 17, 2001: Synge, Playboy of the Western World
March 18, 2001: Wedekind, Lulu
March 19, 2001: Shakespeare, King Henry V
March 21, 2001: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
March 21, 2001: Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
March 22, 2001: Coward, Fallen Angels
March 22, 2001: Orton, Entertaining Mr Sloan
March 23, 2001: Pinter, Remembrance of Things Past
March 24, 2001: Shakespeare, King Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
V. 2002
January 8, 2002: Nichols, Privates on Parade
January 9, 2002: Pinter, No Man’s Land
January 9, 2002: Nichols, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
January 10, 2002: Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
January 10, 2002: Frayne, Noises Off
January 11, 2002: Roche, The Cavalcaders
January 12, 2002: Coward, Star Quality
January 12, 2002: Priestley, Dangerous Corner
January 15, 2002: McDonough, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
January 16, 2002: Kaufman and Ferber, The Royal Family
January 16, 2002: Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
January 17, 2002: Churchill, Top Girls
January 17, 2002: Shakespeare, King John
January 18, 2002: Shakespeare, Hamlet
January 19, 2002: Friel, Faith Healer
After May 22, 2002: Parker (film), The Importance of Being Earnest
VI. 2003
January 7, 2003: Gilbert, Engaged
January 8, 2003: Hampton, The Talking Cure
January 9, 2003: Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer and January 10, 2003: De Angelis, A Laughing Matter
January 11, 2003: Ayckbourn, Damsels in Distress
January 13, 2003: Shakespeare, Edward III
January 14, 2003: Shakespeare, Macbeth
January 15, 2003: Marston, The Malcontent
January 16, 2003: Wilson, King Hedley II
January 17, 2003: Massinger, The Roman Actor
January 18, 2003: Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession
January 18, 2003: Havel, The Beggar’s Opera
January 19, 2003: Synge, In the Shadow of the Glen and The Tinker's Wedding
January 20, 2003: Fletcher, The Island Princess
January 21, 2003: Rushdie, Reade, and Supple, Midnight’s Children
January 22, 2003: Hare, The Breath of Life
January 22, 2003: Munro, Iron
January 23, 2003: Coward, The Vortex
January 23, 2003: Shakespeare, The Tempest
January 24, 2003: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
January 25, 2003: Jonson, Marston, and Chapman, Eastward Ho!
January 25, 2003: Gilbert and Sullivan, H. M. S. Pinafore
December 9, 2003: Shakespeare, As You Like It
VII. 2004
January 6, 2004: O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra
January 7, 2004: Pinter, Betrayal
January 8, 2004: Beckett, Happy Days
January 9, 2004: Hampton, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
January 10, 2004: Poliakoff, Sweet Panic
January 10, 2004: Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
January 12, 2004: Hare, The Permanent Way
January 14, 2004: Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance
January 14, 2004: Laurens, Five Gold Rings
January 15, 2004: Stoppard, Jumpers
January 17, 2004: Hare, Secret Rapture
January 21, 2004: McDonagh, Pillowman
January 21, 2004: Bourne, Play without Words
January 22, 2004: Offenbach, Les Contes d’Hoffmann
January 22, 2004: Albee, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
January 24, 2004: Fletcher, The Tamer Tamed and Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
January 25, 2004: Retrospective: Albee, The Goat and Other Plays
VIII. 2005
January 10, 2005: Eldridge, Festen
January 11, 2005: Kwei-Armah, Fix Up
January 11, 2005: Wasserman, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
January 13, 2005: Erdman, The Mandate
January 14, 2005: Shakespeare, King Lear
January 15, 2005: Carr, By the Bog of Cats
January 15, 2005: Shakespeare, Macbeth
January 20, 2005: Puccini, Turandot
January 21, 2005: Complicite, A Minute Too Late
January 21, 2005: Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance
IX. 2006
March 7, 2006: Shaw, You Never Can Tell
March 8, 2006: Kaufman and Hart, Once in a Lifetime
March 10, 2006: Ravenhill, The Cut
March 11, 2006: Williams, Period of Adjustment
March 13, 2006: Harrower, Blackbird
March 15, 2006: Hampton, Embers
March 17, 2006: Murray-Smith, Honour
March 18, 2006: Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
March 20, 2006: Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin
March 25, 2006: Shakespeare, As You Like It
March 27, 2006: Bennett, The Old Country
March 31, 2006: Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun
April 1, 2006: Miller, The Crucible
April 1, 2006: Offenbach, La Belle Hélène
May 14, 2006: Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
X. 2007 - 2009
November 26, 2007: Donizetti, L'elisir d’amore
November 28, 2007: Wycherley, The Country Wife
November 29, 2007: Euripides, Women of Troy
November 30, 2007: Coward, Present Laughter
December 3, 2007: Frisch, The Arsonists
December 6, 2007: Britten, The Turn of the Screw
December 7, 2007: Britten, Albert Herring
December 8, 2007: Ionesco, Rhinoceros
October 1, 2009: Shakespeare, All’s Well that Ends Well
December 5, 2009: Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
XI. 2010 - 2011
April 22, 2010: Bennett, The Habit of Art
June 28, 2010: Boucicault, London Assurance
February 3, 2011: Shakespeare, King Lear
A Season in London, 2011
April 16, 2011 and April 21, 2011: Dear, Frankenstein
June 30, 2011: Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard
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