#The Duke Of York&039;s Theatre

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Romeo and Video

ROMEO & JULIET The Duke of York’s Theatre, London, Thursday 27th June 2024 The best production of this play I’ve ever seen was many years ago.  Six actors performing in the grounds of Sudeley Castle, the audience on blankets, snacking from picnic hampers.  The only liberties taken with the text were to facilitate the doubling-trebling-quadrupling of roles.   There was live music and singing. …

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Who Wore What Jewels Weekly

We are rounding up the best jewels of the week. From Margot Robbie wearing Taffin Jewelry’s iconic ‘Ring Pop’ complete with eye-popping Himalaya tourmaline for the ‘Barbie’ premiere to Rita Ora decked out in edgy and thorny silver gems by British jeweler Shaun Lean and A$AP Rocky’s blinged-out ticking time bomb of a necklace showcased in his latest music video. Scroll down to see who wore what…

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A Week At The Theatre | That Is Not Who I Am, The Unfriend, The Glass Menagerie.

New reviews! —> A Week At The Theatre | That Is Not Who I Am, The Unfriend, The Glass Menagerie.

It’s been quite a full week of plays! One off west end, one trip to Chichester and one West End revival. Bit of a mixed bag, but glad to have experienced all three. That Is Not Who I Am at the Royal CourtRating: it’s been a few days and I still have no idea how to rate thisBooking until: 16th JulyTicket link: https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/that-is-not-who-i-am/ Oh, the drama. There’s…

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My Pop Life #146 : Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann

My Pop Life #146 : Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann

Taxi Driver – Bernard Herrmann

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I was already deeply in love with the cinema on July 5th 1976.  The day after a surreal and wonderful bicentennial Disneyland experience where Simon and I actually saw The Monkees live (see My Pop Life #168 Pleasant Valley Sunday) we are taken into Hollywood by Nick and his sister Caroline to see the film Taxi Driver.  Neither my diary nor my memory tells me the…

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Blowing The Whistle

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE Duke of York’s Theatre, London, Thursday 22nd February 2024 Henrik Ibsen’s play from 1882 is brought kicking and swearing into the 21st century in this new adaptation by Florian Borchmeyer and director Thomas Ostermeier.  What’s wrong, you might think, with a straight translation from the original Norwegian performed in late Victorian attire, and leaving us to draw our…

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Flooded with Meaning

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Duke of York’s Theatre, London, Saturday 13th July, 2019

  Duncan Macmillan’s new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1886 play is flooded with pertinence.  Never mind nineteenth century Norway, many of the lines come across as direct commentary on the state of our nation today, eliciting wry laughter from the audience.  Ibsen-Macmillan make satirical quips, mainly through the mouthpiece of…

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Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour @ The Duke of York's Theatre

I loved the fantastic #OurLadies of Perpetual Succour @ the Duke of York's!

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour follows six Scottish, Catholic schoolgirls who are on a trip to compete in a choir competition. Lee Hall’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s novel ‘The Sopranos’ is a fantastically funny and empowering play about a female friendship group, not once does it feel patronising, demeaning or ridiculing towards the six girls. Vicky Featherstone directs a brilliant group of…