REVIEW: TRAVESTIES (Apollo Theatre) ★★★
A play set in Zurich 1917 involving James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Lenin surely sounds like a comedy waiting to be told?! Tom Stoppard’s Travesties finds a sense of joy in the most intellectual of conversation. Taking the role of narrator, Tom Hollander plays Henry Carr, a minor British diplomat in Zurich 1917 as he […]
Full cast announced for ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD at the Old Vic Theatre
Half a century after its premiere on The Old Vic stage, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight, returns to The Old Vic in its 50th anniversary celebratory production. Against the backdrop of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this mind-bending situation comedy sees two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz (Daniel Radcliffe) […]
David Haig joins Daniel Radcliffe in ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Half a century after its premiere on The Old Vic stage, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, the play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight, returns to The Old Vic in its 50th anniversary celebratory production. Against the backdrop of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, this mind-bending situation comedy sees two hapless minor characters, Rosencrantz (Daniel Radcliffe) […]
TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard comes to the Menier Chocolate Factory
With David Baddiel’s My Family – Not the Sitcom running at the Menier, Into the Woods in rehearsals in New York, Funny Girl and The Truth in the West End, and Tony-winner The Color Purple on Broadway, the Menier Chocolate Factory today announces a major new revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties – the first London […]