REVIEW: KENNY MORGAN (Arcola Theatre) ★★★★
Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea, which is currently enjoying a successful run at the National Theatre, is starkly autobiographical, inspired by the suicide of actor Kenny Morgan. Morgan was Rattigan’s secret lover for almost ten years before he left Rattigan for Alec Lennox, a younger actor. When Morgan saw his life spiralling out […]
REVIEW: KENNY MORGAN (Arcola Theatre)
The Arcola hosts the world premiere of Kenny Morgan; a new play by Mike Poulton, Tony nominated for the Broadway productions of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. Lucy Bailey directs this play based on the real life events believed to have inspired Terence Rattigan’s famous play, The Deep Blue Sea. In a letter […]
The Goodbye Girl – Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Life isn’t fair. As a young girl I believed that I’d grow up, get married and have children. Simple, expected and so straightforward. But that is not the case. Life never pans out the way you expect and the so-called nuclear family no longer exists. But this doesn’t matter. Based on the 1977 film, The […]