The Scribbles 2013

Another year, another heap of theatre clambered across, waded through and, occasionally, stumbled under. My aim at the start of last year was to cut down on the theatre going this year to give me more time to write - and while I've edited Book One to death and got 50,000 words of Book Two down on paper, I'm not entirely sure that I've succeeded. True, I've gone from seeing 145 different productions last year down to 115 productions this year - but once I add the play readings, works in progress and repeat trips I've only actually managed to reduce it from 158 trips to 150 trips. So, apparently, this was the year of me seeing things more than once. Anyhow, on to the awards - which this year are sincere, silly and, sometimes, a bit mean (sorry about that).

Theatre 2014

JANUARY

4 - American Pyscho - Almeida Theatre
6 - Emil and the Detectives - National Theatre
7 - Quidam - Royal Albert Hall (with Michele)
8 - Wendy and Peter Pan - RST
9 - Wendy and Peter Pan PUP - RST (with Jan)
10 - Ghosts - Trafalgar Studios
12 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk (with Kinga)
17 - Duchess of Malfi - Sam Wanamaker Theatre

19 - Read Not Dead: The Fatal Secret - Shakespeare's Globe (with Gabriella)
22 - King Lear - National Theatre
23 - Travesti - Etcetera Theatre
24 - Les Miserables - Queen's Theatre (with Michele and Kinga)
25 - The Blackest Black - Hampstead Theatre (with Jan)
26 - The Keepers of Infinite Space - Park Theatre
27 - What the Women Did - Southwark Playhouse (with Gabriella) 
31 - Fortune's Fool - Old Vic (with Jan and Kez)

FEBRUARY
1 - The Body of an American - Gate Theatre
2 - The Light Princess - National Theatre

3 - The Pass - Royal Court
4 - From Here To Eternity - Shaftesbury Theatre (with Alex)
5 - The Book of Mormon - Novello Theatre (with Alex)

5 - Lost Boy - Charing Cross Theatre (with Alex)
7 - Taming of the Shrew - Courtyard Theatre
7 - Wendy and Peter Pan - RST (with Janine and Gang)
8 - Wolf Hall - Swan Theatre (with Janine and Gang)
8 - Bring Up The Bodies - Swan Theatre (with Janine and Gang)
12 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk (with Jan)
13 - Superior Donuts - Southwark Playhouse
16 - Outbox: Snapshots - Arcola Theatre
17 - Blurred Lines - The Shed (with Rob)
19 - Symphony - Vault Festival
27 - Urinetown - St James Theatre (with Emma)
28 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk

MARCH

3 - King Lear - National Theatre (with Jan) 

4 - 1984 - Almeida Theatre
7 - The A-Z of Mrs P - Southwark Playhouse (with Jan)
8 - Analog.Ue - National Theatre (with Jan)
8 - The Act - Trafalgar Studios
8 - Unusual Unions - Royal Court

8 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk (with Jan)

13 - The Knight of the Burning Pestle - Sam Wanamaker Theatre

15 - A Life of Galileo - RSC at Cheltenham Everyman (with Mum)

19 - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Propeller at Cheltenham Everyman (with Mum)

22 - Comedy of Errors - Propeller at Cheltenham Everyman (with Mum)

25 - Urinetown - St. James Theatre (with Jan)

28 - Blithe Spirit - Gielgud Theatre

29 - Merchant of Venice (Playing Shakespeare) - Globe

29 - The Massacre of Paris - Rose Bankside

APRIL
3 - EFG Short Story Award - Foyles
4 - A Taste of Honey - National Theatre
5 - Versailles - Donmar Warehouse
5 - A View From the Bridge - Young Vic
6 - At The End of Everything Else - Unicorn Theatre (with Jan)
6 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk (with Jan)
10 - The Winter's Tale - Royal Opera House (with Maxi and Jan)
11 - The Roaring Girl - Swan Theatre (with Jan and Rob)
12 - Henry IV part I - RST (with Jan and Rob)
12 - Henry IV part II - RST (with Jan and Rob)
17 - The Silver Tassie - National Theatre (with Jan)
18 - The Drowned Man - Punchdrunk
23 - Hamlet - Shakespeare's Globe (with Kinga)
26 - Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare's Globe (with Kinga)
27 - Venice Preserved - Greenwich (with Jan, Gabriella and Nick)
30 - Sunny Afternoon - Hampstead Theatre

MAY
2 - Arden of Faversham - Swan Theatre (with Janine)
3 - Henry IV part I - RST (with Janine)
3 - Henry IV part II - RST (with Janine)
5 - In The Vale of Health: Japes - Hampstead Theatre
8 - In The Vale of Health: Japes Too - Hampstead Theatre
9 - In The Vale of Health: Michael - Hampstead Theatre
15 - Birdland - Royal Court
17 - Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare's Globe
19 - Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare's Globe
21 - Charles III - Almeida
25 - Anthony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare's Globe

JUNE

1 - Sonnets - Southbank Centre
7 - Midsummer Night's Dream in BSL - Shakespeare's Globe
12 - The Last Days of Troy - Shakespeare's Globe

JULY
2 - Monty Python - O2
4 - Rape of Lucrece - Swan Theatre (with Janine)
5 - The Roaring Girl - Swan Theatre (with Janine)
11 - Mr. Burns - Almeida
13 - Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare's Globe
15 - Medea - National Theatre
25 - A Streetcar Named Desire - Young Vic

AUGUST
1 - The White Devil - Swan Theatre (with Janine)
2 - Two Gentleman of Verona - RST (with Janine)
30 - The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare's Globe

SEPTEMBER
28 - Anoushkar Shankhar celebrates Rabindranath Tagore - Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

OCTOBER
10 - Dr Scroggy's War - Shakespeare's Globe
11 - Pitcairn - Shakespeare's Globe
11 - Julius Caesar - Shakespeare's Globe
12 - The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare's Globe
25 - James I: The Key Will Keep The Lock - National Theatre
25 - James II: Day of the Innocents - National Theatre
25 - James III: The True Mirror - National Theatre

TO BOOK

Tis A Pity She's A Whore - Barbican (9th Apr to 26th Apr)
Never Try This At Home - Soho Theatre (2nd Apr to 27th Apr)

The Testament of Mary - Barbican (1st May to 25th May)
Ubu Roi - Barbican (18th Jun to 22nd Jun)

Holy Warriors - Shakespeare's Globe (19th Jul to 24th Aug)

The Unexcitingly Titled... Theatre Awards 2012 (Part 2)

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The Unexcitingly Titled... Theatre Awards 2012 (Part 1)

Another year, another set of theatre round-ups abandoned half way through. Oh well, I suspect I will never be a regular theatrical blogger. But, like a ghost haunting the ruins, I couldn't resist coming back and posting some biased, silly, and very tongue in cheek awards for the theatre I've seen in 2012. So that's 145 plays, musicals, and readings seen a 158 times (which at least, I suppose, means I finally cut down on repeat trips). And the winners are...

Theatre 2013

Theatre 2012

Monthly Round-Up: June 2012

Whups. Where I knew in advance that May was going to be busy, June somehow snuck up on me, with an equally daunting 18 plays (20 if you count repeat trips). And, as it was also a manic month at work, I have somehow failed to make any notes to jog the memory. But let's see what I can remember.

Programme Re-homing Drive - CLOSED

Thanks guys, the programmes are all now successfully re-homed.

All right folks, as I'm going to be moving house... twice... during the Olympics (god help me), I've decided to re-home some of my programmes. I'm not particularly looking for money, though any donations are welcome and if I need to post the programmes I'd appreciate getting the cost back. Anyway, the list is below the cut, if you fancy any you can leave a note in the comments or DM me on twitter (@lorannah - ETA: If I don't follow you, feel me and I shall do, so we can sort out delivery). Thanks.

Monthly Round-Up: May 2012 part II

So second half of May and what a ridiculous (and excellent) month it's proved to be: 22 plays (plus one repeat trip) in 11 different languages, with 11 different Shakespeare plays and 11 people playing Richard of Gloucester (though technically one was in April). Which apparently makes 11 - and its multiples - the number sponsoring this month's theatre.

Monthly Round-Up: May 2012 part I

I've decided to split May in to two posts, partly to keep on top of the almost ridiculous number of plays I'm seeing this month and partly to fit in with the theme of plays followed by Roman numerals that I seem to have fallen into.

Monthly Round-Up: April 2012

In a first, I have actually got a month written up before I've started going to the next month's theatre. This is because May is, frankly, scary and I'm going to need the time to write it up as I go along. Anyway, April looked like...

Monthly Round-Up: March 2012

Late again. Can only blame the fact that I've been in something of a writing frenzy (of the fictional kind) this last month and completely forgot I hadn't rounded-up March. Whups.

Monthly Round-Up: February 2012

Monthly Round-Up: January 2012

As you may or (more probably) may not have noticed, this blog has rather dropped off the face of the internet over the last six months, beyond the occasional post. In the end it's proved too time consuming for me to write individual reviews and there's certainly no chance I'll be catching up. But I'm not quite ready to throw the blog away yet, so I thought I'd try doing some monthly round-ups of what I've been seeing.

Theatre Round-Up 2011: The Techies

This theatre round-up is brought to you by an excess of lucozade and a fever (sorry about that folks).

Firstly a quick note about the division between my technical and artistic categories – it’s basically rubbish. As the vast majority of the awards in this section are also highly artistic, whilst the awards in the artistic section are equally accomplished technically. But it keeps the sections down to manageable levels, so we’re just going to have to go with it.

Theatre Round-Up 2011: The Arties

The no less technical and no more artistic awards for my favourite performances and productions of 2011. The eagle eyed among you may notice a surprising absence of Shakespeare in this list (though he’s not missing entirely) - this is because to make my choices easier I’ve given him a separate post, coming up next.

Theatre Round-Up 2011: The Willies

I might have to disown anyone who didn’t see the title of this section of my round-up coming. Anyhow, Shakespeare always looms large for me in my theatrical misadventures, and this year I managed to catch around 40 different productions of the Bard’s work (depending on your opinions of the authorship of Double Falsehood and Cardenio). So to make life easier for myself, I decided to (mostly) separate the Shakespeare out from the rest of the theatre, otherwise I’d spend the rest of the next year dithering still.

Theatre Round-Up 2011: The Offies

I’ve left by far the most important part of my round-up to the end, the off stage awards. Like the rest this is full of inconsistencies, silliness and in-jokes. Ah well.

The Grand Hamlet-Off 2011 - Results

So, I’m going to kick off my theatre round up this year with the results of the Grand Hamlet-Off, as I've not written the rest of them yet.

66 Books - Bush Theatre - Part 8 (James to Revelation / 5.05pm to 7pm)