WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: National Theatre (Olivier)
WHEN: 26/5, press night 30/5, runs to 11/8/18
RUN TIME: 2 hours 35 minutes (including interval)
Brian Friel’s 1980 masterpiece Translations is set in Ireland in 1833 and is about the power of language as the English seek to map the country so they can better tax its people.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Southwark Playhouse
WHEN: 25/5/18, press night 29/5, runs to 23/6/18
RUN TIME: 2 hours and 20 minutes (with interval)
Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera starred in the original Broadway production of this Kander and Ebb (Chicago and Cabaret) musical and we wonder whether they had as much fun with it as Caroline O’Connor and Gemma Sutton do here.
Catch the world premiere of the season 2 finale of HBO’s superior sci-fi series about a theme park peopled by robots who revolt starring Thandie Newton (pictured) and a Q&A with its creators at the BFI on London’s South Bank 19/6. Tickets
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Trafalgar Studios 2
WHEN: 17/5 (matinee), press night 17/5, runs to 9/6/18
A grandmother, a mother and her daughter meet in a hotel suite the night before one of them is to be married for an evening of alcohol and home truths.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 15/5/18
RELEASED IN THE UK: 25/5/18
‘I’m so fed up with the division between young and old in society,’ explains Sheila Hancock in a Q&A after a preview screening of her new film about a widow who befriends a guide many years her junior as she attempts to climb a Scottish mountain.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
RELEASED IN THE UK: 2/5/18
Each is a Dame, they are all in their ninth decades and have met regularly at Joan Plowright’s countryside retreat since they got to know each other many years ago.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Menier Chocolate Factory
WHEN: 14/5/18, press night 22/5, runs to 7/7/18
Four job applicants arrive for an interview for a top management position in a big company and find the selection procedure will be an unconventional series of mind games.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Palace Theatre
WHEN: 9/5/18, booking to 7/4/19
We count ourselves as lucky to have been invited to see this double bill and attribute that to our ATG membership.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
UK RELEASE: 6/4/18
Hard to believe perhaps that Love, Simon is the 1st film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on a gay teenage romance.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Southbank Centre
WHEN?: 10/5/18, booking to 29/7/18
STOP PRESS: Super Troupers arrives at The 02 6/12/19 to 31/8/20 Tickets
Did you ever see ABBA live? Probably not because, as we learn here, they remained in Sweden for all but three months of the 10 years they were at their most popular.
