At 73 years old, Humphries is in remarkably good form. While Sir Les and Sandy Stone are still fresh, Dame Edna lacks some of the satirical bite and depth of character that made her a megastar.
In Berlin, on May 4, 1945, these boys are awakening to the fact that
the game they were engaged in just a few weeks ago, which lends the
play its title, is being played-out for real, in the streets above
their manhole.
The creation of expat Swedish actress Danijela Hodges, Thore House
is set in an erotic nightclub and tells the interwoven stories of
several of its denizens.
While there’s more than a smattering of sparkling one-liners, too many
are laboured and teetering on cliché. The references to the musical
whose name the play parodies are scant and practically pointless.
Howard Brenton’s play Paul is the extraordinary story of St Paul, whose faith and fanatical commitment, in the playwright’s view, was as important in establishing the Christian religion as Christ himself.
City for Sale
is a slick modern comedy based not so much on an Orwellian ‘Brave New
World’ as a Swifter version of a past one, back to the future of
feudalism.
