![]() It is led by a stupendous Mark Gatiss (above left), to the manner(isms) born but also deeply affecting - particularly in a scene of real emotional intimacy with a New York sex worker that is both frank and also shatteringly honest. Jack Thorne’s play is as much about process as personalities - and rivets on both counts. THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE, again at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre (where it runs to July 15, and where I saw it today), is a gorgeous backstage peek into the rehearsal rooms of a celebrated 1964 Broadway production of Hamlet that was directed by John Gielgud and starred Richard Burton in the title role. It is truly difficult to believe it isn’t for real! The show is making history in front of our astonished eyes.Īfter shepherding an expansive portrait of the founders of the Lehman Bank family to the stage of the National Theatre in THE LEHMAN TRILOGY in 2018 (now about to play its final week in its second West End run at the Gillian Lynne, where it closes tomorrow week, May 20), director Sam Mendes now hones in on another true-life moment in history, with a much more theatrical subject. I’m already making plans to see it again. ![]() ![]() Tonight I saw ABBA Voyage - and wrote about it in my column here already: ![]() ![]() Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). ![]()
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