Catrin Rogers's Blog – December 2011 Archive (2)

Is pure comedy worth less than high art?

I finally saw One Man, Two Guvnors on the weekend, and laughed every bit as I'd been warned I would. The relentless slapstick, bawdy humour and asides to the audience - at once old-fashioned in form but sharp and unexpected in delivery - make the production, as Michael Billington wrote in…

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Added by Catrin Rogers on December 12, 2011 at 1:02 — 3 Comments

The best theatre of 2011 - how was it for you?

Great to read Susannah Clapp's feature in yesterday's Observer on The Best Theatre of 2011, which started by saying:

"The Passion was the year's revelation. Ranging over the whole of Port Talbot, bringing people out in droves, rousing them to cheers and reducing them to tears,…

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Added by Catrin Rogers on December 12, 2011 at 0:34 — 1 Comment

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