The Review - THEATRE-Simon Wroe Published: 15 November 2007
In The Wings
THE civilised pursuits of the chattering classes and the cultural identity of the English get a gentle, witty lampoon in the Tower Theatre Company’s The Old Country at Theatro Technis this week. Alan Bennett, the play’s celebrated author, has even provided some useful stage directions for this special production, running until Sat November 17.
Tickets are available from the Tower Theatre Box office on 020 7353 1700.
UNWILLINGLY forced to adopt a child, a servant girl grows to love and protect him from the dangers of war, only to be asked to give him up.
The Hampstead Players will perform Bertholt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle – an updated version of an old Chinese story at once touching, funny and politically challenging – at the Hampstead Parish Church in Church Row
from Thursday November 22 until Saturday 24.
A GIRL from Ipanema falls for a Favela poet in 1960s Brazil in the bossa nova love story Poor Little Rich Girl, playing at the Etcetera Theatre.
Expect lashings of hip-swaying music and Latin passion.
Tickets can be booked in advance on 020 7482 4857.
NOEL Coward makes a posthumous return to the world of entertainment for one night only, when Anthony Hawgood brings him back to life at the Primrose Hill Community Centre on Sunday, November 18.
The 7pm show features songs and anecdotes relating to the great man, and guests are encouraged to dress to impress in the garb of the Coward years.