The Donmar Warehouse
The Donmar Warehouse is a 250 seat theatre in the heart of London. As well as presenting six productions a year at its home in Covent Garden, the theatre presents work nationally and internationally. Donmar productions have recieved 35 Olivier awards, 23 critic circle awards and 14 Tony awards from nine broadway productions. Past productions shown at the theatre include: 'Frost/Nixon', 'Guys and Dolls', 'The Man Who Had All The Luck', 'Piaf' and a T.S Elliot festival. Some of these have been since taken abroad to Australia and America.
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Tommy’s not a bad man, he’s getting by. Renting a run-down room in his uncle Maurice’s house, just about keeping his ex-wife and kids at arm’s length and rolling from one get-rich-quick scheme to the other with his pal Doc. Then one day he comes to the aid of Aimee, who’s not had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way she knows how.
Their past won’t let go easily. But together there’s a glimmer of hope they could make something more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps.
When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But he has enemies at home too. Famine threatens the city, the citizens’ hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people.
Josie Rourke directs Shakespeare’s searing tragedy of political manipulation and revenge, with Tom Hiddleston making his return to the Donmar in the title role.
“There’s no dark like a winter night in the country. And there was a wind like this one tonight, howling and whistling in off the sea...It was this type of night now. Am I setting the scene for you?”
In Brendan’s pub, isolated above the town, the men are gathering for their daily pint. The arrival of a stranger in their midst – a woman - spurs them to impress her with stories. They are stories of souls past and of spirits very much present. But one story is more chilling and more real than any of the men could have foreseen.
Rose Trelawny is the brightest star in the firmament of the Wells, the theatre company that raised her from birth. But she's prepared to give it all up for the love of her stage door suitor, aristocratic Arthur. His family are less convinced of her charms, however, and her joyful challenge to their dreary, snobby existence shocks them to their core.
Mimi by Lucy Ellmann, the story of a plastic surgeon falling for a flawed feminist, entertains Lucy Daniel.
Laura Miller finds that happiness is bad news for the usually furious Lucy Ellmann The rant is Lucy Ellmann's forte. Exasperated, indignant, disgusted, her narrators (first- and third-person) work themselves up into a fine fettle, spouting cascading tirades on everything from the moon landing and tea cosies to people who prefer plastic cutting boards over the wooden kind. They are all in CAPS, with many, many exclamation marks.
t’s Christmas in Manhattan and Harrison Hanafan, a plastic surgeon with a conscience, slips on the ice and sprains his ankle.
Lucy Ellmann's fans in the literary world are many and vociferous, but this is the first of her six novels that I've encountered and, to be honest, I found it a hard book to love.
