VOICES FROM WINDRUSH at Greenwich Theatre
Controversy tends to provoke increasingly extreme reactions. But as Voices From Windrush at Greenwich Theatre showed, a more measured...
GREENWICH THEATRE
Miles Hedley
- Aug 14
- 3 min
EARLY AUTUMN WITH PREMIERES at Greenwich Theatre
Greenwich Theatre and its artistic director James Haddrell have a gift for attracting big names and high-quality work. In recent times...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 28
- 2 min
AN INTERVENTION at Greenwich Theatre
Two fine performances are at the heart of Mike Bartlett’s An Intervention at Greenwich Theatre – and they needed to be good because the...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 13
- 2 min
SUMMER SHOWS at Greenwich Theatre
Writer Mike Bartlett is just about the hottest name in theatrical circles at the moment so it’s quite a coup for Greenwich Theatre to be...
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Miles Hedley
- May 25
- 1 min
SUMMER HOLIDAYS at Greenwich Theatre
Writer Mike Bartlett is just about the hottest name in theatrical circles at the moment so it’s quite a coup for Greenwich Theatre to be...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 15
- 2 min
APRIL, MAY AND JUNE at Greenwich Theatre
Drama, comedy, music, dance and one of the world’s most adored children’s classics – there really is something for everyone at Greenwich...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 2
- 2 min
JARMAN at Greenwich Theatre
Visionary film-maker Derek Jarman became the ultimate icon of iconoclasm before his life was cruelly cut short by AIDS. Yet he packed...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 12
- 2 min
ALARMS & EXCURSIONS at Greenwich Theatre
It was a brave choice for Greenwich Theatre to take on Alarms & Excursions, Michael Frayn’s comedy about our ever-growing reliance on...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 25, 2021
- 2 min
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS at Greenwich Theatre
A real test of how good a panto is to try it out at 10 o’clock on a freezing November morning more than a month before Christmas in front...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 17, 2021
- 2 min
THE 12 DAYS (AND NIGHTS) OF CHRISTMAS in and around Greenwich
1 The Queen Of Hearts, Greenwich Theatre till 2 January. Legendary dame Andrew Pollard is back live with his own take on a traditional...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS at Greenwich Theatre
Legendary panto dame Andrew Pollard is heading to Greenwich Theatre once again for the festive season – oh, yes he is! After a year’s...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 6, 2021
- 2 min
UNKNOWN at Greenwich Theatre
How does a writer create a fury-driven polemic without seeming to batter an audience into submission? The line that separates engagement...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 28, 2021
- 0 min
TIGER LADY at Greenwich Theatre
As we arrived at Greenwich Theatre to see Tiger Lady we were greeted by the cast wandering around the auditorium offering shots,...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
AUTUMN SEASON at Greenwich Theatre
After what feels like an eternity, live performance is back at Greenwich Theatre this autumn in a season that features drama, comedy,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 27, 2021
- 2 min
BAD NIGHTS AND ODD DAYS at Greenwich Theatre
They may be 40 to 50 years old but, as a brilliant new Greenwich Theatre production of four of Caryl Churchill’s early plays reveals,...
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Miles Hedley
- May 2, 2021
- 3 min
SPRING/SUMMER SEASON at Greenwich Theatre
Live performance is back! And the highlight of Greenwich Theatre’s season is a quadruple bill of brilliant short plays by living legend...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 18, 2021
- 2 min
THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE at Greenwich Theatre online
The After-Dinner Joke, Caryl Churchill’s great satire on corporate philanthropism, may be 43 years old but shockingly, as director James...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
WINTER SEASON at Greenwich Theatre
At a time of universal lockdown gloom, Greenwich Theatre is doing its bit to raise our wilting spirits with a mainly online season of...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 30, 2020
- 2 min
THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE online with Greenwich Theatre
The Christmas lockdown forced Greenwich Theatre to close its doors days before its production of the children’s classic The Wolves Of...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2020
- 2 min
CHRISTMAS FAMILY FUN in Greenwich, Deptford and online
The entertainment sector is in crisis – but the dedicated armies of artists whose work so enriches our lives are determined to carry on...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 29, 2020
- 2 min
GREENWICH THEATRE AUTUMN SEASON
As the arts face a battle for their very survival, Greenwich Theatre has defiantly launched an autumn season of live performances to keep...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 2, 2020
- 2 min
THE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA Greenwich Theatre YouTube channel
Steven Berkoff’s play The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia could have been written for lockdown – an exchange of 39 claustrophobically...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 27, 2020
- 3 min
VOICES IN THE DARK Greenwich Theatre
Covid-19 has forced creatives across the arts to find new forms of expression. And Greenwich Theatre’s latest contribution to online...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 16, 2020
- 2 min
THE SECRET LOVE LIFE OF OPHELIA at Greenwich Theatre
Superstar actor Dame Helen Mirren is to appear in a groundbreaking new production at Greenwich Theatre this month. The 74-year-old, who...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
MACBETH at Greenwich Theatre
Apart from Hamlet, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare’s most quotable play, containing some of his finest soliloquies and packed with phrases...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 16, 2020
- 2 min
POLLY (THE HEARTBREAK OPERA) at Greenwich Theatre
It’s a brave theatrical performance that begins with the show’s narrator declaring gleefully: Theatre is dead. Such bravado could have...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
DR FAUSTUS at Greenwich Theatre
Splendid Productions lived up to their name when they brought their spellbinding version of Dr Faustus to Greenwich Theatre, ingeniously...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 11, 2019
- 1 min
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at Greenwich Theatre
Our modern idea of Christmas is almost entirely down to Charles Dickens – he’s why the iconography of the festive season remains so...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 2, 2019
- 3 min
SLEEPING BEAUTY at Greenwich Theatre
One of the reasons audiences adore Pixar films such as Toy Story is that they are child-friendly fantasies shot through with whip-smart...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
LEST WE FORGET at Greenwich Theatre
There’s a lot of really good stuff in Charlotte Green’s play Lest We Forget about the disgraceful treatment of black British troops who...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 8, 2019
- 2 min
CURTAIN’D SLEEP at Greenwich Theatre
Two Lady Macbeths, two Ophelias, a stage split into four quadrants of a circle each visible only to a quarter of the audience, the cast...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 4, 2019
- 1 min
BKLYN THE MUSICAL at Greenwich Theatre
If you love live performance, book a seat for BKLYN The Musical at Greenwich Theatre because the actors and band are as good as any I’ve...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 14, 2019
- 1 min
IN AND OUT OF CHEKHOV’S SHORTS at Greenwich Theatre
Anton Chekhov may be best known as a chronicler of tragedy but even amid the despair he will always find moments of comedy. It’s even...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
M.E.H at Greenwich Theatre
One of the great questions posed by art is this: What is real? It is the theme of The Outbound Project’s latest stagework MEH, which is...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 17, 2019
- 3 min
GREENWICH BOOK FESTIVAL at University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval College & Greenwich Theatre
This year’s Greenwich Book Festival fulfilled the basic requirement of any event designed to promote the arts – it truly offered...
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Miles Hedley
- May 19, 2019
- 2 min
SALOMÉ at Greenwich Theatre
You need to be at the top of your game to make a success of Salomé, Oscar Wilde’s challenging symbolist prose-poem about the beheading of...
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Miles Hedley
- May 12, 2019
- 2 min
THE SIGN OF FOUR at Greenwich Theatre
I thought Sherlock Holmes was dead, finally laid to rest by the definitive interpretations of Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and Benedict...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 26, 2019
- 2 min
THE LONG WALK BACK at Greenwich Theatre
We Brits love to put our sporting heroes on pedestals – but we also love to see them fall off. And few have done it quite so...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 3, 2019
- 1 min
THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE at Greenwich Theatre
Britain today finds itself horribly divided over Brexit. A century ago the country was also horribly divided - but the reason then was...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 26, 2019
- 1 min
THE SHROUD MAKER at Greenwich Theatre
The tragedy of Gaza and the West Bank is one of the most contentious issues of our times, which makes it an ideal subject for dramatists....
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
ROBINSON CRUSOE at Greenwich Theatre
What possible connection is there between Brexit, Donald Trump, dentistry, TV academic Mary Beard and Christmas? The answer – of course –...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 10, 2018
- 1 min
HERE at Greenwich Theatre
There was a lot of audience laughter during Michael Frayn’s philosophical comedy Here at Greenwich Theatre. It wasn’t the gales of...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 16, 2018
- 1 min
THE JUNGLE BOOK at Greenwich Theatre
There weren’t any of those swinging Disney songs in Greenwich Theatre’s production of The Jungle Book but that didn’t stop it being...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 1, 2018
- 1 min
EIGENGRAU at Greenwich Theatre
It’s self-evident that a great play can be ruined by a below-par cast – no doubt we all have any number of examples in our memories. But...
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Miles Hedley
- May 17, 2018
- 1 min
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at Greenwich Theatre
After the grisly horrors at the heart of Edward II and Lord Of The Flies, the decision by company-in-residence Lazarus to finish their...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
LORD OF THE FLIES at Greenwich Theatre
Ever think acting is easy? Then you should have seen the performance of Lord Of The Flies that I saw at Greenwich Theatre. The young cast...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 3, 2018
- 1 min
TRUMPAGEDDON at Greenwich Theatre
Many satirise Donald Trump but most fail because the man’s so homophobic, so mysogenistic, so racist, so paranoid and so egotistical that...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 16, 2018
- 1 min
EDWARD II at Greenwich Theatre
There was a great opening to Christopher Marlowe’s tragedy Edward II at Greenwich Theatre. To an electronica soundtrack the cast, in...
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