Frankie Bridge on her acting debut in the West End, and we discuss the many pitfalls of theatre outdoors standard.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from standard.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Royal Court’s new topical satire, Word-Play, opens with a gaffe-prone Tory prime minister giving a TV interview in which he commends Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech. The Downing Street press team suffer a meltdown as they struggle to draft an apology or a retraction. Opposition parties try to profit from the blunder and
Catalan company Kamchàtka create an enticing piece of site-specific theatre in the unlikeliest of places; a dinner party turns nasty at the Royal Court; and around the world in bloomers
In an opening sketch which could reasonably have been titled “The Thin Of It”, we meet a team of Downing Street press officers in crisis mode: the Prime Minister has once again gone off-script and ad-libbed something offensive to an unnamed section of society.