Month: August 2013
Musical Theatre
Profumo The Musical
BY
Josey De Rossi
Profumo: The Musical, produced and written by Gordon Kenny, presents the events around the 1960s Profumo Affair in which John Profumo, Minister for War in Harold Macmillan's Tory government, embarks on a scandalous love affair with young nightclub dancer, Christine Keeler.
Theatre of Realism
The Pitman Painters
BY
Josey De Rossi
The popularity of Lee Hall's The Pitman Painters is evident from its sell-out seasons at the National Theatre, on Broadway and in the West End. Arguably, such success must make Hall's play one of the past decade's most significant English dramas to engage contemporary audiences in re-looking at "class warfare" in post-WW2 British culture.
