Tag: Elizabeth McGovern

Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies, Hampstead Theatre, 30 June 2001

Just in case a triple bill at The Royal Court Theatre the night before wasn’t enough theatre for us…

Mountain Language & Ashes To Ashes by Harold Pinter, & Alive From Palestine by Al Kasaba Theatre Group, Royal Court Theatre, 29 June 2001

…and just in case having several dinners with friends, including Brendan and Fi the week before wasn’t sufficient…

Several Midweek Evenings Out In Late June 2001

…we ran into Brendan and Fi when we went to see Dinner With Friends at the Hampstead.

This was still the old Portakabin Hampstead Theatre of course and I remember Brendan and Fi being a bit surprised by its shabbyness.

This play was quite amusing, I seem to recall, in a quintessentially Hampstead Theatre, middle-class comedy way.

Patrick Marmion in The Standard gave it a good review:

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Our friend, Michael Billington, was not quite so sure:

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Susannah Clapp in the Observer mostly hated it. Oh well.

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Three Days Of Rain by Richard Greenberg, Donmar Warehouse, 13 November 1999

After a hat trick of theatre visiting evenings during a short break period at the end of October…

Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally, Pleasance Theatre, 29 October 1999

…nada for a couple of weeks. We went to Kim & Mickey for dinner on Saturday 30 October, but then seemed to lie low socially and culturally for a fortnight. Janie’s diary suggests that she was working full pelt. Mine suggests that I was on a major report writing deadline or two, as I saw few clients and blocked out several half days and whole days for writing.

Then we went to the Donmar Warehouse to see this beauty of a play/production, which we both rated as:

Very good.

Great cast: Colin Firth, Elizabeth McGovern & David Morrissey. Directed by Robin Lefevre.

It had enjoyed a short run at the Donmar earlier in the year; we caught its autumn return. Janie booked it, so her diary reports that we sat in seats A24 & A25 and that she parted company with £48 in total. Thems was the days!

Nicholas de Jongh in The Standard shared our liking for this play/production:

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David Benedict in the Independent was less sure:

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Charles Spencer in The Telegraph really liked it:

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Lynn Gardiner loved it in the Guardian:

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