Amongst Friends by April De Angelis, Hampstead Theatre, 29 May 2009

We were more than a little disappointed with this one.

We’d fallen out of love with the Hampstead Theatre during this Anthony Clark era, so hadn’t been going there as much. But this cast looked terrific and the play sounded interesting…promising more than it delivered.

Here is the OfficialLondonTheatre.co.uk stub on the play/production.

What a difference once the Ed Hall era started.

Anyway I’m sure we enjoyed our dinner at Harry Morgan’s before the show.

Tales From Hollywood by Christopher Hampton, Donmar Warehouse, 21 April 2001

We saw a preview of this production, which I gave a one word review in my log:

Excellent.

It was memorably good.

Charles Spencer in The Telegraph clearly liked it a lot:

Hollywood Spencer Telegraph Hollywood Spencer Telegraph 3 May 2001 The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

Nicholas de Jongh in The Standard also reviewed it positively:

Hollywood de Jongh Standard Hollywood de Jongh Standard 2 May 2001 Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

Our friend Michael Billington was with us (opinion-wise) on this one too:

Hollywood Billington Guardian Hollywood Billington Guardian 2 May 2001 The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com