Lloyd Evans

Fringe rubbish: Company Non Nova’s ‘L’Apres-Midi d’un Foehn’, a highlight of 2013

Look at my Fringe

30 July 2015 1:00 pm

Like everyone performing at the Edinburgh Fringe I’m about to make a lot of mistakes. I’m about to lose a…

Shakespeare’s duds

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

I love Shakespeare. But when he pulls on his wellies and hikes into the forest I yearn for the exit.…

Shakespeare’s duds

14 May 2015 1:00 pm

I love Shakespeare. But when he pulls on his wellies and hikes into the forest I yearn for the exit.…

Stephen Sondheim

19 March 2015 3:00 pm

I came out in a rash when I heard that Emma Thompson was to star in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd…

Stephen Sondheim

19 March 2015 3:00 pm

I came out in a rash when I heard that Emma Thompson was to star in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd…

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Edinburgh rocks

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…

Going Global

10 July 2014 1:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_July_2014_v4.mp3 Two glorious playhouses grace the south bank of the Thames. Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre stage the…

Going Global

10 July 2014 1:00 pm

Listen http://traffic.libsyn.com/spectator/TheViewFrom22_10_July_2014_v4.mp3 Two glorious playhouses grace the south bank of the Thames. Shakespeare’s Globe and the National Theatre stage the…

Hell hath no fury…

4 October 2012 3:00 am

We all know Edwina Currie as a shrill, tasteless, attention-seeking Thatcherite nuisance from Liverpool. But the private Edwina —  as…