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The Score

These are the productions I have seen in the theatre of late. Those in square brackets I saw in the cinema in HD.

2019
One Night in Miami… (Bristol Old Vic)
[Small Island (Olivier)]
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Globe)
Let It Be (Bath Theatre Royal) (again)
[Faust (ROH)]
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
The Lady Vanishes (Bath Theatre Royal)
Richard Alston Dance Company (Bath Theatre Royal)

2018
[The King and I (London Palladium)]
[The Nutcracker (ROH)]
Macbeth (Bath Theatre Royal)
Rambert: Ghost Dances &c (Bath Theatre Royal)
Eyam (Globe)
The Height of the Storm (Bath Theatre Royal)
Antony and Cleopatra (Olivier)
Othello (Globe)
The Winter’s Tale (Globe)
Get Well Soon (Mikron)
The Elephant Man (Bristol Old Vic)
Nanjing (Sam Wanamaker)
Iolanthe (Bath Theatre Royal)
A Monster Calls (Bristol Old Vic)
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Globe)
The Taming of the Shrew (Globe)
Hofesh Shechter’s Show (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Mary Stuart (Bath Theatre Royal)
Agnes Colander (Ustinov)
The Captive Queen [Aureng-zebe] (Sam Wanamaker)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Rondo)
[Tosca (ROH)]
The Lynching (Arc, Bristol)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
The Little Matchgirl and Other Happier Tales
xx(Bristol Old Vic)

2017
The Open House (Ustinov)
A Judgement in Stone (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Kite Runner (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Seagull (Lyric)
Jane Eyre (Lyttelton) (again)
Much Ado about Nothing (Globe)
King Lear (Globe)
Boudica (Globe)
North by Northwest (Bath Theatre Royal) (again!)
The Business of Murder (Little Theatre, Sheringham)
North by Northwest (Bath Theatre Royal)
Two new plays (Ustinov)
In at the Deep End (Mikron)
Salomé (Olivier)
Richard III (Rose, Southwark)
Racing Demon (Bath Theatre Royal)
Nell Gwynn (Globe)
The Winter’s Tale (Bristol Old Vic)
Pygmalion (Bath Theatre Royal)
What the Butler Saw (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Wipers Times (Arts)
[Hedda Gabler (Olivier)]
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures (Bath Theatre Royal)
Pride and Prejudice (Bath Theatre Royal)
[No Man’s Land (Lyttelton)]
[The Tempest (RSC)]

2016
One Night in Miami… (Donmar)
Imogen [Cymbeline] (Globe)
The Merchant of Venice (Globe)
The Shakespeare Revue (Bath Theatre Royal)
The River (Mission)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
Pure: The business of chocolate (Mikron)
Macbeth (Globe)
While the Sun Shines (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Faith Healer (Donmar)
The Taming of the Shrew (Globe)
Elegy (Donmar)
King Lear (Bath Theatre Royal)
Let It Be (Bath Theatre Royal)
Battlefield (Young Vic)
As You Like It (Olivier)
Lord of the Flies (Bath Theatre Royal)
Jane Eyre (Lyttelton)

2015
[The Winter’s Tale (Garrick)]
King Charles III (Bath Theatre Royal)
Rambert: The Three Dancers &c (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
xx(Bath Theatre Royal)
The Wars of the Roses (Rose, Kingston)
Bad Jews (Bath Theatre Royal)
1984 (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Beaux’ Stratagem (Olivier)
East is East (Bath Theatre Royal)
The Oresteia (Globe)
Macbeth (Globe) – in Cantonese
Talking Heads (Bath Theatre Royal)
Richard II (Globe)
Richard III (Globe) – in Mandarin
She Stoops to Conquer (Bath Theatre Royal)
Inala: a Zulu Ballet (Sadler’s Wells)
Oresteia (Almeida)
The Father (Bath Theatre Royal)
Paco Peña’s Flamencura (Sadler’s Wells)
The Mother (Ustinov)
Temple (Donmar)
King John (Globe)
As You Like It (Globe)
The Merchant of Venice (Globe)
[The Pirates of Penzance (ENO)]
This Last Tempest (Bristol Old Vic)
The Absence of War (Bath Theatre Royal)
Man and Superman (Lyttelton)
Birdsong (Bristol Old Vic)
The Frogs (Rondo)
Treasure Island (Olivier)
[Hamlet (Royal Exchange)]
Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Olivier)
Othello (Lyric)

2014
[The Crucible (Old Vic)]
Sweet Bird of Youth (Mission)
Walaa (St Martin-in-the-Fields)
The Massacre at Paris (Rose, Southwark)
[A Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic)]
Ballyturk (Lyttelton)
Land of My Fathers (Trafalgar Studios)
Medea (Olivier)
The Comedy of Errors (Globe)
Macbeth (Rift)
Titus Andronicus (Globe)
King Lear (Olivier)
Antony and Cleopatra (Globe)
The Last Days of Troy (Globe)
[Benvenuto Cellini (ENO)]
Fathers and Sons (Donmar)
[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
xx(Cottesloe)]
An August Bank Holiday Lark (Watford Palace)
The Play that Goes Wrong (Rose, Kingston)
The Testament of Mary (Barbican)
Privacy (Donmar)
Handbagged (Vaudeville)
The Merchant of Venice (Globe)
La Boheme (RAH)
Red Velvet (Tricycle)
[Coriolanus (Donmar)]
Happy Days (Young Vic)
The Light Princess (Lyttelton)

2013
Ghosts (Trafalgar)
[Parsifal (ROH)]
Emil and the Detectives (Olivier)
The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales)
Jerusalem (Riverside)
Satyagraha (ENO) (again)
Ghosts (Watford Palace)
Mansfield Park (Rose, Kingston)
Edward II (Olivier) (again)
Liola (Lyttelton)
Grounded (Gate)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Duchess)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
Henry VI Part 3 (Globe)
Henry VI Part 2 (Globe)
Henry VI Part 1 (Globe)
The Secret Agent (Young Vic)
Edward II (Olivier)
Macbeth (Globe)
Parsifal (Proms)
Strange Interlude (Lyttelton}
Gabriel (Globe)
Indian Tempest (Globe)
Götterdammerung (Proms)
[Macbeth (Manchester International Festival)]
Children of the Sun (Lyttelton)
The Amen Corner (Olivier)
The Drowned Man
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
The Alchemist (Rose, Southwark)
The Tempest (Globe)
[The Audience (Lyttelton)]
[This House (Olivier)]
As You Like It (Globe) – in Georgian (again)
Venus and Adonis (Globe)
Twelfth Night (Rose, Kingston)
Rutherford and Sons (Rose, Kingston)
Mies Julie (Riverside)
[Parsifal (Met)]
[Eugene Onegin (ROH)]
Metamorphosis (Lyric)
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty (Sadler’s Wells)
The Master and Margarita (Barbican)

2012
Julius Caesar (Donmar)
The Arabian Nights (Tricycle)
Much Ado about Nothing (Lamda)
Paco Peña Flamenco (Sadler’s Wells)
Pilgrim’s Progress (ENO)
Damned by Despair (Olivier)
Desire Under the Elms (Lyric)
Tosca (King’s Head)
Twelfth Night (Globe)
Some Like It Hip Hop (again)
Julius Caesar (RSC)
London Road (Olivier)
Timon of Athens (Olivier)
Henry V (Globe)
A Doll’s House (Young Vic)
Richard III (Globe)
One Turbulent Ambassador (Lyric)
Dr Dee (ENO)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
xx(Kensington big top)
The Taming of the Shrew (Globe)
Travelling Light (Lyttelton)
The Comedy of Errors (Globe2Globe) – in Persian
The Merchant of Venice (Globe2Globe) – in Hebrew
Henry VIII (Globe2Globe) – in Spanish
The Taming of the Shrew (Globe2Globe) – in Urdu
Antony and Cleopatra (Globe2Globe) – in Turkish
Antigone (Olivier)
The Winter’s Tale (Globe2Globe) – in Yoruba
The Flying Dutchman (ENO)
All’s Well that Ends Well (Globe2Globe) – in Gujarati
Coriolanus (Globe2Globe) – in Japanese
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe2Globe) – in BSL
As You Like It (Globe2Globe) – in Georgian
Romeo and Juliet (Globe2Globe) – in Portuguese
King Lear (Globe2Globe) – in Belorussian
Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (Cottesloe)
King John (Globe2Globe) – in Armenian
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Globe2Globe) – in Spanish
Henry VI Part 3 (Globe2Globe) – in Macedonian
Henry VI Part 2 (Globe2Globe) – in Albanian
Henry VI Part 1 (Globe2Globe) – in Serbian
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Globe2Globe) – in Shona
The Tempest (Globe2Globe) – in Bangla
Macbeth (Globe2Globe) – in Polish
Othello (Globe2Globe) – in rap
Twelfth Night (Globe2Globe) – in Hindi
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Globe2Globe) – in Swahili
Pericles (Globe2Globe) – in Greek
Troilus and Cressida (Globe2Globe) – in Maori
Measure for Measure (Globe2Globe) – in Russian
She Stoops to Conquer (Olivier)
The Bomb: First & Second Blasts (Tricycle)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lyric)
The Comedy of Errors (Olivier)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
The Death of Klinghoffer (ENO)
The Tales of Hoffmann (ENO)
The House of Bernarda Alba (Almeida)
The Merchant of Venice (Rose, Bankside)
Scaramouche Jones (Pleasance)
Lovesong (Lyric)
Jerusalem (Apollo)
Hamlet (Young Vic)
The Animals and Children Took to the Streets (Cottesloe)

2011
Driving Miss Daisy (Wyndham’s)
The Veil (Lyttelton)
Some Like It Hip Hop (Peacock)
13 (Olivier)
Doctor Faustus (Globe)
One Man, Two Guvnors (Lyttelton)
Much Ado About Nothing (Globe)
The Wild Bride (Lyric)
Fela! (Sadler’s Wells)
Le Cirque Invisible (QEH)
A Woman Killed with Kindness (Lyttelton)
Othello (Rose, Bankside)
Emperor and Galilean (Olivier)
London Road (Cottesloe)
Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother (again)
Simon Boccanegra (ENO)
6,000 Miles Away (Sadler’s Wells)
Into Thy Hands (Wilton’s)
The Cherry Orchard (Olivier)
Hamlet (Rose, Kingston)
Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic)
Dunas (Sadler’s Wells)
Greenland (Lyttelton)
Parsifal (ENO)
Mogadishu (Lyric)
Twelfth Night (Cottesloe)
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena (Sadler’s Wells)
The Heretic (Royal Court)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales (Lyric)

2010
Matthew Bourne’s Cindarella (Sadler’s Wells)
Blood and Gifts (Lyttelton)
Bale de Rua (Sadler’s Wells)
Blasted (Lyric)
Hamlet ((Olivier)
Faust (Young Vic)
Bedlam (Globe)
Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Globe)
Henry VIII (Globe)
Welcome to Thebes (Olivier)
Danton’s Death (Olivier)
Anne Boleyn (Globe)
Romeo and Juliet (Rose)
Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother (Sadler’s Wells)
Women Beware Women (Lyttelton?)
Elektra (Young Vic)
Richard Alston Dance Company (Place)
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Young Vic)
Macbeth (Globe)
The Canterbury Tales (Rose, Kingston)
The White Guard (Lyttelton)
A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky (Lyric)
Twelfth Night (Tricycle)
Hair (Gielgud)
11 and 12 (Rose, Kingston)
Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna (Sadler’s Wells)
Measure for Measure (Almeida)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rose, Kingston)
Nation (Olivier)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
An Inspector Calls (Wyndham’s)
I Am Yusuf and This is My Brother (Young Vic)
Three Sisters (Lyric)
Annie Get Your Gun (Young Vic)

2009
Mixed Up North (Wilton’s)
Carlos Acosta and Guests (Sadler’s Wells)
Origin of the Species (Arcola)
Mr Darwin’s Tree (Westminster Abbey!)
Cirkus Cirkor (Peacock)
Comedians (Lyric)
Mother Courage (Olivier)
As You Like It (Globe)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe)
A New World (Globe)
Paco Peña’s Flamenco sin Fronteras (Sadler’s Wells)
The Mountaintop (Trafalgar)
Helen (Globe)
Troilus and Cressida (Globe)
Time and the Conways (Lyttelton)
Macbeth: Who Is That Bloodied Man? (National)
Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (Sadler’s Wells)
Sidi Larbi & Antony Gormley’s Sutra (Sadler’s Wells)
All’s Well that Ends Well (Olivier)
Richard Alston Dance Company (Place)
Death and the King’s Horseman (again)
The Great Game (Tricycle)
Wuthering Heights (Lyric)
Othello (Rose, Kingston)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (Cottesloe)
England People Very Nice (Olivier)
The Overcoat (again)
Death and the King’s Horseman (Olivier)
The Overcoat (Lyric)
Ballet Flamenco Eva Yerbabuena (Sadler’s Wells)
King Lear (Young Vic)
Doctor Atomic (ENO)
Kafka’s Monkey (Young Vic)
Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea (Theatro Technis)
Spring Awakening (Lyric)
The Magic Flute (ENO)
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (Olivier)
Traces (Peacock)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled

2008
Amazonia (Young Vic)
Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands (Sadler’s Wells)
Othello (Lyric)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Rose, Kingston)
Oedipus [Rex] (Olivier)
War Horse (again)
Spyski (Lyric)
The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Sadler’s Wells)
The Burial at Thebes (Globe)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Globe)
Timon of Athens (Globe)
La Machine in Liverpool
Her Naked Skin (Olivier)
The Threepenny Ring Cycle (National)
King Lear (Globe)
West Side Story (Wells?)
The Revenger’s Tragedy (Olivier)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe)
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras (Sadler’s Wells)
The Good Soul of Szechuan (Young Vic)
Troilus and Cressida (Barbican)
Major Barbara (Olivier)
Never So Good (Olivier)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric)
Scottish Dance Company (Place)
An English Tragedy (Watford)
Tavaziva Dance (Place)
Motherland (Young Vic)
Women of Troy (Lyttelton)
The Arab and the Jew (Lyric)
Metamorphosis (Lyric)
A Christmas Carol (Young Vic)
The Magic Flute (Young Vic)

2007
Much Ado about Nothing (Olivier)
Present Laughter (Lyttelton)
The Sacrifice (Sadler’s Wells)
The 39 Steps (Criterion)
The Lady of Burma (Riverside)
Rough Crossings (again)
War Horse (Olivier)
The Investigation (Young Vic)
Casanova (Lyric)
The Country Wife (Haymarket)
Rough Crossings (Lyric)
Holding Fire (Globe)
The Merchant of Venice (Globe)
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Globe)
Paco Peña’s Requiem for the Earth (Festival Hall)
The Bacchae (Lyric)
The Emperor Jones (Olivier)
The Hothouse (Lyttelton)
Saint Joan (Olivier)
Romeo and Juliet (Dulwich Park)
Rafta, Rafta (Lyttelton)
Othello (Globe)
Matthew Bourne’s Car Man (Sadler’s Wells)
The Rose Tattoo (Olivier)
A Matter of Life and Death (Olivier)
Cymbeline (Barbican)
Vernon God Little (Young Vic)
The Entertainer (Old Vic)
Mahabharata (Sadler’s Wells)
Satyagraha (ENO)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Roundhouse)
Hofesh Shechter’s Uprising (Place)
Equus (Gielgud)
The Taming of the Shrew (Wilton’s)
Lumanox (Broad Street, Oxford)
Jump (Peacock)
The Tempest (Novello)
Sadler’s Wells Sampled
The Enchanted Pig (Young Vic)
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (Sadler’s Wells)

2006
The Gondoliers (ENO)
Yippeee!!! (Sadler’s Wells)
Rambert Dance Company (Sadler’s Wells)
The Life of Galileo (Olivier)
THe Alchemist (Olivier)


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