Hounslow Guardian Leisure: Theatre previews and reviews in Hounslow, Surrey and south west London

Rosamund's role to relish

9:56am Friday 12th March 2010

The title role of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler has challenged actresses ever since the Norwegian dramatist wrote it in 1890. From the first Hedda, Clara Heese, to modern legends of the stage, including Dames Diana Rigg and Maggie Smith, plenty have had a crack at the part.

Leon's Dream diary

9:40am Thursday 11th March 2010

A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Rose has been a great success thanks in no small part to performances of theactors playing the hapless Rude Mechanicals. Leon Williams, who gives a hilarious performances as Flute, tells us how the play went from rehersal to opening night with his exclusive production diary.

Double header at Landor

5:44pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

Visitors to the Landor Theatre next week are in for a double dose of comedy fun as members of the Player-Playwrights put on back-to-back performances of two original plays, both written by Eddie Coleman.

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Winning over the Shakespeare snobs

9:00am Sunday 7th March 2010

As far as some people are concerned, Shakespeare is Shakespeare and shouldn't be messed with, but even they are being won over by Trestle Theatre and Moon Fool's re-imagining of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Learning to Relax

9:20am Saturday 6th March 2010

Croydon-born playwright Robert Farrar returns to his routes on Friday when he premieres his new gay comedy, Relax, at Warehouse Theatre. GRAHAM MOODY talks to him about the star James Holmes (from BBC sitcom Miranda), the difficulties of attracting straight people to a gay play and being grilled by Morecambe and Wise as a 15-year-old.

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Prepare to be Haunted at Richmond Theatre

2:43pm Friday 5th March 2010

Last year, Irish actor Niall Buggy jumped at the chance to star in Edna O’Brien’s Haunted alongside Brenda Blethyn in a production that received rave reviews upon its opening at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

Ayckbourn to be funny

10:05am Thursday 4th March 2010

Alan Ayckbourn has done a lot of good things for theatre and his Norman Conquests trilogy is one of his greatest achievement.

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Franks feels at Holmes as Watson

11:25am Friday 26th February 2010

Last year, Philip Franks played Dr Watson to Peter Egan’s Sherlock Holmes in a technologically ambitious touring production of The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the veteran board treaders are playing the double act in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, which opens at Richmond Theatre on Monday.

Polarbear begins spoken word season

10:58am Friday 26th February 2010

A band's third album is always the trickiest, do you stick with what has made you a success or try to shake things up with a new approach? Spoken word artist Polarbear has taken a chance and gone with the latter.

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