We’ll meet again
WITH all theatres closed, one has to live off past memories and future hopes, so this week I decided to look both backwards and forwards. It now seems incredible, but, in early December, I had three successive nights at the theatre that I’m happy to record, especially as two of the shows may return. I will also anticipate some of the productions scheduled for 2021.
The first of my December nights was also one of the best of the year: Sir Nicholas Hytner’s production of at the Bridge Theatre. A cynical friend asked why London needed yet another version of Dickens’s timeless fable when the Old Vic, partly because the focus was on narrative and acting and partly because one of the trio was the incomparable Sir Simon Russell Beale.
