Curtains!

So it's the final week of my big adventure in London and time for another wrap-up of what I've seen since 16 November.

The Glass Menagerie - Young Vic

The Robbers - New Diorama Theatre

Criterion Theatre

Novecento - Trafalgar 2

Billy Elliot - Victoria Palace Theatre

Romeo and Juliet - The Roundhouse

Che Walker Double Bill - Riverside Studios

Wicked! - Apollo Victoria

Les Miserables – Queen theatre

An Ideal Husband – Vaudeville Theatre

Zack - Royal Exchange, Manchester

Kaspar – Southwark Playhouse (Arch 6)

War Horse – New London Theatre

Safe – Oval House

Mary Stuart (reading) – Waterloo East Theatre

The Opinion Makers (reading) – Prince of Wales Theatre

Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl – Barbican, Pitt

Midsummer – Tricycle Theatre

The Comedy Theatre

Stop. Rewind (reading) – Camden Arms

A Drop to Drink – Soho Theatre Studio

Antonioni Project – Barbican

39 Steps – Criterion Theatre

Landscape and Monologue (Pinter) – Ustinov, Bath

Clybourne Park - Wyndham's Theatre

The Children's Hour - The Comedy Theatre

Beachy Head - Jacksons Lane

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (open dress) - Curve, Leicester

The Curve Theatre, Leicester

and for the week ahead:

The Heretic - Royal Court

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot - LAMDA

Fatherland - Gate

Great Expectations - Watford Palace Theatre

Yes, I was pretty impressed with myself too... until I came to the shocking realisation (too late) that, as many keen-eyed readers would have already spotted, after six months in London I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE NATIONAL THEATRE!!

And I bet 'What did you see at the National?' will be the first question I'm asked too. 

However, I suppose in a way that's the good news for the theatre scene in the UK isn't it? That a girl can spend six months in the country in a theatre-going frenzy but never get around to visiting the country's National Theatre?

Now I should just clarify, it's not like I avoided the National. Last week I attended a 'Talking Shakespeare' question and answer session with Simon Callow, Charles Edwards and Finty Williams in the Cottesloe Theatre in the National Theatre building... and I've visited the bookshop twice! (What makes it even more shocking though is that it is literally a 10 minute walk from where I'm working but we'll just keep that to ourselves without splashing it about in any public forums, OK?). OK.

Theatre Royal, Bath (currently with a tour of Avenue Q!)