Days Five and Six We began Day 5 with a discussion of Arthur Miller’s A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, which we had seen the night before. In some ways, it might be more accurate to say we discussed Ivo Van Hove’s A...

DAYS THREE AND FOUR On Tuesday morning, we all met again at The Swan for our first true TalkBack of Week 2. We had so much to discuss about THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME. One topic that...

This year, the London Theatre Tour has grown so popular that–for the first time–we have two separate weeks in London. Because Group Two is seeing the same plays as Group One saw last week, these entries will talk less about the plays...

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 Our final TalkBack opened with a discussion theatre architecture prompted by the exquisitely designed Hampstead Theatre in Swiss Cottage where we had seen STEVIE the previous evening. It’s a new theatre space designed by an architectural firm...

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 TalkBack opened on Friday with a departure from our usual process. Intrepid Robert Tutnauer found himself volunteered to participate in an Acting 101 exercise. So that he could work with a text that he knew, he was...

THURSDAY, MARCH 12 TalkBack Thursday morning gave us an opportunity to explore the ramifications of the re-imaging of a classic play by a visionary director, in this case A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE in the hands of Belgium born and...

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11 The TalkBack Wednesday morning gave us a chance to compare adaptations — just as THE CURIOUS INCIDENT… was adapted by Simon Stephen from Mark Haddon’s novel, BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS was adapted from Katherine Boo’s National Book...

Tuesday opened with our first TalkBack, held as always in the upstairs lounge of The Swan and moderated by CTC Artistic Director Byam Stevens and Robert King, Professor of English at Elms College. Our topic — the National Theatre’s hit...

  CTC produced its first London Tour in 2005. That year we invited Matt Wolf, Theatre Critic for The International Herald Tribune (now The International New York Times). He so captivated us that for the succeeding ten years we have...

As we assembled in the parking lot at Elms College, catching up with our fellow travelers from previous London tours, there was the faintest hint of Spring in the air. After months of subfreezing temperatures, the mercury nudged over the...