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26 de abr. de 2018 · Theatre. This article is more than 5 years old. Review. Absolute Hell review – postwar Soho gets a Weimar makeover. Lyttelton, London. Joe Hill-Gibbins gives Rodney Ackland’s drama the full...
Absolute Hell: Directed by Anthony Page. With Judi Dench, Susan Porrett, Paul Birchard, Sylvia Barter. Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens.
26 de abr. de 2018 · Absolute Hell — an absolutely unmissable National Theatre production. Rodney Ackland’s unsparing portrait of a Soho nightclub in 1945 is given a masterly revival. Aaron Heffernan and Kate...
26 de abr. de 2018 · Absolute Hell is bold and ambitious, fascinating and provocative. It’s a living Hogarth portrait of a Blitz-ravaged London living on treble whiskies and rationed eggs and desperately trying to...
Absolute Hell, review: Sparkling production captures postwar Soho Rodney Ackland’s drama about the dissolute denizens of a nightclub caused a scandal in 1952 – and still feels fresh today
26 de abr. de 2018 · Home. Going Out. Absolute Hell review: Superb performances in a seedy Soho club ★★★★. This 50s play has lost its shock value but the National's slick production is still powerful. Nick Wells....
26 de abr. de 2018 · This version, renamed Absolute Hell, was acclaimed as a bold breakthrough; a subsequent revival in 1995 at the National Theatre, directed by Anthony Page and starring Judi Dench as the disenchanted, terrified club proprietor Christine, still brings happy tears of remembrance to the eyes of those who saw it.
