Oh happy day! Clearly Fiona Shaw reads this blog (someone has to) and she has done the right thing and decided to spend a LOT more time on stage – so, pretty much as soon as the mighty “Mother Courage and Her Children” closes its run at the National Theatre, Ms. Shaw returns to Wilton Music Hall to perform T.S.Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, some ten years after she first performed it there, directed once again by Deborah Warner.
The unparalleled Shaw apart, the venue is a great reason to see and hear this production: London’s only surviving Victorian Music Hall, it’s a haunting and evocative place, perfectly suited to the poem – or it was when I first went there ten years ago, perhaps it has been rejuvenated and refurbished in some awful way. I doubt it.
Anyway, I am beholden to a certain “Epidaurus” for the tip on “The Waste Land”, now confirmed in the press and on-line. Do see it if you can – even Wife enjoyed it, and that’s saying something.
