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PATRICK MARMION: French whimsy is a Marmite phenomenon. Either you find the Gallic caprice of films such as Amelie utterly charming - or totally exasperating.
Ralph Fiennes reaches for the eternal on stage at Theatre Royal Bath Credit: Matt Humphrey It’s almost 30 years since Ralph Fiennes came to international prominence by portraying, with devilish good looks and chilling savagery, the concentration-camp commandant Amon Göth in Schindler’s List (1993). Many films, much stage-work and consistent acclaim followed; the most recent triumph was Netflix’s The Dig. Now here he stands, alone on stage at Theatre Royal Bath, in a solo rendition of TS Eliot’s poetic sequence Four Quartets, a painstaking excavation of the human condition. It’s a s...
THE four poems that comprise Four Quartets were the writer T S Eliot’s last great achievement as a poet and he himself regarded the work as his…
© Matt Humphrey Mid last year producer David Pugh tweeted out that one good way of ensuring regional theatres survived the pandemic was for star actors to commit to touring the regions. It appears that Ralph Fiennes heeded the memo, it's been a long while since an actor of his ilk has taken to the road, opening his one-man recital of TS Elliot's Four Quartets in Bath before touring the country. It is undeniably a good thing for the regions which have taken a battering and one worth getting to, especially if you can obtain a seat up close. What makes the evening worthwhile is being able to s...
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