So shall we all start going to the Theatre? We have
a book club here at H2G2 now, why now a Theatre Goers
Guild. We can advise each other what to see / what not to
see - and produce collaborative entries on what we all
go to see.

Below are a few details of a few current plays - feel
free to add details if you have them, and to open
conversations bellow discussing the play, and the
performance you saw.

If anyone wants to be added to the theatre guild (or
removed from it) apply for membership here:

Smoking with Lulu by Janet Munsil

Louise Brooks, Siren of the Silent movies enchanted
critic Kenneth Tynan in her role as Lulu in Pandora's
Box (1928). In 1978 Tynan visited the elderly Brooks
at her home and interviewed her for the New Yorker
profile which rehabilitated her reputation. At the
time both were suffering from emphysema through
excessive smoking which would soon kill both of them.
The play examines the meeting, the relationship they
formed, the former stars allure both as a beautiful
young woman, and as a firey and independent old woman.

At last transferring to the West End.
It begins on 13th of February and runs until the 30th
of March at the Soho Writers Theatre.
It previously showed at the West Yorkshire Playhouse
Leeds, 3rd November - 2nd December 2000 with the same cast.

Noel Coward's "Private Lives" ran until the 3rd of
March at the Albery Theatre, St Martins Lane and is now transferring to New York.

Half of two newly-wed couples find themselves honeymooning next door to their loathed previous spouses. Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan step into Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence's carpet slipper with ease, the one liners are dryer than the martinis and the play pokes a knowing finger at romance, soppy honeymoon periods and cynical relationships and well-travelled tempestuous pairings.

by Peter Nichol

A play in which a Teacher Bri and his wife Sheila, try to come to terms with the way in which their lives and their relationship has been affected by the birth of their severely handicapped daughter. A play which deals with very serious themes and sensitive topics uses comedy brilliantly to draw the audience in and make them complicit in the difficult decisions and emotions of the character's situation.

Revived at New Ambassadors Theatre and ran until the 24th of November then transferred to the Comedy Theatre December 5 2001 to Feb 9th 2002