Gary Naylor

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County cricket: Lancashire, Sussex and Somerset lead way in T20 Blast

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Gary Naylor

Ball one: a blast of vitalityWhen the Nationwide Building Society sponsored the three tiers below the Premier League from 1996 to 2004, research showed strong name recognition from football fans. However, further research showed that people believed “nationwide” referred to the fact that the clubs were drawn from all over the country and were unaware of the provider of loans to the bright-eyed twentysomethings still 10 years away from hearing the dreaded phrase “credit crunch”.
Review: CUL-DE-SAC, Omnibus Theatre

1 week ago | broadwayworld.com | Gary Naylor

I grew up in a cul-de-sac. Backing on to a high rise estate one way and the docks the other, it wasn’t quite the middle class enclave of David Shopland’s play, but my parents lived all their adult lives there because, once you’re in - physically, socially, psychologically - it takes a three point turn (at least) to get out. That’s playing on thirtysomething, Ruth’s, mind.
This is My Family, Southwark Playhouse - London debut of 2013 Sheffield hit is feeling its age

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Gary Naylor

MOR. Twee. Unashamedly crowdpleasing. Are such descriptors indicative of a tedious night in the stalls? For your reviewer, who has become jaded very quickly with a myriad of searing examinations of mental health crises and wake up calls about the forthcoming environmental collapse, I often find comfort in material more suited to the large print section of the library.
The Frogs, Southwark Playhouse review - great songs save updated Aristophanes' comedy

1 week ago | theartsdesk.com | Gary Naylor

As a regular theatregoer, you learn pretty quickly that there’s no story too bizarre to work as a musical. Cannibalistic murders in Victorian London? Faking a miracle in smalltown USA? The westernisation of Japan? And that’s just Sondheim… Aristophanes gets an MT makeover in South London. The Frogs, his comedy telling the tale of Dionysos’ journey to Hades, was freely adapted by Burt Shevelove 50 years ago and supplemented by Nathan Lane with, crucially, songs by Stephen Sondheim.
County cricket: Nottinghamshire flying in Division One at the break

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Gary Naylor

Ball one: Pennington cashes inNottinghamshire bounced back from last week’s defeat to go into the T20 Blast break with a handy 10-point lead at the top of the County Championship. Yorkshire, enduring a tricky return to the top flight, were their victims, the leaders simply too strong at Headingley.
County cricket talking points: Notts stay top but Surrey are on the prowl

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Gary Naylor

Ball one: HH gets KO’dAt the end of day one, Haseeb Hameed had carried his bat for 206, his team had posted more than 400 and Nottinghamshire’s position at the top of Division One was secure. At the end of day four, all of that was still true but quite a lot had happened in-between. James Minto, Durham’s 17-year-old left-arm seamer with a grand total of 40 runs in his previous four first-class matches, took guard for the first time this season and made 67 as a nightwatching opener.
Review: THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, Chichester Festival Theatre

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Gary Naylor

Harold Fry’s life is going nowhere, so he decides to get up and go somewhere. That somewhere is Berwick-upon-Tweed, an unlikely destination since: (a) he’s on foot, without even a water bottle for hydration, never mind his mobile; (b) he's retired and drives everywhere; and (c) he lives in South Devon, at a distance that might give The Proclaimers pause. It’s not his only destination though - he’s revisiting his troubled past and, dare I say it, en route to finding his very soul.
Review: HOUSE OF GAMES, Hampstead Theatre

3 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Gary Naylor

In 1987, David Mamet's House of Games intrigued us in the cinema. Sure we’d seen The Sting, but few had read the 1940 book, The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man, the televised and online poker boom was still a decade or so in the future and the BBC’s The Real Hustle wasn’t even a twinkle in Alexis Conran's eye.
County cricket talking points: Notts soar higher as Lancashire sink lower

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Gary Naylor

Ball one: Hutton and Haynes bring happinessA second consecutive win – a 366-run evisceration of Hampshire – lifted Nottinghamshire 12 points clear at the top of Division One. Haseeb Hameed’s team are clearly the outstanding team in the Championship with more than a third of the season already gone. Playing only his 10th first class match, Freddie McCann, who started the campaign as a teenager, was last man out for 138, his third career century.
Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Omnibus Theatre

4 weeks ago | broadwayworld.com | Gary Naylor

Is it the West Country accents? Is it the isolation of rural lives - towns, villages, roads entirely unknown to us cosmopolitans? Is it the vague sense that we hover in a liminal space, both more attached to the soil of England, but also offering glimpses of a ghostly world, death’s dark vale thinly shrouded by the mists above the ponds.