John Irving Wardle (20 July 1929 – 23 February 2023) was an English theatre critic and author. He wrote about theatre for The Observer from 1959 to 1963...

G. Wodehouse. The term comedy of menace, which British drama critic Irving Wardle based on the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace (1958)...

derangement." Writing for The Times later that year, the theatre critic Irving Wardle described Hordern's Lear as a "sharp, peremptory pedant; more a law-giver...

The Times, Liola, Bloomsbury Theatre, Irving Wardle, 28th July 1982.https://archive.org/details/IrwingWardleTheTimesReviewOfLiola28July1982 [1] IMDB...

Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1996), p. 607. Irving Wardle, The Times, 19 February 1981. Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame: The Life...

F. Simpson, and Harold Pinter. The term was coined by drama critic Irving Wardle, who borrowed it from the subtitle of Campton's play The Lunatic View:...

then.'... He's the most outrageously talented person I've ever met." Irving Wardle of The Independent felt that "the casting, including Michael Sheen's...

but Burton's and Taylor's performances were reviewed constructively. Irving Wardle of The Times called it "University drama at its worst" while the American...

people in different ways, but disappointment is the order of the night." Irving Wardle, writing in The Times in 1970, said: "I have seen better revues than...

Prospero in Nicholas Hyner's production of The Tempest. The critic Irving Wardle said that Wood, "lit up the text like an electric storm, and simply...

sepulchral invocations to her volcanically indignant exits, she is terrific. Irving Wardle in The Times on Mount's Madam Arcati In 1987, Mount appeared as Ursula...

Michael, the 'love child' of Chris, youngest of the sisters." Critic Irving Wardle has argued that Friel invented the modern memory play, citing Philadelphia...

of professional skill and personal disgust by McCowen", according to Irving Wardle reviewing for The Times) in the world premiere of Peter Shaffer's Equus...

Joseph Papp's version of The Pirates of Penzance; The Times critic Irving Wardle wrote Stephenson "reveals unsuspected coloratura powers as Mabel, but...

Theatre, in Bolton, which had been set up by John Wardle, father of the drama critic Irving Wardle, whose wife, Norma, became a mentor to Tierney. As...

architect Johnny Wardle (1923–1985), English cricketer John Wardle, birth name of Jah Wobble (born 1958), English bass guitarist Irving Wardle (1929–2023)...

us". There were a few lukewarm reviews, most notably from Irving Wardle of The Times. Wardle enjoyed Lloyd Webber's compositions but found the visual spectacle...

February John Motson, 77, English football commentator (BBC Sport). Irving Wardle, 93, English theatre critic and writer. 24 February – Sir Bernard Ingham...

citing Wardle. Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd, 3rd ed. With a new foreword by the author (1961; New York: Vintage [Knopf], 2004). Irving Wardle, "The...

the critics, but by the time of the next major production, in 1976, Irving Wardle of The Times considered, "Stylistically, it is Coward's masterpiece:...

Tábori, 83, Hungarian-born British architect (Whittington Estate). Irving Wardle, 93, English theatre critic and writer. James Abourezk, 92, American...

myself laughing helplessly, more often than at any time this year." Irving Wardle in the New York Times: "We have been waiting for a full-scale mock-heroic...

World portrays an Irish Catholic family's family planning problems. Irving Wardle in the Los Angeles Times in 1970 called it "comedy that is clearly rooted...

The Birthday Party has been described (some say "pigeonholed") by Irving Wardle and later critics as a "comedy of menace" and by Martin Esslin as an...

when it should swim." Reviews were mixed when Hair opened in London. Irving Wardle in The Times wrote, "Its honesty and passion give it the quality of...

with Look Back in Anger playing and a sign warning "House Full", but Irving Wardle broadly supports Richardson's account: "Amid all the noise about angry...

category for more). Category:Theatre critics Critic No Turn Unstoned Irving Wardle (1992). Theatre criticism: Theatre concepts. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-415-03181-3...

ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2 October 2019. The Theatres of George Devine by Irving Wardle, Cape 1978 ISBN 0-224-01415-3 Frank Dunlop's CV for Who's Who in the...

for a show which has failed to grow into a story.'" The Times critic Irving Wardle stated "It is not much of a story, and whatever possibilities it may...

The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace, a play by David Campton, critic Irving Wardle called Pinter's early plays "comedy of menace"—a label that people have...