Afterplay (Gielgud Theatre)

This short, static but ecstatically well-acted new play by Brian Friel reintroduces Uncle Vanya's Sonya, and Andrey Prozorov, brother to Chekhov's Three Sisters, finding them meeting twenty years on in a café in Moscow.

As played by Penelope Wilton and John Hurt, both of them ache with loss, longing and loneliness from which they cannot rescue each other.

It's undoubtedly intriguing, having just seen a production of Uncle Vanya and therefore knowing what they call in Hollywood her 'back story', to find out what happens to her in this sequel.

Iit's been ages, however, since I last saw Three Sisters, so I wasn't so clued up on Mr Prozorov (though it was interesting to hear of his siblings still yearning for Moscow; as he's found out, it isn't all it's cracked up to be). 

Take a Thames Tour of Rotherhithe including the home of London's whaling and timber trades

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