Category: Theatre

Posted in Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Digital Theatre

Review: The Odyssey, Almeida/Live-stream

  “I’m stunned with wonder” When Rupert Goold first announced the #AlmeidaGreeks season with all its familiar…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Vampire Hospital Waiting Room, Above the Arts

“Do you want to know what Old Kent Road smells like?” Beach Comet’s Edinburgh hit Vampire Hospital…

Posted in Orange Tree Theatre Terence Rattigan Theatre

Review: French Without Tears, Orange Tree Theatre

“If I’m left alone with her for a minute, I shudder to think what might happen” You…

Posted in Harley Granville Barker National Theatre Theatre

Review: Waste, National Theatre

“The stateman’s task is the accommodation of stubborn facts to shifting circumstance and in effect to the…

Posted in Kiln Theatre Molière Theatre

Review: A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Tricycle Theatre

“A thick, golden-brown, brickhouse goddess of voluptuous lusciousness” Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand was…

Posted in Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East

Review: Anita and Me, Theatre Royal Stratford East

“Now here’s a little story To tell it is a must” One gets the feeling that had…

Posted in David Hare TV

DVD Review: Salting the Battlefield

“It’s not a question of how it is, it’s a question of how it appears” Salting the…

Posted in Film Mark Gatiss

DVD Review: Agatha Christie – A Life In Pictures

“There was a motivation…”  This is a curious thing – a drama-documentary of legendary mystery writer Agatha…

Posted in Film Lucinda Coxon

Film Review: The Heart of Me (2002)

“And throughout all Eternity I forgive you, you forgive me” For me, there’s a serious problem that…