Category: Theatre

Posted in John Logan Penny Dreadful TV

TV Review: Penny Dreadful Season 2

“We are bound on a wheel on pain” The first series of Penny Dreadful may not have…

Posted in Jack Thorne TV

TV Review: War Book

“We’re here to outplay a scenario” I can’t remember who alerted me to Jack Thorne’s War Book…

Posted in Film James Graham

Film Review: X+Y (2014)

“When somebody says they love you, it means they see something in you they think is worth…

Posted in Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove Simon Stephens Theatre Young Vic

Review: Song from Far Away, Young Vic

“We exist in the gaps between the sounds that we make” It’s hard not to be seduced by…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: As You Like It, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Though I look old…I am strong and lusty” From the minute Michelle Terry’s Rosalind launches into an…

Posted in Ancient Greeks Rory Mullarkey Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: The Oresteia, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Why must we go over and over the woes of the past?” There’s something a little unfortunate about…

Posted in Richmond Theatre Terence Rattigan Theatre

Review: Flare Path, Richmond Theatre

“Supposing there is an ‘after the war’” One of the unexpected highlights in the raft of productions…

Posted in David Hare TV

DVD Review: Turks and Caicos

“Whatever happened to the idea of shame?” Part 2 of David Hare’s Johnny Worricker trilogy, Turks and…

Posted in Park Theatre Theatre

Review: Hatched ‘n’ Dispatched, Park Theatre

“Who threw all the pickles down the stairs?” They say write about what you know but when…