Category: Writers

Posted in Duncan Macmillan National Theatre Theatre West End

Re-review: People, Places and Things, Wyndham’s Theatre

“I want to live vividly” There’s something rather apposite about the rush to label Denise Gough’s performance…

Posted in Arrows & Traps Brockley Jack Theatre Leo Tolstoy Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016

Review: Anna Karenina, Brockley Jack

“What happens if you can’t stop?” Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Anna Karenina really is a clever thing….

Posted in Film John Donnelly LGBTQ+

Film Review: The Pass, BFI Flare

“I’m not gay…look at me, I’m a footballer” It’s no mean feat for an LGBT Film Festival…

Posted in Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016

Review: A Raisin in the Sun, Albany Theatre

“Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He…

Posted in Martin Sherman Musicals Terry Johnson Theatre West End

Re-review: Mrs Henderson Presents, Noël Coward Theatre

“Everyone loves a bit of filth”  I really enjoyed Mrs Henderson Presents when I saw it last…

Posted in August Wilson Christopher Hampton Cyndi Lauper Duncan Macmillan Florian Zeller Howard Goodall Jessica Swale Kenneth Branagh Lin-Manuel Miranda Mark Gatiss Martin McDonagh Olivier Awards Robert Icke Shakespeare Theatre Theatre awards

2016 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen – Duke of York’s Hangmen by…

Posted in Christopher Hampton Florian Zeller Kiln Theatre Theatre

Review: The Mother, Tricycle Theatre

“Living with my son again is the best thing that could possibly happen to me; apart from…

Posted in Phoebe Waller-Bridge TV

TV Review: Crashing Series 1, Channel 4

  “Everyone fucks everyone, eventually” I wrote here about the first episode of Crashing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sitcom…

Posted in National Theatre Sarah Kane Theatre

Review: Cleansed, National Theatre

“Felt it. Here. Inside. Here.” I think I have to admit to liking the idea of Katie…