Tag: Cliff Burnett

Posted in Film Richard Bean

Film Review: The Duke (2020)

Roger Michell’s hugely enjoyable and wonderfully warm-hearted film The Duke stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren “Be…

Posted in Alice Birch Film

Film Review: Lady Macbeth (2017)

Who needs Shakespeare when you have William Oldroyd and Alice Birch to give us a chillingly excellent…

Posted in Manchester Theatre Awards Not-London Theatre Theatre awards UK

The 2017 Manchester Theatre Awards nominations

New play Gypsy Queen by Rob Ward, Hope Mill How My Light Is Spent by Alan Harris,…

Posted in Not-London Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: Hamlet, Citizens Theatre

“One may smile and smile and be a villain” It was with a little hesitation that I…

Posted in Not-London RSC Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: All’s Well That Ends Well, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear”   Whether considered a problem play or no, the…

Posted in Not-London RSC Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: As You Like It, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“I am that he, that poor unfortunate he” As You Like It is one of those plays…

Posted in Not-London RSC Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: Hamlet, RSC at Theatre Royal Newcastle

“Brevity is the soul of wit”   I can’t say I wasn’t warned… Work has seen me…