Tag: Clive Francis

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown, Series 1

“To do nothing is the hardest job of all”  It’s taken a little time to getting round…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Broadway fosterIANs Hampstead Theatre Hope Theatre Howard Goodall Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Lorraine Hansberry Mike Bartlett Musicals National Theatre Sara Bareilles Sarah Kane Theatre Top moments West End

9 of my top moments in a theatre in 2016

The end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances should be on their way soon, once the food…

Posted in Film & TV awards Screen Actors Guild Awards TV West End

23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards nominees

Film Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Casey Affleck – Manchester by the…

Posted in JB Priestley Theatre West End

Review: An Inspector Calls, Playhouse

“You haven’t finished asking questions – have you?” More than a little debt owed to the Guardian’s…

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown Episodes 1 + 2

“The country needs to be led by someone strong” You’d be hard-pressed not to know that Netflix…

Posted in Lorraine Hansberry National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2016 Yaël Farber

Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre

“Do you think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?” To think that just a…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Mr Turner (2014)

“There’s no room for cynicism in the reviewing of art” One might equally say there’s no room…

Posted in Alan Bennett Richmond Theatre Theatre

Review: The Madness of George III, Richmond Theatre

“The state of monarch and the state of lunacy share a frontier” Alan Bennett’s play The Madness…

Posted in Orange Tree Theatre Theatre

Review: Three Farces, Orange Tree Theatre

“But that’s the cupboard in which Aunt Dinah keeps her preserves and pickles…” I have always something…