Tag: Cornelius Booth

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Strays (2023)

Nathaniel Martello-White makes an impressive writer/director debut in twisty horror film The Strays on Netflix “Exactly Ian,…

Posted in Film Tom Stoppard

Lockdown film review: Tulip Fever (2017)

Despite a mostly good cast, Tulip Fever proves a punishingly dull film – not even self-isolation should…

Posted in Theatre West End

Not-a-review: The Libertine, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“You will not like me” There’s probably a German word for a play that opens with a…

Posted in Manchester International Festival Matt Charman Not-London Theatre UK

Review: The Machine / The Masque of Anarchy, MIF

“And these words shall then become Like Oppression’s thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain. Heard…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Twelfth Night, National Theatre

“‘Tis not so sweet now as it was before” To celebrate his 80th birthday, Sir Peter Hall…

Posted in Barbican Theatre Donmar Warehouse fosterIANs Hampstead Theatre Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove Musicals National Theatre Nina Raine Not-London Old Vic Propeller Richard Bean Royal Court RSC Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Terence Rattigan Theatre West End William Finn

Shows I am looking forward to in 2011

My intention is, honestly, to see less theatre this year and try and regain some semblance of…

Posted in Henrik Ibsen National Theatre Samuel Adamson Theatre Theatre review

Review: Pillars of the Community, National Theatre

From where preconceptions come I am not entirely sure, but I’ve never been a fan of Ibsen’s…