Tag: Iain Mitchell

Posted in Digital Henrik Ibsen Ivo van Hove National Theatre News Shakespeare Theatre Yaël Farber

News: One year of National Theatre at Home – New titles added

Ahead of National Theatre at Home’s one year anniversary on 1 December, the National Theatre has today announced the…

Posted in Film Peter Morgan Philippa Gregory

Film Review: The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman cast a starry glow over Philippa Gregory’s The Other Boleyn Girl “When…

Posted in Da Vinci's Demons TV

DVD Review: Da Vinci’s Demons Series 1

“War has always been the handmaiden of progress” From its opening moments of buttocks and blood (both…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Paddington (2014)

“I’m going to stuff you, bear” A rather unexpectedly lovely surprise from the end of last year…

Posted in National Theatre Richard Bean Theatre West End

Re-review: Great Britain, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“They weren’t lies, they were well researched stories that later turned out not to be true” Just…

Posted in National Theatre Richard Bean Theatre

Review: Great Britain, National Theatre

 “That’s what we do, we destroy lives…but it’s on your behalf, because you like to read about…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Silk, Series 1

“245 women silks ever, out of tens of thousands” I do love a legal drama and so…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre

Review: Travels with my Aunt, Menier Chocolate Factory

“People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations” There’s a strange disconnect at the heart of Travels with…