Tag: Jack Lowden

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals News Not-London Philip Pullman Royal Court Royal Exchange Shakespeare Southwark Playhouse Theatre TV UK

Casting news aplenty!

I round up some of the recent casting news, including Queen Margaret at the Royal Exchange, Wasted…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse News Shakespeare Theatre

News: Casting for 2018 Donmar season

It looks like Josie Rourke is getting a little demob happy at the Donmar, as her penultimate…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

Oscar Week Film Review: Dunkirk

Nominated for 8 Oscars, can Chrstopher Nolan’s Dunkirk change my mind about war films…? “The tide’s turning…

Posted in Critics’ Choice Awards Film Film & TV awards Jack Thorne Kenneth Branagh Kristen Anderson-Lopez Martin McDonagh Pasek + Paul Robert Lopez

23rd Critics’ Choice Awards nominees

Best Picture The Big Sick Call Me by Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk The Florida Project Get…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

TV Review: Wolf Hall

“By the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus” Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and…

Posted in Film

Film Review: uwantme2killhim (2013)

“Everyone is being followed” A rather successful foray into the world of internet chatrooms, somewhat akin to…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Blogged Digital Henrik Ibsen Kenneth Branagh Theatre

Review: Ghosts via Digital Theatre (plus thoughts on the filming of theatre more generally)

“You have no idea what this has cost me” There’s something a little ironic about the fact…

Posted in Ancient Greeks Frank McGuinness Old Vic Theatre

Review: Electra, Old Vic

“They took his life. They took MY life” There’s something fiercely elemental about Kristin Scott Thomas’ extraordinary…

Posted in Ian Charleson Award Theatre Theatre awards

The 2013 Ian Charleson Awards

First prize Jack Lowden, for Oswald in Ghosts (Almeida Theatre) Second prize Jessie Buckley, for Miranda in The Tempest (Shakespeare’s Globe)…