Tag: James Wilkes

Posted in Jack Thorne Lin-Manuel Miranda Philip Pullman Phoebe Waller-Bridge TV

TV Review: His Dark Materials, Series 2

No spoilers, but the second series of His Dark Materials is a continued absolute triumph “Your duty…

Posted in Barn Theatre Digital James Graham Juliet Gilkes Romero Mark Gatiss Musicals Not-London Nottingham Playhouse RSC Stephen Sondheim Theatre Tom Morton-Smith UK

News: October UK theatre news update

We’re beginning to see the fruits of some more of the lockdown programming that has seen theatres…

Posted in Not-London RSC Theatre Theatre review UK

Review: The Rover, Swan Theatre

“Come, put off this dull humour with your clothes, and assume one as gay and as fantastic…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Digital Jessica Swale Shakespeare

The Complete Walk, from the comfort of your sofa #9

  “Man is a giddy thing” Much Ado About Nothing Quite a bold gambit here, as Jessica…

Posted in Not-London Theatre Tom Morton-Smith UK

Review: Oppenheimer, Swan Theatre

“We could make a star on the surface of the Earth” Michael Billington notes in his Guardian…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe

“She is spherical – like a globe” There’s something lovely about the exposure that director Blanche McIntyre…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Titus Andronicus, Shakespeare’s Globe

“Foul-spoken coward, that thund’rest with thy tongue, and with thy weapon nothing dar’st perform!” The Globe must…

Posted in Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: Howl’s Moving Castle, Southwark Playhouse

“I don’t cook! I’m a scary and powerful fire demon!” Though not intended to be, this is…

Posted in Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: The Boy James, Southwark Playhouse

“I came to realise forever is too long” Belt Up Theatre played Southwark Playhouse last year and…