Tag: Maggie McCarthy

Posted in Film

Film Review: Hysteria (2011)

“It’s a bit like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time” I’ve had…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre

Review: Children of the Sun, National Theatre

“We are tiny, tiny fragments of miniscule cogs in a grand and fabulously random collision” If it…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Noël Coward Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Private Lives, Minerva

“You don’t hold any mystery for me darling, do you mind?” Is there anything left that one…

Posted in George Bernard Shaw National Theatre Theatre

Review: The Doctor’s Dilemma, National Theatre

“Cure guaranteed” George Bernard Shaw’s 1906 medical ethics drama The Doctor’s Dilemma had a lot to live…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Chichester Festival Theatre Michael Frayn Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Uncle Vanya, Minerva

“I could have been a Dostoevsky” Opening the season for Chichester’s 2012 Festival, celebrating its fiftieth anniversary…

Posted in Film

Film Review: Calendar Girls (2003)

“I can’t knit or make plum jam, but I can make a bloody victoria sponge…Of course I…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Nina Raine Theatre

Review: Tiger Country, Hampstead Theatre

“I’m losing patience with the patients” Tiger Country is the third play by Nina Raine, writer of…

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 LGBTQ+ Noël Coward Old Vic Theatre

Review: Design for Living, Old Vic

“I love you. You love me. You love Otto. I love Otto. Otto loves you. Otto loves…