Tag: Nick Barber

Posted in Philippa Gregory TV

TV Review: The Spanish Princess, Series 2

Laura Carmichael emerges as a late MVP in the second instalment of Philippa Gregory’s The Spanish Princess…

Posted in Philippa Gregory TV

TV Review: The Spanish Princess, Series 1

Series 1 of Philippa Gregory’s The Spanish Princess introduces Elliot Cowan and Harriet Walter to the mix…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: Cuffs Episodes 5-8

“Are you one of those? They’re everywhere in Brighton aren’t they. ‘Yeah, not so many in Halifax…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #56

  Almost unbearably sad, Hope Dickson Leach’s Morning Echo captures the suffocating resentment that can build up…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+ Richard Eyre

Film Review: Stage Beauty (2004)

“A woman playing a woman, where’s the trick in that”  Any film with Clare Higgins yelling ‘give…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: Punishment without Revenge, Arcola Theatre

“I may exaggerate beyond all sense and reason” The third of the Spanish Golden Age plays for…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: A Lady of Little Sense, Arcola Theatre

“She is as thick as potato mash” The remit of the Spanish Golden Age rep season, a…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: Don Gil of the Green Breeches, Arcola Theatre

“What’s your disguise for?” The signs were there, I just chose not to see them. The main…

Posted in Film Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

DVD Review: Othello, Shakespeare’s Globe

“And what’s he then that says I play the villain?When this advice is free I give and…