Tag: Nick Sampson

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TV Review: Apple Tree Yard

“Before I met you I was a civilised woman” Based on the novel of the same name…

Posted in David Hare Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: The Moderate Soprano, Hampstead Theatre

“The people of Tunbridge Wells seemed strangely indifferent to Parsifal” Urgh. The presence of national treasures Nancy…

Posted in Film

Film Review: An Education (2009)

“Silly schoolgirls are always getting seduced by glamorous older men, but what about you two?” Lone Scherfig’s…

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 Almeida Theatre Mike Bartlett Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2014

Review: King Charles III, Almeida Theatre

“Like I saw on television when  I was a younger man, I’m Charles no more  The human…

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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 National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Othello, National Theatre

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know” Though I’ve been to the theatre a fair bit…