Tag: Penny Downie
2017 Oscars – pre-ceremony thoughts
“For whatever reason, he spared a hamster” When you see as much theatre as I do, it…
Review: All My Sons, Rose Kingston
“That’s why there’s a God; otherwise anything can happen” Arthur Miller’s titanic All My Sons has been…
Review: Rabbit Hole, Hampstead Theatre
“People want things to make sense” Anchored by a barnstorming central turn from Imelda Staunton (as if…
Radio Review: Denmark Hill / Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight / The Day We Caught The Train
“I have to write an essay on Shakespeare’s view of the family, it’s a bugger” Denmark Hill is…
DVD Review: Silk, Series 1
“245 women silks ever, out of tens of thousands” I do love a legal drama and so…
Review: Storm in a Flower Vase, Arts Theatre
“It could be the end of flower arranging, it could be the end of everything” When I…
Review: Red Enters the Eye / Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear / Feather, Radio 4
“Come, I’ll make you some lamb cutlets” A friend recommended Red Enters The Eye to me mainly…
TV Review: Ripper Street Series 1
“Whitechapel calls you back” Victorian crime procedural Ripper Street burst onto our screens at the beginning of…
Review: Judgement Day, The Print Room
“Critics! Do I work to amuse them? Can they judge me as equals? – when they are…
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