Tag: Roger Allam

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 Alan Bennett Film National Theatre Theatre

Film Review: The Lady in the Van

“You wouldn’t see Harold Pinter pushing vans down the street” It is more than 15 years since…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: City of Angels (Original London Cast Recording 1993)

  “I’m one of a long line of good girls” I was no real fan of the…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #57

  Roger Allam as an ageing rocker called Quentin with stagefright? Yes please. Danny Stack’s Trading Licks…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: Seminar, Hampstead Theatre

  “Am I trying to construct a living breathing cosmos with language or am I just scratching…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Politician’s Husband

”Sometimes you have to do bad things to get into power, in order to do good things…

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 Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Votes for Women/The Magnificent Andrea, Radio 3/4

“No decent woman will be able to say suffrage without blushing for another generation” Part of a…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: The Tempest, Shakespeare’s Globe

“The isle is full of noises” It’s always nice to be surprised by a night at the…