Tag: Stanley Townsend

Posted in Cast Recordings Conor McPherson Music Musicals Old Vic Theatre West End

Album Review: Girl From The North Country (Original London Cast Recording)

The pure quality of the Original London Cast Recording of Girl From The North Country means it…

Posted in Conor McPherson Musicals Old Vic Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2017

Review: Girl From The North Country, Old Vic

“Everything’s a little upside down As a matter of fact the wheels have stopped” I’m no great…

Posted in Annie Baker Bijan Sheibani David Eldridge DC Moore Duncan Macmillan Henrik Ibsen Inua Ellams Ivo van Hove Lee Hall Lucy Kirkwood National Theatre News Nina Raine Patrick Marber Peter Shaffer Rory Mullarkey Shakespeare Simon Stephens Theatre Yaël Farber

News: so much goodness at the National Theatre 2017-18

Mountains of info was released by the National Theatre about their plans for 2017-18 at this morning’s…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: The Royals Season 1

“When a mother loses her first-born son, I believe she’s allowed to grieve… ‘Not when she’s the…

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 2

“You believe in laws but there are only lechers” For some reason or other, I stopped watching…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 2

“I was a woeful looker-on” On a night when the real drama was unfolding in Stockholm’s Globen…

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TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 1

“I would his troubles were expired” The Hollow Crown rises again. Four years on from the first…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Physician (2013)

“How pale and tedious this world would be without mystery”  Based on the best-selling novel of the…

Posted in Royal Court Theatre West End

Re-review: The Nether, Duke of York’s Theatre

“I’ve read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour…