Category: Theatre

Posted in Arrows & Traps Shakespeare Theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse

Review: Othello, Upstairs at the Gatehouse

“O god that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains” Playing…

Posted in Harold Pinter Theatre West End

Barely-a-Review: No Man’s Land, Wyndham’s Theatre

“You know what it’s like when you’re in a room with the light on and then suddenly…

Posted in Film Matt Charman

Film Review: Suite Française (2015)

 “Be careful… with your life” Irène Némirovsky’s novel Suite Française has one of those origin stories you’d…

Posted in Christopher Hampton Film

Film Review: Atonement (2007)

“I suppose we should start by reading it” Atonement was only Joe Wright’s second film but crikey…

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh

Film Review: Valkyrie (2008)

“We have to show the world that not all of us are like him” I have to…

Posted in JB Priestley Theatre West End

Review: An Inspector Calls, Playhouse

“You haven’t finished asking questions – have you?” More than a little debt owed to the Guardian’s…

Posted in Terry Johnson Theatre West End

Review: Dead Funny, Vaudeville Theatre

“Benny Hill? Oh, for fuck’s sake…” I started off Terry Johnson’s production of Dead Funny concerned that…

Posted in Conor McPherson Theatre Young Vic

Review: The Nest, Young Vic

“Do you want for anything? Just my husband.” Franz Xaver Kroetz has the distinction of being the…

Posted in Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown Episodes 1 + 2

“The country needs to be led by someone strong” You’d be hard-pressed not to know that Netflix…