Category: Theatre

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…

Posted in Enda Walsh Ivo van Hove Musicals Theatre

Review: Lazarus, King’s Cross Theatre

“A man lost in time” It’s no secret that I’m a big Ivo van Hove fan, I’ve been…

Posted in Old Vic Shakespeare Theatre

Review: King Lear, Old Vic

“’Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind” Though no spring chicken myself, I’m not quite…

Posted in Lyric Hammersmith Mark Ravenhill Theatre

Review: Shopping and Fucking, Lyric Hammersmith

“The getting is cruel, is hard, but the having is civilisation”  Shopping and Fucking. Shopping and fucking….