Category: Theatre

Posted in Anton Chekhov Chichester Festival Theatre David Hare Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Platonov, Chichester Festival Theatre

  Didn’t feel much like writing about the Young Chekhov season today (or going to be quite…

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 Almeida Theatre Ancient Greeks Digital Theatre

Review: The Odyssey, Almeida/Live-stream

  “I’m stunned with wonder” When Rupert Goold first announced the #AlmeidaGreeks season with all its familiar…

Posted in Musicals Theatre

Review: Vampire Hospital Waiting Room, Above the Arts

“Do you want to know what Old Kent Road smells like?” Beach Comet’s Edinburgh hit Vampire Hospital…

Posted in Orange Tree Theatre Terence Rattigan Theatre

Review: French Without Tears, Orange Tree Theatre

“If I’m left alone with her for a minute, I shudder to think what might happen” You…

Posted in Harley Granville Barker National Theatre Theatre

Review: Waste, National Theatre

“The stateman’s task is the accommodation of stubborn facts to shifting circumstance and in effect to the…

Posted in Kiln Theatre Molière Theatre

Review: A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes, Tricycle Theatre

“A thick, golden-brown, brickhouse goddess of voluptuous lusciousness” Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand was…

Posted in Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East

Review: Anita and Me, Theatre Royal Stratford East

“Now here’s a little story To tell it is a must” One gets the feeling that had…

Posted in David Hare TV

DVD Review: Salting the Battlefield

“It’s not a question of how it is, it’s a question of how it appears” Salting the…