Category: Theatre

Posted in Bush Theatre Theatre

Review: Perseverance Drive, Bush Theatre

“I know we have a certain amount of dirty laundry in this family, but is it really…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #46

Expectation Management, Episode 2 from tupaq felber on Vimeo. A second instalment for Tupaq Felber’s Expectation Management,…

Posted in Musicals Stephen Sondheim The Other Palace Theatre

Review: Marry Me A Little, St James Theatre

“Who needs Albert Schweitzer when the lights are low” Just a (relative) quickie for this as I…

Posted in Mark Gatiss TV

DVD Review: Sense and Sensibility (2008)

“I think we all have to find our own ways to be happy” Who else but Andrew…

Posted in Film Harold Pinter

DVD Review: Mansfield Park (1999)

“Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings” Eek. So having sampled the more…

Posted in Nick Dear TV

DVD Review: Persuasion (1995)

“No-one wants to be in calm waters all their life” Anyone who has read this blog for…

Posted in Lee Hall Theatre Tom Stoppard West End

Review: Shakespeare in Love, Noël Coward Theatre

“What kind of man would you be without the theatre” I can’t lie – I had rather…

Posted in Film Tom Stoppard

Film Review: Shakespeare in Love (1998)

“Theatre is the handmaiden of the devil” With a theatrical version of Shakespeare in Love about to…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+ Richard Eyre

Film Review: Stage Beauty (2004)

“A woman playing a woman, where’s the trick in that”  Any film with Clare Higgins yelling ‘give…