Category: Writers
Film Review: Mary Reilly (1996)
“I always knew you’d be the death of us.” Even the look on Julia Roberts’ face is…
2016 Laurence Olivier Awards winners
Best New Play Hangmen by Martin McDonagh – Jerwood Downstairs, Royal Court / Wyndham’s Farinelli and the…
Review: Hedda Gabler, Salisbury Playhouse
“Every so often a dark impulse takes hold of me” Brian Friel’s translation of Hedda Gabler was…
Review: Les Blancs, National Theatre
“Do you think the rape of a continent dissolves in cigarette smoke?” To think that just a…
Review: The Glass Menagerie, Nottingham Playhouse
“But Mother ‘Yes?’ I’m crippled” You might, not unreasonably, think that I’d had my fill of Glass…
Review: Reasons to be Happy, Hampstead Theatre
“That’s like practically incest” Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Happy actually takes the form of a sequel…
Re-review: People, Places and Things, Wyndham’s Theatre
“I want to live vividly” There’s something rather apposite about the rush to label Denise Gough’s performance…
Review: Anna Karenina, Brockley Jack
“What happens if you can’t stop?” Helen Edmundson’s adaptation of Anna Karenina really is a clever thing….
Film Review: The Pass, BFI Flare
“I’m not gay…look at me, I’m a footballer” It’s no mean feat for an LGBT Film Festival…
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