Category: Writers

Posted in National Theatre Theatre Tom Stoppard

Some initial points of interest* about The Hard Problem at National Theatre

Damien Molony looking cute in a cardigan The line “she was milking the family buffalo at 8”…

Posted in Juliet Gilkes Romero Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Review: Upper Cut, Southwark Playhouse

“I have to be a politician, who ‘happens’ to be black. Not a black man who ‘happens’…

Posted in Critics’ Choice Awards Film Film & TV awards Stephen Adly Guirgis

20th Critics’ Choice Awards winners

Best Picture Boyhood Birdman Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Imitation Game Nightcrawler Selma The Theory…

Posted in Alice Birch Barbican Theatre Caryl Churchill Curve Theatre Enda Walsh fosterIANs Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove James Graham Laura Wade Lyric Hammersmith Mike Bartlett Musicals Nick Payne Not-London Orange Tree Theatre Rona Munro Sarah Kane Southwark Playhouse Theatre

Looking ahead to 2015

I realise I’m just adding (belatedly) to the plethora of 2015 features already published but so many…

Posted in National Theatre Richard Bean Theatre West End

Re-review: Great Britain, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“They weren’t lies, they were well researched stories that later turned out not to be true” Just…

Posted in BAFTA Film Awards Film Film & TV awards Mike Leigh Stephen Beresford

68th British Academy Film Awards nominations

BAFTA Fellowship Mike Leigh Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema BBC Films Best Film Birdman – Alejandro González…

Posted in Bryony Lavery National Theatre Theatre

Review: Treasure Island, National Theatre

“Thanks for all the pies and adventures” The big family-oriented show at the National Theatre this winter…

Posted in BBC Audio Drama Awards EV Crowe Radio Plays

BBC Audio Drama Awards 2015 finalists

Best Original Audio Drama (Single play) Everyday Time Machines by Al Smith, produced by Sally Avens for…

Posted in Film Laura Wade

Film Review: The Riot Club (2014)

“I’m afraid you’re not really the right sort of chap” Laura Wade’s Posh took the Royal Court by…