Category: Writers

Posted in Tennessee Williams Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2014 Young Vic

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic

“I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that’s sinful,…

Posted in Isley Lynn Theatre Theatre503

Review: Little Stitches, Theatre503

“They held me down, My mother’s knees in my chest. Keeping me still. As that man sliced…

Posted in Musicals Open Air Theatre Suzan-Lori Parks Theatre

Review: Porgy and Bess, Open Air Theatre

“I’m full of all commotion like an ocean full of rhum” The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (as it…

Posted in Bola Agbaje Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #47

Eclipse Theatre’s 10by10 project was a series of short films “exploding the myth of a homogenised Black…

Posted in Cabaret Noël Coward The Other Palace Theatre

Review: Laughing Matters with Celia Imrie, St James Studio

  “They’re out of sorts in Sunderland And terribly cross in Kent” There’s something a little curious…

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…