Category: Writers

Posted in Bijan Sheibani National Theatre Shelagh Delaney Theatre

Review: A Taste of Honey, National Theatre

“My usual self is a very unusual self” The sight of Bijan Sheibani’s name on the creatives’…

Posted in Alexi Kaye Campbell Arcola Theatre LGBTQ+ Theatre Tom Wells TV

Review: Outbox – Snapshots, Arcola Theatre

“If we use my poster, the gays will come” All-gay theatre company Outbox put together Snapshots, an…

Posted in Not-London Royal Exchange Simon Stephens Theatre UK

Review: Blindsided, Royal Exchange

“He puts his hand in your knickers and promises the world” Lord this was grim. Hard-going, unlikeable…

Posted in Tennessee Williams Theatre

Review: The Hotel Plays, Langham Hotel

“The world is a circle, and everything comes back to where it started” A soldier on leave,…

Posted in John Webster LGBTQ+ Theatre

Review: Cover Her Face, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club

“In what a shadow or deep pit of darkness doth womanish and fearful mankind live” Gemma Arterton…

Posted in Digital Film Laura Wade Short Films

Short Film Review #33

Responding to the work of Belarus Free Theatre, Connection is part of the continuing short film work…

Posted in Abi Morgan Royal Court Theatre

Review: The Mistress Contract, Royal Court

“Intimacy to you is one thing, to me another”  Regular sex without all the encumbrances of marriage,…

Posted in Howard Brenton Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Eternal Love, Cambridge Arts Theatre

“If you marry me you’ll never be a candidate for the Vatican” Originally seen at Shakespeare’s Globe…

Posted in Leo Tolstoy TV

DVD Review: Anna Karenina (2000)

 “I need to know if he still loves me” Joe Wright’s film version of Anna Karenina was,…