Category: Writers

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,…

Posted in Anton Chekhov TV

DVD Review: Anton Chekhov’s The Duel

“You sap the foundations of civilisation” Based on one of Chekhov’s novellas, The Duel is set in…

Posted in Musicals Samuel Adamson Theatre

Final review: The Light Princess, National Theatre

 “See these tears flow, this H2O” There’s not really much more to say than to bid a…

Posted in Conor McPherson Donmar Warehouse Theatre West End

Re-review: The Weir, Wyndham’s Theatre

  “Such a small thing. But a huge thing” The Donmar’s production of Conor McPherson’s The Weir…