Tag: Alex Jennings

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DVD Review: Silk, Series 1

“245 women silks ever, out of tens of thousands” I do love a legal drama and so…

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2014 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud  Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the NT…

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Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: Hello/Goodbye, Hampstead Downstairs

“Shirt on, shirt off, I’m relaxed…” The oddest thing happened whilst watching the beginning of the second…

Posted in Readings The Other Palace Theatre Timberlake Wertenbaker

Not-a-Review: Jefferson’s Garden, St James Theatre

“I wonder how I will make the potatoes understand” Just a quickie to cover the last of…

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DVD Review: The 39 Steps

“Life never seems grim after a couple of fried eggs” I haven’t quite made it to see…

Posted in Film Peter Morgan

DVD Review: The Queen

“Duty first, self second” I hadn’t watched the film of The Queen since seeing it at the…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Radio Dramas – Bad Memories and That’s Mine, This is Yours

“According to the meta-data on the files…” From the first moments of the prologue, it is clear…

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Radio Review: Dickens in London

“It seems that I would be an uncommercial traveler” The bi-centenary of Charles Dickens’ birth has been…