Tag: Alexander Cobb

Posted in Almeida Theatre Friedrich Schiller Robert Icke Theatre

Mary Stuart – heads you win

“We are both queens”   There’s much to enjoy about this Mary Stuart but what is particularly…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Friedrich Schiller Robert Icke Theatre

Mary Stuart – tails you lose

“You seem to know our miseries alright” A coin toss is naturally a game of chance and…

Posted in Ripper Street TV

TV Review: Ripper Street Series 2

“You believe in laws but there are only lechers” For some reason or other, I stopped watching…

Posted in Theatre West End

Review: Red Velvet, Garrick Theatre

“…now begrimed and black as mine own face” For all the excitement of Kenneth Branagh’s announcement of…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Blanche McIntyre Headlong John Donnelly Theatre Watford Palace

Review: The Seagull, Headlong at Watford Palace

“Art can’t be made into a spectacle; you can’t put it in a box”   There’s something…

Posted in Arthur Wing Pinero National Theatre Stephen Beresford Theatre

Review: The Magistrate, National Theatre

“It’s the little lies that get you into trouble” Aged 36, the widowed Agatha Posket feared for…

Posted in Royal Court Theatre

Review: Goodbye to All That, Royal Court

“The older you get the more you realise: you don’t grow up. Not really. You just get…