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TV Review: Anne

Punishing but essential, Anne puts a personal slant on the Hillsborough disaster “Justice has not been done”…

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Film Review: I Came By (2022)

Netflix would-be thriller I Came By has a strikingly hammy performance by Hugh Bonneville and a lot…

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News: Tristram Kenton’s stage archive – the David Hare edition

I’m loving this deep dive that the Guardian is doing  into Tristram Kenton’s archive, this time taking…

Posted in Film Richard Eyre

Film Review: The Children Act (2017)

The neglect of Stanley Tucci aside, The Children Act does a decent job of bringing Ian McEwan’s…

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June theatre round-up

I might have taken a break from reviewing in June, but I didn’t stop going to the…

Posted in Richard Eyre Shakespeare TV

TV Review: King Lear, BBC Two

A contemporary adaptation of King Lear does little to prove its worth on BBC Two “Some villain…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Barbican Theatre Blanche McIntyre Chichester Festival Theatre Conor McPherson fosterIANs Hope Theatre Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Ivo van Hove LGBTQ+ Lin-Manuel Miranda Martin Sherman Mike Bartlett Musicals National Theatre New Diorama Old Vic Shakespeare Stiles + Drewe Theatre Tony Kushner Top moments

11 of my top moments in a theatre in 2017

As ever, the wait for the end-of-year lists of favourite plays and performances has to continue until…

Posted in Doctor Who LGBTQ+ Mark Gatiss Mike Bartlett Rona Munro Steven Moffat TV

TV Review: Doctor Who Series 10

Episodes, in order of preference World Enough and Time Extremis The Doctor Falls Thin Ice Knock Knock…

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Casting announced for Theatre Royal Bath’s Racing Demon

Theatre Royal Bath Productions has announced full casting for David Hare’s Racing Demon, directed by Jonathan Church,…