Tag: Christopher Godwin

Posted in Film

Lockdown film review: Emma. (2020)

Autumn de Wilder offers an Emma. with a contemporary sensibility but not much sense “Mother, you MUST…

Posted in Film Lin-Manuel Miranda

Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

54 years is quite the wait for a sequel but Mary Poppins Returns is full of nostalgic…

Posted in National Theatre Peter Shaffer Theatre Theatre review

Re-review: Amadeus, National Theatre

“We were both ordinary men, he and I.” Though Rufus Norris’ tenure hasn’t managed to nail a…

Posted in TV

Not-a-TV-Review: The Miniaturist

It’s a no for me for The Miniaturist “Cornelia will fetch you a herring” I haven’t read…

Posted in Abi Morgan Anton Chekhov Arthur Miller Beth Steel Bristol Old Vic Donmar Warehouse Eugene O'Neill fosterIANs Gate Theatre Hampstead Theatre Hope Theatre Musicals National Theatre Peter Gill Peter Shaffer Robert Icke Rory Mullarkey Royal Exchange Samuel Beckett Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Theatre

20 shows to look forward to in 2018

There’s all sorts of big productions arriving in the months to come (Long Day’s Journey Into Night,…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 2

“I was a woeful looker-on” On a night when the real drama was unfolding in Stockholm’s Globen…

Posted in Arthur Miller Old Vic Theatre Yaël Farber

Review: The Crucible, Old Vic

“An everlasting funeral marches round your heart” On paper, this latest incarnation of The Crucible at the Old…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse LGBTQ+ Peter Gill Theatre

Review: Versailles, Donmar Warehouse

“Democracy…such an un-English word” Expectations for Peter Gill’s Versailles were quite low due to a number of…

Posted in TV

TV Review: A Young Doctor’s Notebook

 “Even letters don’t want to be sent here” The term black comedy is often used in reference…