Tag: Jodie McNee

Posted in News Not-London Royal Court Royal Exchange Theatre

Casting news for Persuasion and Anatomy of a Suicide

  I’ve already written of my excitement for the forthcoming Persuasion  and the announcement of the cast hasn’t…

Posted in Film Shakespeare

DVD Review: Hamlet (2014)

“A man’s life’s no more than to say ‘one’” One of the main problems with the countless…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Physician (2013)

“How pale and tedious this world would be without mystery”  Based on the best-selling novel of the…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Mike Bartlett Theatre

Review: Game, Almeida Theatre

“They’re adults, they’re not stupid, they knew what this was” There’s not too much more that can…

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Looking ahead to 2015

I realise I’m just adding (belatedly) to the plethora of 2015 features already published but so many…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre

Review: 3 Winters, National Theatre

“Governments fall, wars break out – there’ll be nothing left of this country” Recent Croatian history forms…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Not-London Royal Exchange Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: Hamlet, Royal Exchange

“What a piece of work is a man”   The political may be largely subsumed into the…

Posted in Harold Brighouse Open Air Theatre Theatre

Review: Hobson’s Choice, Open Air Theatre

“There’s another man with claims on me” Harold Brighouse’s 1916 play Hobson’s Choice is regarded a good…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: The Empty Quarter, Hampstead Downstairs

“It’s easy to get carried away here, it happens to everyone” Alexandra Wood’s The Empty Quarter may…