Tag: John Dagleish

Posted in Film Kenneth Branagh Shakespeare

Film Review: All Is True (2018)

Ben Elton and Kenneth Branagh latter-day Shakespeare biography All Is True is at once precious and poignant…

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 Musicals Old Vic Theatre

Not-a-review: Sylvia, Old Vic

I’m opting not to review Sylvia but rather to haul the Old Vic over the coals for…

Posted in DC Moore National Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Common, National Theatre

“If I were a man you’d call me rogue; let us do with whore, liar, thief, cunt”…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Young Vic

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Vic

“On the dank and dirty ground…” Joe Hill-Gibbins’ idiosyncratic 2015 take on Measure for Measure filled the Young Vic…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Moorside Episode 2

“You haven’t lost your faith in people, have you?” The problem with using superlatives is that it…

Posted in TV

TV Review: The Moorside Episode 1

  “Anyone tells you you’re not a good mother, you can tell them to shove it up…

Posted in Christmas Musicals News Not-London Shakespeare Theatre Yaël Farber

Round-up of news and treats and other interesting things

Marianne Elliott wasted no time in making headlines twice over last week – after the announcenement of…

Posted in Kenneth Branagh Terence Rattigan Theatre West End

Review: Harlequinade / All On Her Own, Garrick Theatre

“Which text are you using?” Part of Kenneth Branagh’s opening salvo as his year-long residency at the…