Tag: John Standing

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Film

Film Review: The Hippopotamus (2017)

I find The Hippopotamus unbearable, despite Roger Allam doing his utmost with Stephen Fry’s words “I’m sorry…

Posted in Adam Guettel Andrew Lloyd Webber Anton Chekhov Ben Weatherill David Hare Donmar Warehouse Jack Thorne LGBTQ+ Lynn Nottage Musicals National Theatre Not-London Open Air Theatre Peter Shaffer Rona Munro Royal Court Shakespeare Theatre Theatre Royal Bath Theatre Royal Stratford East UK West End

July theatre round-up

I might have taken a break from reviewing for the last couple of months, but I didn’t…

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 Peter Morgan The Crown TV

TV Review: The Crown, Series 1

“To do nothing is the hardest job of all”  It’s taken a little time to getting round…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Not-London Peter Shaffer Theatre UK

Review: Amadeus, Chichester Festival Theatre

“I heard the voice of God…and it was the voice of an obscene child” Whilst the mere…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: The Line of Beauty

“So what are you doing about sex just now?” As a young gay, reading Alan Hollinghurst novels…

Posted in Mark Gatiss Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: From Russia With Love / My Own Private Gondolier

“It doesn’t do get mixed up with neurotic women in this business” Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres…

Posted in Philip Pullman TV

DVD Review: The Shadow in the North

“I thought you had a bit of milk in your coconut” The second (and last) of the…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Goldfinger, Radio 4

“Gold attracts the most ingenious criminals” I’ve now figured out the best way for me to listen…