Tag: Jonathan Ajayi

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TV Review: Vigil (Series 2)

Series 2 of Vigil comes to a rollicking good end, with Suranne Jones in great form “I…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: Vigil, (Series 2 Episodes 1-3)

Suranne Jones’ DCI Amy Silva returns in Series 2 of Vigil, with the submarine replaced with a…

Posted in Ian Charleson Award National Theatre RSC Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Theatre awards Young Vic

The 2020/21 Ian Charleson Award

First prizeGloria Obianyo, for Neoptolemus in Kae Tempest’s Paradise (National Theatre) Second prizeAimee Lou Wood, for Sonya…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Young Vic

Review: Hamlet, Young Vic

Cush Jumbo is excellent, and there’s a great Ophelia, but do we really need another Hamlet? Three…

Posted in Caryl Churchill Gate Theatre Hampstead Theatre Morgan Lloyd Malcolm News Noël Coward Not-London Royal Court Shakespeare Sheffield Theatres Theatre West End Young Vic

August casting update

  Linda Bassett and John Heffernan have been cast in Caryl Churchill’s new play What If If Only,…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Donmar Warehouse Inua Ellams Lucy Kirkwood Mark Gatiss Musicals National Theatre Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Simon Stone Theatre West End Young Vic

News: NT launches new streaming service National Theatre at Home

The National Theatre, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies, has today launched  National Theatre at Home, a brand-new…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Inua Ellams National Theatre Theatre

Not-a-re-review: Three Sisters, National Theatre

“The son is today what the father was yesterday” I don’t have anything more to say about…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Barbican Theatre Comedy fosterIANs Internationaal Theater Amsterdam Inua Ellams Katie Mitchell Martin Crimp Musicals National Theatre Simon Stone Theatre Top moments VAULT Festival West End

10 of my top moments in a theatre in 2019

Flashes of excellence can be found in the midst of any production so this list celebrates some…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Inua Ellams National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2019

Review: Three Sisters, National Theatre

Inua Ellams’ relocation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters to the Biafran Civil War proves devastatingly effective at the…