Tag: Leanne Best

Posted in David Hare TV

DVD Review: Salting the Battlefield

“It’s not a question of how it is, it’s a question of how it appears” Salting the…

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TV Review: From Darkness, BBC1

“Fat, embittered, heavy-drinking, middle-aged male detective. Do you know how much of a cliché that is” Part…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Desperately Seeking Susan (London Cast)

“One way or another I’m gonna lose ya” There’s something perverse about wanting to have been there…

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Film Review: The Woman in Black 2 – The Angel of Death (2014)

  “Our own worst enemies are ourselves, our fears” Where films succeed, sequels must now follow and…

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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…

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2014 Offie Award Finalists

Best Female Leanne Best for The Match Box at The Tricycle  Lucy Ellinson for Grounded at The…

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2014 What’s On Stage Award nominations

BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Helen Mirren – The Audience at the Gielgud  Anne-Marie Duff – Strange Interlude at the NT…

Posted in Frank McGuinness Kiln Theatre Theatre

Review: The Match Box, Tricycle

“Take a match to their thatch” Frank McGuinness is definitely a playwright who never likes his audience…

Posted in Bijan Sheibani Frank McGuinness National Theatre Theatre

Review: Damned by Despair, National Theatre

“Look on this and learn. Let that be your punishment” I don’t think there is another director…