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Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett David Hare Digital Eugene O'Neill George Bernard Shaw Harold Pinter Howard Brenton Michael Frayn Musicals National Theatre Noël Coward Peter Shaffer Shakespeare Stephen Sondheim Tennessee Williams Theatre Tom Stoppard Tony Kushner

Review: National Theatre – Fifty Years on Stage

“We’ve got two hours to show the vast range of work the National has done over the…

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Review: Ghosts, Almeida Theatre

“I want the kind of love a mother cannot give” Like the dose of the clap on…

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Review: The Memory of Water / And Then There Were None / A Special Kind of Dark, Radio 4

“You’ve got that slight edge in your voice, like a blunt saw” Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of…

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2012 Laurence Olivier Awards nominations

Best New Play  Collaborators by John Hodge – National Theatre Cottesloe Jumpy by April De Angelis –…

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Film Review: All or Nothing (2002)

“Love, it’s like a dripping tap” First up was 2002’s All or Nothing, though it was a…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Vera Drake (2004)

“She’s gonna get herself in trouble one of these days” I’m pretty sure that Vera Drake was…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Another Year (2010)

“On a scale of one to ten, how happy would you say you were” Mike Leigh’s most…

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Review: Grief, National Theatre

“I don’t want some lovely pink lemonade, I want a sherry” Mike Leigh’s new play for the…

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London Film Critics Circle Awards 2010 winners

Film of the Year The Social Network Black Swan The Kids Are All Right The King’s Speech…