Tag: Linda Broughton

Posted in TV Waking the Dead

TV Review: Waking the Dead Series 3

Series 3 of Waking the Dead keeps it on the watchable rather than exciting level “That was…

Posted in Doctor Who LGBTQ+ Mark Gatiss Steven Moffat TV

Countdown to new Who: Doctor Who Series 9

“Time will tell, it always does” Phew, the Doctor Who rewatch comes to an end with the…

Posted in Alan Bennett Film National Theatre Theatre

Film Review: The Lady in the Van

“You wouldn’t see Harold Pinter pushing vans down the street” It is more than 15 years since…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe

“She is spherical – like a globe” There’s something lovely about the exposure that director Blanche McIntyre…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: Home, Arcola Theatre

“One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place” An unexpected delight,…

Posted in Bruce Norris Gate Theatre Theatre

Review: Purple Heart, Gate Theatre

“Why would I need to hurt myself?” The scabrous humour of Bruce Norris’ last play Clybourne Park was…

Posted in Finborough Theatre Theatre

Review: The December Man/L’homme de Décembre, Finborough Theatre

  “Ordinary people aren’t expected to be heroes” There are mini-seasons within seasons now at the Finborough…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Donmar Warehouse Kenneth Branagh Theatre West End

Review: Ivanov, Wyndham’s Theatre

I have long struggled with Chekhov, I’ve never really seen the attraction or seen a production that…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Theatre

Review: The Chalk Garden, Donmar Warehouse

The Chalk Garden is a 1955 play by Enid Bagnold, revived here by Michael Grandage at the…