Tag: Lucy Robinson

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown – The Wars of the Roses: 1. Henry VI Part 1

“I would his troubles were expired” The Hollow Crown rises again. Four years on from the first…

Posted in Harley Granville Barker National Theatre Theatre

Review: Waste, National Theatre

“The stateman’s task is the accommodation of stubborn facts to shifting circumstance and in effect to the…

Posted in TV

TV Review: U Be Dead (2009)

“We’ve been getting phone calls, text messages, emails…can’t trace where or who from” Another drama about online…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre Tom Stoppard

Some initial points of interest* about The Hard Problem at National Theatre

Damien Molony looking cute in a cardigan The line “she was milking the family buffalo at 8”…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Pride and Prejudice (1995)

“Your alliance would be a disgrace” This six-part adaptation of Pride and Prejudice has gone down in…

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Emma (1996 TV)

“Dear Emma bears everything so well” Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Emma for the television may have suffered…

Posted in Blogged Theatre West End

Fed up with football? World Cup theatre offers

  “Football crazy, football mad” The World Cup kicks off on Thursday 12th June in São Paolo…

Posted in Moira Buffini Theatre West End

Re-review: Handbagged, Vaudeville Theatre

 “One had to laugh” Definitely something of a luxury revisit this one, my third time seeing it….

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

“You won’t see better for your grey pound” The opening quarter of John Madden’s film The Best…