Tag: Lyndsey Marshal

Posted in TV

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 David Hare Film

Film Review: The Hours (2012)

“I seem to have fallen out of time” Based on Michael Cunningham’s novel of the same name,…

Posted in Musicals TV

TV Review: That Day We Sang

  “We want all the spirit of Lancashire, but not the accent”  One of the most anticipated…

Posted in Film

Film Review: 1234 (2008)

“Step one – learn three chords” Those who know me will instantly recognise the main point of…

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…

Posted in Agatha Christie Radio Plays Theatre

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…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #12

Instalment 12 of the Short Film Review – keep those recommendations coming and I promise I will…

Posted in National Theatre Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Othello, National Theatre

“Demand me nothing: what you know, you know” Though I’ve been to the theatre a fair bit…

Posted in Digital Film Short Films

Short Film Review #10

A new set of short films for your delectation. Laura Degnan’s film Blind Eye is chiefly so…