Tag: Malcolm Sinclair

Posted in TV

DVD Review: Silk, Series 2

“People are saying you only made silk because you’re a woman and from Bolton” The joys of…

Posted in Leo Tolstoy TV

DVD Review: Anna Karenina (2000)

 “I need to know if he still loves me” Joe Wright’s film version of Anna Karenina was,…

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 LGBTQ+ Theatre West End

Review: Quartermaine’s Terms, Wyndham’s Theatre

“I don’t want them dripping their filthy compassion over me” Lonely teachers seem to be a bit…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: The Eustace Diamonds, Radio 4

“If only money were not an obstacle” With fortuitous timing, given how much Trollope I’d read and…

Posted in Shakespeare The Hollow Crown Theatre TV

TV Review: The Hollow Crown, Henry V

“The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum” The fourth and final part of The Hollow Crown was…

Posted in George Bernard Shaw National Theatre Theatre

Review: The Doctor’s Dilemma, National Theatre

“Cure guaranteed” George Bernard Shaw’s 1906 medical ethics drama The Doctor’s Dilemma had a lot to live…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Young Victoria (2009)

“Do you ever feel like a chess piece being moved around in a game against your will”…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Nicholas Wright Not-London Terence Rattigan Theatre UK

Review: Rattigan’s Nijinsky, Chichester Festival Theatre

“The English vice is that we don’t own up to our emotions…we think they demean us” Rattigan’s…