Tag: Matthew Cottle

Posted in Agatha Christie Alan Bennett Cabaret Musicals News Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch Theatre West End

An assortment of October theatre news

Full casting has been announced for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s upcoming production of Misfits, an innovative new hybrid…

Posted in Charles Dickens Film

Film Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

Armando Iannucci’s rollicking adaptation of The Personal History of David Copperfield is huge amounts of fun to…

Posted in Richard Eyre Theatre TV

Lockdown TV review: The Dresser (2015)

Sirs Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins do much to banish my bad memories of Ronald Harwood in…

Posted in Spooks TV Zinnie Harris

Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 6

AKA the one that doesn’t work and the one that you should avoid if you’re feeling angsty…

Posted in Adam Guettel Almeida Theatre Barbican Theatre Cheek By Jowl Chichester Festival Theatre Dance David Greig David Hare Donmar Warehouse Harold Pinter Jamie Lloyd LGBTQ+ Noël Coward Not-London Old Vic Oscar Wilde Terence Rattigan Theatre Theatre Royal Bath UK West End

June theatre round-up

I might have taken a break from reviewing in June, but I didn’t stop going to the…

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Not-London Theatre UK

Not-a-review: The Chalk Garden, Chichester Festival Theatre

The Chalk Garden fails to do it for me at Chichester Festival Theatre, despite the presence of…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn Theatre West End

Brexited Review: How The Other Half Loves, Duke of York’s Theatre

How The Other Half Loves indeed… A rather unexpected transfer for this Alan Ayckbourn play (losing Tamzin…

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV Unforgotten

TV Review: Unforgotten Series 1

“All these cases where people pretends to be one thing for half a century and then turn…

Posted in Alan Ayckbourn National Theatre Theatre

Review: A Small Family Business, National Theatre

“Everybody else works little fiddles, because that’s what the system is designed for” Who knows what hold…