Tag: Nicholas Lumley

Posted in Shakespeare TV

TV Review: Shakespeare Live, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

  “I am a spirit of no common rate” The culmination of the BBC’s celebration of the…

Posted in Not-London RSC Theatre UK

Review: Don Quixote, Swan Theatre

“We are all gathering dust here, none of us have much to do” It’s a tough job…

Posted in National Theatre Richard Bean Theatre West End

Re-review: Great Britain, Theatre Royal Haymarket

“They weren’t lies, they were well researched stories that later turned out not to be true” Just…

Posted in National Theatre Richard Bean Theatre

Review: Great Britain, National Theatre

 “That’s what we do, we destroy lives…but it’s on your behalf, because you like to read about…

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 Arthur Wing Pinero National Theatre Stephen Beresford Theatre

Review: The Magistrate, National Theatre

“It’s the little lies that get you into trouble” Aged 36, the widowed Agatha Posket feared for…

Posted in Digital Film Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Digital Theatre

“Can the world buy such a jewel?” Well you can now buy a copy of Josie Rourke’s…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre

Review: Much Ado About Nothing, Wyndham’s Theatre

“Man is a giddy thing and that is my conclusion” Marking Josie Rourke’s first major piece of…