Tag: Nicola Sloane

Posted in Chichester Festival Theatre Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Strife, Minerva

  “There is only one way of treating men, with the iron hand … yield one demand…

Posted in Musicals Not-London Sheffield Theatres Theatre UK

Review: Flowers for Mrs Harris, Crucible

“There is more to life than you ever knew, than you ever dreamed,” Sheffield feels the right…

Posted in Film LGBTQ+ Lucinda Coxon

Film Review: The Danish Girl (2015)

“Is there something you’d like to tell me? ‘Is there something you’d like to know’” Though it…

Posted in Film Moira Buffini Musicals Theatre

Film Review: London Road (2015)

“Everybody’s very very nervous” The theatrical production of London Road was a major success for the National…

Posted in Film

Film Review: The Theory of Everything (2014)

“One simple, elegant equation to explain everything” Alongside The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything offers a double whammy of…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Mr Turner (2014)

“There’s no room for cynicism in the reviewing of art” One might equally say there’s no room…

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 Film Musicals Theatre

Film Review: Les Misérables (2012)

“Life has dropped you at the bottom of the heap” For many people, myself included, it is…

Posted in Musicals Not-London Sheffield Theatres Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK

Review: My Fair Lady, Crucible

“Men are so decent, such regular chaps” ‘Tis a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged that…