Tag: Nigel Cooke
DVD Review: Macbeth (2001)
“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” Gregory Doran’s production of Macbeth for…
TV Review: Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands Episode 1
“Some people say that heroes are born and some that they’re made” As Da Vinci’s Demons draws…
TV Review: Wolf Hall
“By the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus” Peter Straughan’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall and…
The 2013 Manchester Theatre Awards nominations
Best Actor David Birrell, Sweeney Todd, Royal Exchange Kenneth Branagh, Macbeth, Manchester International Festival, St Peter’s Church…
TV Review: Luther Series 2
“They’ve set up a new unit” Series 1, and particularly episode 1, of Luther has to rank…
Review: Bérénice, Donmar Warehouse
“Like sands through the hourglass…” The quote above is not actually from Alan Hollinghurst’s new version of…
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…
Review: Henry V, Shakespeare’s Globe
“Must I bite?” Marking the final entry in the Globe to Globe festival is the UK with…
DVD Review: She Stoops to Conquer, Out of Joint/NT
“My chief aim is to take my gentleman off his guard” This DVD of the 2003 Out…
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