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TV Review: Small Island

“This island is too small if you have big dreams” Andrea Levy’s 2004 novel Small Island was…

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TV Review: Luther, Series 3

 “You assert this fabulous moral conscience John, this adherence to unwritten law” Despite finding Ruth Wilson’s performance…

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TV Review: Luther Series 2

“They’ve set up a new unit” Series 1, and particularly episode 1, of Luther has to rank…

Posted in Readings The Other Palace Theatre Timberlake Wertenbaker

Not-a-Review: Jefferson’s Garden, St James Theatre

“I wonder how I will make the potatoes understand” Just a quickie to cover the last of…

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DVD Review: The Canterbury Tales (2)

“I was meant to do the world a service” Watching the 2003 adaptations of The Canterbury Tales…

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Review: Love and Information, Royal Court

“What do you mean when you say it has meaning now?”  One of the things I love…

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TV Review: The Line of Beauty

“So what are you doing about sex just now?” As a young gay, reading Alan Hollinghurst novels…

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TV Preview: Sinbad

“Are you running to, or from, something?” I’ve never been to the cinema to watch a TV…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Katie Mitchell Simon Stephens Theatre

Review: The Trial of Ubu, Hampstead Theatre

“Maybe the only thing we’re obliged to do…is think the unthinkable” One always knows that when Katie…