Tag: Paul Jesson

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Lockdown TV Review: Spooks Series 3

It’s all change at Thames House as Series 3 of Spooks sees the original core team leave…

Posted in Books Kenneth Branagh Photos Theatre

Book review: The Half – Simon Annand

The Half – Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage by Simon Annand Just a quickie for…

Posted in Film John Logan Shakespeare

Film Review: Coriolanus (2011)

“What would you have, you curs that like nor peace nor war?” Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave…

Posted in Musicals TV

TV Review: The Sound of Music Live

  “It’s quite different after you’ve grown up” The hills are alive, with the sound of questions….

Posted in David Hare Hampstead Theatre Theatre

Review: The Moderate Soprano, Hampstead Theatre

“The people of Tunbridge Wells seemed strangely indifferent to Parsifal” Urgh. The presence of national treasures Nancy…

Posted in Broadway David Hare Kander + Ebb Lin-Manuel Miranda Musicals Not-London Outer Critics Circle Awards Penelope Skinner Peter Morgan Simon Stephens Stephen Adly Guirgis Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre awards

Nominations for 2014-2015 Outer Critics Circle Awards

John Gassner Playwriting Award (Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright) Ayad Akhtar, The…

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 Not-London RSC Theatre UK

Review: Wolf Hall/Bring Up The Bodies, Swan Theatre

“He needs to be on the side of the light” Hilary Mantel became the first woman to…

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Cast of Bring Up The Bodies