Tag: Paul Jesson

Posted in Caryl Churchill Royal Court Theatre

Review: Love and Information, Royal Court

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

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: All or Nothing (2002)

“Love, it’s like a dripping tap” First up was 2002’s All or Nothing, though it was a…

Posted in Film Mike Leigh

Film Review: Vera Drake (2004)

“She’s gonna get herself in trouble one of these days” I’m pretty sure that Vera Drake was…

Posted in National Theatre Nicholas Wright Theatre

Review: Travelling Light, National Theatre

“I don’t like it when he calls it a movie” Perhaps I am more ignorant of Jewish…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Mike Bartlett Radio Plays Theatre

Review: Cock, Radio 3

”You want your boyfriend’s help with the woman you’re sleeping with” I don’t listen to the radio…

Posted in Donmar Warehouse Shakespeare Theatre

Review: King Lear, Donmar Warehouse

 “The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what we feel, not what we ought…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Mike Bartlett Royal Court Theatre

Review: Cock, Royal Court

“Maybe you’re the most complicated sexual being that ever existed” Staged in the round upstairs at the…

Posted in Old Vic Shakespeare Theatre

Review: The Winter’s Tale, Bridge Project at the Old Vic

Accompanying The Cherry Orchard as part of the Bridge Project’s first run of plays which arrived at…

Posted in Anton Chekhov Bridge Project Old Vic Theatre Tom Stoppard

Review: The Cherry Orchard, Bridge Project at the Old Vic

The Bridge Project is a rather ambitious venture: an Anglo-American theatre company formed specially for three years…