Tag: Samuel Barnett

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Film Review: Jupiter Ascending / Seventh Son, or ‘What you had to do to win an Oscar in 2014’

“What in the hell is going on?”  It could just be a matter of coincidence but it does…

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Radio Review: Denmark Hill / Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight / The Day We Caught The Train

“I have to write an essay on Shakespeare’s view of the family, it’s a bugger” Denmark Hill is…

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Film Review: Mrs Henderson Presents (2005)

 “I’m bored with widowhood” As the aristocratic Lady Conway, Thelma Barlow’s amusing run through the options open…

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68th Tony Award nominations

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play  Samuel Barnett – Twelfth Night as Viola Bryan…

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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…

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Review – A Larkin Double, Radio 4

“His impulse is to run away, but there’s nowhere to run to” Philip Larkin is well known…

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Winners of the 2013 What’s On Stage Awards

THE DIGITAL THEATRE BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY WINNER – Sheridan Smith – Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic…

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2013 What’s On Stage Award nominations

THE DIGITAL THEATRE BEST ACTRESS IN A PLAY Sheridan Smith – Hedda Gabler at the Old Vic Billie Piper…

Posted in Shakespeare Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Review: Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s Globe

“And all is semblative a woman’s part” Mark Rylance’s much-trumpeted double-bill return to Shakespeare’s Globe this summer…