Tag: Simon Markey

Posted in LGBTQ+ TV

TV Review: Gentleman Jack Series 2

Suranne Jones is once again titanically good in Series 2 of Gentleman Jack, though I do wish…

Posted in Agatha Christie TV

TV Review: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Directed by Hugh Laurie, Agatha Christie adaptation Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? is an diverting bit of…

Posted in Blanche McIntyre Film

Film Review: The Hippopotamus (2017)

I find The Hippopotamus unbearable, despite Roger Allam doing his utmost with Stephen Fry’s words “I’m sorry…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Tony Kushner

Review: The Visit or The Old Lady Comes to Call, National Theatre

Any opportunity to see Lesley Manville on stage should be taken but The Visit or The Old…

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20 shows to look forward to in 2020

I look ahead to some of the 2020 shows exciting me most with an emphasis away from…

Posted in Blogged Gary Owen Lucy Kirkwood Moira Buffini National Theatre News Richard Bean Richard Brinsley Sheridan Shakespeare Theatre Tony Kushner

News: new productions and casting updates for the National Theatre

Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor headline a new production of Romeo and Juliet, while Callum Scott Howells…

Posted in Richmond Theatre Theatre West End

Review: The Dresser, Richmond/Duke of York’s

“Hate the critics? I have nothing but compassion for them. How can one hate the crippled, the…

Posted in George Bernard Shaw National Theatre Theatre

Can’t Be Fecked With A Review: Man and Superman, National Theatre

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the…

Posted in Ivan Turgenev Old Vic Theatre

Review: Fortune’s Fool, Old Vic

“Oh, my dears…there’s more fun to be had here than at the theatre” A sense of duty…