15 August 2015 London Thespian totty du jour Benedict Cumberbatch is the latest high-profile actor to play Hamlet in a … More
Category: Theatre
I Dreamed of Kate
25 September 2014 London Legendary singer Kate Bush made the Mother of All Comebacks with her live show Before the … More
Where The Wild Things Were
12 September 2014 London This month, Allen Hall Theatre, my university’s resident theatre teaching and performance space, celebrates its centenary. … More
Once When We Were In Love
26 June 2014 London In which I see the charming and quietly heartbreaking Once: the Musical and weep like a child for … More
The Thrill of the Lash
23 June 2014 London Roman Polanski’s film version of Venus In Fur – a sexual tug-of-war between a submissive director and a … More
O Mother, Wherefore Art Thou?
5 May 2014 London Colm Tóibín’s electrifying novella The Testament of Mary reimagines the Gospels from Mary’s point of view. The stage version, … More
Lear, Here and There
13 February 2014 London/Invercargill Two productions of King Lear in three weeks – one at the National Theatre in London and one … More
Unsweet Home Oklahoma
Friday 24 January 2014 London August: Osage County, Tracy Letts’ celebrated play about family discord on the Oklahoma plains, makes it … More
Till Death Do Us Part
4 November 2013 London Two plays on the London stage – Joanna Murray-Smith’s Scenes From A Marriage and Alexi Kaye-Campbell’s The Pride – put … More
Leaving the Doll’s House
18 August 2013 London A wonderful new production of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House coincides with my watching Danish TV drama Borgen, … More
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