Posted in Uncategorized on 29/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Review of the Globe on Tour production of Henry VI: Three Plays. Unfortunately it’s reviewed at Bath, indoors at the end of a summer of touring which included several outdoor shows. We saw all three plays in a day, under their original Elizabethan titles: Harry The sixth, The Houses of York and Lancaster, The True tragedy of The Duke of York. Only in 1623 did they get retitled Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3.
Posted in Uncategorized on 29/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Review of Lope de Vega’s Punishment Without Revenge (FOLLOW LINK) at Bath’s Ustinov Studios, part of the Spanish Golden Age season.
Posted in Uncategorized on 26/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
I’ve added a copy of my review of “The Beautiful Old” album (REVIEW LINKED) from The Band website here. This is a truly wonderful album, curating songs from 100 years ago in modern versions by major artists such as Richard Thompson, Graham Parker, Christine Collister and Garth Hudson.
Posted in Uncategorized on 24/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Review of What Maisie Knew added to the Films section. An excellent, well-constructed, beautifully written and acted movie, updating the Henry James story to the modern day, with Maisie’s mother as a rock star.
Posted in Uncategorized on 21/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
The Old Vic production looks great on paper: Mark Rylance directing James Earl Jones and Vanessa Redgrave in Much Ado About Nothing at the Old Vic (see link). The result is one of the dullest, most misguided Shakespeare plays I’ve ever seen.
Posted in Uncategorized on 21/09/2013| 1 Comment »
Review of the Globe Theatre production of a Midsummer Night’s Dream 2013 added. A great production, seen just six days after the Grandage production.
Posted in Uncategorized on 14/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Link to my review of the Michael Grandage production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, with Sheridan Smith as Titania and David Walliams as Bottom.
Posted in Uncategorized on 02/09/2013| Leave a Comment »
Review of Reds 2 added (linked here). It’s a generic shoot-em-up with the best actors Hollywood can buy slumming it for the money. But Malkovitch, Parker and Willis are funny.
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