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O’ Lucky Man!

O’ Lucky Man!

1973


Directed By Lindsay Anderson
Written by David Sherwin
Based on an original idea by Malcolm McDowell
Cinematography – Miroslav Ondricek
Music by Alan Price

It may be 1973, but it goes in the 60s Retrospective series.
That’s because it’s a (kind of) sequel to If …. (linked)

CAST:

Malcolm McDowell – Mick Travis / Coffee plantation thief
Ralph Richardson – Sir James Burgess / Monty
Rachel Roberts – Gloria Rowe / Madame Palliard / Mrs Richards
Arthur Lowe – Mr Duff / Mayor Johnson / Dr Munda.
Helen Mirren – Patricia Burgess / Casting Assistant
Graham Crowden – Stewart / Professor Millar / Meths drinker
Peter Jeffrey – Factory chairman / Prison governor
Christine Noonan – coffee factory worker / Mavis in nightspot
Dandy Nichols – tea lady / neighbour
Mona Washbourne – Neighbour / court usher / Sister Hallett
Phillip Stone – Jenkins / Interrogator / Salvation Army Major
Mary Macleod – Mary Ball / Vicar’s wife / Salvationist
Michael Bangerter – William / Interrogator / Assistant / Prisoner
Wallas Eaton- John Stone (coffee factory) / Colonel Steiger / Prison warder / meths drinker / film executive
Warren Clarke – Master of Ceremonies at nightspot / Warner / Male Nurse
Michael Medwin – army captain / power station technician / Duke of Belminster
Geoffrey Palmer – Examination doctor / Basil Keyes
Anthony Nicholls- general, judge
Brian Glover – Plantation foreman / Power station guard
Jeremy Bulloch- Sports car driver / Sandwichboard man
Bill Owen – Superintendent Barlow / Inspector Carding
David Daker- policeman at accident/ man at party / Munda’s servant / policeman
Edward Peel / policeman at accident / Power station guard / Policeman in court
Geoffrey Chater bishop, vicar
Ben Aris -Mr Macintyre / Dr Hyder / Flight lieutenant
James Bolam – Attenboough / Examination doctor
Anna Dawkins- Becky
Brian Pettifer- Biles
Hugh Thomas – Mr Greasy (coffee factory) and as prisoner and as hopeful at audition
Ian Leake- Streaky (roadie)
Lindsay Anderson – as ‘film director’
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Alan Price- keyboards, vocals
Colin Green – guitar
Dave Markee- bass guitar
Clive Thacker- drums

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I’ve been wanting to do O’ Lucky Man! for a long time, what with If …. being one of our all-time best movies. After doing the If …. review I even found our VHS tape and linked up a VHS machine to an older TV, but the quality was too poor by modern standards. For many years (between 2009 and 2020) there seemed no in-print DVD. Then in mid-2020 it was reprinted and its in excellent quality. I’m still not sure why they need to break it into two DVDs, each with lots of extras rather than a film DVD and an extras DVD as normal. It is three hours long though and a break is welcome.

The film was based on Malcolm McDowell’s own experiences as a coffee salesman. It appears that Anderson had wanted to make a film about Alan Price touring which collapsed so the two ideas were combined. Five years had passed, during which Malcolm McDowell had starred as Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

The central character played by McDowell, carries on from If …. as Mick Travis. The cast take multiple roles. Several of them had appeared in If … and they appear to reflect that in their new characters, so that Peter Jeffrey, the headmaster in If …. is always an authority figure, first the factory chairman then the prison governor. Geoffrey Chater, the militaristic chaplain in If … plays a bishop, then a vicar. Mona Washbourne, the matron in If … plays the hospital sister. Graham Crowden, the eccentric history master becomes the crazed scientist Professor Millar then the suicidal Professor Stewart. Ben Aris, the inept new teacher joins Travis as a salesman. Christine Noonan who was “the girl” in If …. appears twice, once on the coffee production line, and once in the strip club scene. Mary MacLeod, Mrs Kemp, the housemaster’s wife in If …. who likes to walk naked through empty dormitories, becomes the randy landlady Mrs Ball, then the breastfeeding vicar’s wife. Arthur Lowe, as Mr Kemp, the housemaster in if …. starts in a similar role in the factory then … well, see the plot summary.

Two from If …. stay in the same roles throughout … Biles (Brian Pettifer), the younger boy who was bullied and rescued by Travis, and Denson (Hugh Thomas), the priggish prefect. They’re with Travis in the coffee factory, in prison and in the final audition scene. Biles keeps his name, though “Denson” is called Mr Greasy in the coffee factory. I’m sure we’re meant to see them as their If …. characters.

The film is an allegory on Imperial Britain, and very far from a subtle one either.

The time scale

I guess it’s 1973. I’d forgotten its date, and thought it earlier. I noticed that Mick Travis’ car, a Ford Anglia Estate, is 1965 (C reg.) The latest car you see is a J reg (1971). I’m not a registration nerd, but a friend had one of the last Ford Anglias built, so I know they’d stopped making them in 1967. A budget 1965 sales reps car in 1973? In those days it would have been rusting and knackered at eight years old. I also had the feeling that the storyline takes place only a year or so after If ….

Does it move deliberately backwards? At the start people discuss an imminent Christmas, then after Travis escapes the military camp, we see a harvest festival. He walks away through deciduous trees in full green leaf and walks into the Miller Institute with young trees in Spring bud.

THE PLOT

The film is broken frequently by the Alan Price song sequences and then solid black screens, sometimes with titles (The North, The South) break it up. I’m breaking it up with my own titles.

Coffee plantation

There’s a silent black and white film opening sequence … always annoying on our surround system which seems to need the amplifier waiting several seconds to leap into life. You wonder if it’s going to. “Once Upon a Time” says the title, and we see labourers picking coffee beans while armed overseers swagger about (It looks just like the recent stories about avocado farms in Kenya!). Malcolm McDowell with long moustaches takes a few beans. Title: “Coffee for the Breakfast Table.” He is seen by an overseer and arrested.

Malcolm McDowell as coffee picker

We see a fat magistrate who finds him “Guilty.” The overseer binds McDowell’s wrists to a block. He lifts a machete and chops downward and McDowell gives in a silent scream. The title NOW appears. Clearly nothing will change.

The title sequence is Alan Price in a studio, and the various songs will be interspersed throughout.

Factory

Mr McIntyre (Ben Aris), Travis (Malcolm McDowell), Mr Greasy aka Denson (Hugh Thomas)

The film story opens in the factory of Imperial (geddit) Coffee where Travis is a trainee salesman. With him are Biles and Denson, and Mr McIntyre (the inept If … teacher). They’re being shown the ropes. Coffee is brought from Nigeria, packed and sent back to Nigeria. Travis is sycophantically eager to please, and the best able of the group to SMILE when shaking hands … this will be a circle to the very end. He sees the “girl” from If …. on the packing line and tries to start chatting.

Peter Jeffrey as the Company Chairman with happy coffee picker painting

The women are after young Mick, including his tutor. An address by the chairman is interrupted by news that an area salesman has “deserted” and fled. Travis is chosen to take the job … it would normally take years. So he is appointed rep for the Northeast.

The accident

On a foggy road, a sports car roars past him and disappears in a bank of fog. There’s a crash … it has hit a van full of groceries. Travis finds the driver, dying. The van’s contents are strewn over the road. Two policemen arrive. They don’t need a witness, they say, he should clear off. He starts to argue and they threaten to arrest him for manslaughter … our word against yours. He decides to go … they present him with a biscuit barrel from the van. As he drives off, they start filling the boot of the police car with the groceries. i.e. looting. Police corruption and lies.

Salesman

Mary MacLeod as Mrs Ball, the landlady

Travis drives north and arrives at the guest house where his predecessor lived. He still has a drawer full of stuff in the room. Travis never finds out what happened to him. Mrs Ball the landlady is set on seduction. Travis heaves boxes of coffee into corner shops, finally getting to a grand hotel. The manager is Mayor Johnson (Arthur Lowe). Johnson asks him if he’ll continue the usual arrangements as with his predecessor. Travis is eager to agree.

Johnson: You’ll be replacing your previous colleague … Sad business that. Still, I take it the arrangements will be … as were.

ASIDE: Early 70s. Just about when I saw the film first. I was put in charge of tape purchasing for the group of ELT schools I worked at … we had multiple language laboratories and went through cassettes by the hundred. I contacted the shop that supplied them to buy 1000, and had that same question, ‘Are we continuing the usual arrangement?’ I asked what it was, and it was about a week’s wages in cash per order. The cassettes were way over-priced too. Being young and honest, I went straight to my managing director and told him. We switched to buy direct from the manufacturer at about one third less per cassette. When the manufacturer’s rep delivered them, he added a box of a dozen, ‘For you. A little gift.’ I put them straight in the general stock. Sweeteners were rife at that time. I remember bells ringing when I first saw it.

So this is the corruption sequence. Johnson takes Travis to a private club. He meets a police superintendent who has “the girl” (Christine Noonan) on his knee. She is introduced as Mavis.

Bill Owen as Superintendent Barlow, Christine Noonan as Mavis

Another woman sits on Travis’ knee. The whisky is flowing. They’re watching a porn film involving a Santa. Then the strip begins, with everyone chanting ‘Chocolate sandwich!’ Travis joins in.

‘Chocolate sandwich!’ Arthur Lowe as Mayor Johnson

Two girls and an Afro-Caribbean man. I thought it looked like Bony M (but with two white girls) until they all undressed and started writhing on the stage. The penny dropped … chocolate sandwich.

Travis staggers back to his guest house with a case of Bells whisky … the sweetener … to find Mrs Ball in his bed. The next morning he has a phone call … he has to go to Scotland.

Ralph Richardson as Monty, Malcolm McDowell as Travis

His neighbour in the guest house, Monty (Ralph Richardson) presents him with a gold lamé suit he has made. Travis sets off.

The power station

Or is it a secret military installation? Travis imagines he’s going to get an order for coffee. He is immediately grabbed at the gate, beaten about and dragged in for interrogation and forced to sign a ‘confession’ (which includes stating his headmaster was right to expel him, for an If … link).

The interrogation

While this is going on the tea lady drifts in and out in a pink overall and pinny (Dandy Nichols). There is an alarm and everyone runs out … the tea lady releases him and he joins them. There’s an explosion, he reaches the gate, his car catches fire and explodes.

He is running up and down ash covered slopes with burning trees. The ash slope was Pasolini’s Theorem perhaps!

Secret military Imperial shenanigans, then.

The church

Travis has rescued his gold suit from his burning car. He finds his way to a church in open countryside, where a Harvest Festival service is in progress.

Geoffrey Chater as the vicar (he was the chaplain in If …)

He faints in a pew and wakes. He sees the harvest festival bread and goes to eat it. The vicar’s wife (Mary MacLeod who was Mrs Ball) stops him. She has a baby and two kids. She sends the kids out and breastfeeds the starving Travis. I’m starting to note the film history bits … that’s the ending of The Grapes of Wrath novel, but John Ford wasn’t able to put it in the film version.

The vicar’s wife sends the kids to escort Travis to the main road.

The Millar Institute

Travis hitch-hikes. A limousine picks him up asks him if he wants to earn £100. They drive him to the Millar Institute. Travis tries to negotiate more … he gets hooked up for lots of tests.

Graham Crowden as Professor Millar (the mad history teacher in If ….)

Millar: Now, I would just like you to sign this release form.
Travis: I hereby consent to lease the Millar Research Clinic all physical experimental rights in my body for one week for the sum of £100.” Well, I’d like to help Professor Millar, but £150 is definitely my minimum price.

The professor tells them to sedate him, but Travis only pretends to be asleep. He creeps out and finds someone shuddering in a room … he lifts up the sheets. The man’s head has been attached to a sheep’s body. Travis escapes, leaping through the glass of an an upstairs window.

On the road with the band

Travis escapes on a push-bike but is driven off the road by a group van. This is Alan Price and group on their way back to London.

Alan Price as … er … Alan Price … welcomes Travis on board

The van is a Commer with a camper conversion, so with only the band, not their gear. Hmm. The Commer was indeed the standard British group transport at one time. Once the Ford Transit arrived in 1965, the Commer with its narrow wheelbase and wonky handling fast fell out of favour. I can’t see any band, however poor and amateur, using it in 1973. They put Travis in the back seat where he finds Patricia (Helen Mirren) lying down. Yet another female attracted to Travis. I love the band members playing chess on the table in the van. Yeah, right.

Helen Mirren as Patricia, the rich hippy

Back in London at the band’s flat, Travis wakes to find the bed empty. He is told that Patricia is on the roof, as she is painting the chimneys with Om symbols. She offers him champagne for breakfast and explains that daddy is extremely rich.

Helen Mirren as Patricia

He asks where she got the champagne … from home, she replies.

Patricia:  Daddy owns so much that he rarely misses anything.
Travis: You’re lucky. I’ve got to get there on my own.
Patricia:  And where?
Travis: Right to the top!
(pointing to a skyscraper in the distance]
Travis: How much is a building like that worth?
Patricia: The ground rent is £810,000 a year; it cost ten times that to build, and every three years its value increases by 20%.
Travis: How do you know?
Patricia: My father owns it
.

Sir James Burgess & Zingara

Travis visits her father on the pretext of rescuing his daughter from a life of sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Sir James (Ralph Richardson) is tied up with Professor Stewart (Graham Crowden) whose life he has ruined and who wants to commit suicide, which he does by leaping out of the skyscraper window holding onto Sir James’ PA, William. They plunge to their deaths. Sir James reads a bland prepared obituary to staff, then they have 15 seconds silence. Travis finds that Sir James now assumes he is the PA.

Travis with Sir James Burgess (Ralph Richardson)

Enter the heavy bit. With a very obvious parallel. They are off to see Dr Munda (Arthur Lowe), the dictator of Zingara. Dr Munda wants them to invest in Zingara and shows a tourist film of beaches and hotels. Sir James wants to know about insurgents and security. Colonel Steiger (Wallace Eaton) gives a talk in a South African accent. He is a mercenary who was successful in “the Congo.”

Col Steiger: … blanket bombardment by artillery and aircraft, followed by landings of airborne policing detachments, employing scorched earth and random elimination techniques. My men are professionals experienced in guerilla warfare. The rebels are amateurs, inexperienced and weak in defence.

They can deal with the rebels but they need “honey”- he shows slides of what “honey” can do. It is napalm. We see horrific real slides of bodies (from Vietnam or Cambodia, in fact). Dr Munda was at Oxford with Sir James. He wants Sir James to secure large supplies of “honey” and then to invest in Zingara tourism.

OK. Easy parallel. The Kennedy family invested heavily in Vietnamese beach real estate in the 1950s. President Diem was a Joseph Kennedy house guest. This is … OK, don’t believe me, but it is … a major cause of the Vietnam war. Zingara is Vietnam … but it is also East Africa specifically. Dr Munda’s assistants are Asian Indian … which fits Uganda under Idi Amin, or Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. The educated Oxford man might fit Tanzania too. Sir James asks how Dr Munda’s brother, Peter is. He was at Oxford with them.

Dr Munda: Peter? In detention alas. I was urged to hang him but for once I was weak.

A very bad idea indeed: Arthur Lowe as Dr Munda

Here we are discovering just why the O’ Lucky Man! DVDs disappeared for years. Lindsay Anderson decided that Arthur Lowe in blackface greasepaint should play Dr Munda. Lowe could play anything, but it is a racist stereotype and an unfortunate casting idea. I imagine the reason was that Arthur Lowe was “rich corrupt politician” having been the mayor in the earlier sequence. Sensibilities about blackface were slight in 1973, but Lowe does look ridiculous.

Travis signs off the napalm

So Travis is dispatched to the RAF base to hand over the paperwork as drums of “honey’ (napalm) are loaded into an RAF aircraft. Our other post-Imperial shame – selling weapons.

French lobby card: the dinner party. Dr Munda checks the gold bars

Back at Sir James’ house there is a dinner party to do the final deal with Dr Munda. Travis is despatched to get a case from the safe. It is full of gold bars. He finds Patricia in embrace with the Duke of Bedminster, her fiance, who flees. She kisses Travis. Back in the dining room he is asked to witness papers. Enter the fraud squad, led by Bill Owen (taking his second police role) and Travis is holding the case of gold.

‘Trust me!’ mouths Sir James. Travis does and is whisked away under arrest.

Justice

In court, Travis is found guilty and sentenced to five years. While awaiting the verdict, the judge goes off for a bit of whipping on his naked back (by Matron … now a court usher). As we know from The Ruling Class by Peter Barnes, judges are all masochistic perverts. More Imperial Britain establishment.

Court usher Mona Washbourne whips the judge, Anthony Nicholls

We cut forward five years. Travis has been a model prisoner, loved by warders and by the warden who gives him a book of poetry on release … but …

Peter Jeffreys is now the Governor

Governor: I’ve sensed the spark of idealism in you and I can move mountains, you know that, hmm. Oh, for a man like you, Travis. Michael, for a boy like you, you’re still young! Everything is possible. The world is your oyster. I can see you stripped, building motorways. You have eyes like Steve McQueen. Did anyone ever tell you that?

He kisses Travis on the forehead.

Biles and Denson are released along with him. Travis is now a humanist, a do-gooder, giving money to the Salvation Army while being robbed by down and outs (Denson – Hugh Thomas again).

He makes a daring attempt to get through an upstairs window and persuade a young mother not to kill herself.

He helps in a soup kitchen … and takes soup to the down and outs, who include Patricia and the Duke of Bedminster. I love the graffiti: Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

The meths drinkers attack him and beat him up and roll an oil drum at him.

He wanders through brightly-lit London and sees a sandwich board man with a call for a film audition. Lindsay Anderson is himself playing the director of the film. Biles and Denson are waiting for casting too.

The audition … Biles in front of Travis, Denson next to him

Travis is given various props to hold, including a pile of schoolbooks and a gun. When asked to smile Mick continually asks why (remember he was the best smiler at the start). Anderson slaps Travis hard with his script book . A slow look of understanding crosses Mick’s face.

Schoolbooks? A gun? This was the audition for If …. then. He will be a star.

The end scene is the classic Shakespeare theatre ending … a dancing party which includes the entire cast.

CRITICS

The Anderson/Sherwin/McDowell trilogy that began with If…. and concluded with Britannia Hospital (1982), all three films featuring McDowell as an everyman named Mick Travis. Despite the shared name, he isn’t really the same character and the stories aren’t sequential; they do however jointly illustrate, through fantasy and comedy, the sobering reality of how our institutions succeed in squelching all that is best in us. Remarkably, the derangement infecting the larger world Travis discovers looked to my 18-year-old eyes like satiric, paranoid excess, but now that I’ve arrived at the age Anderson himself was when he made the film, the same derangement disconcertingly resembles daily life as I often perceive it. It’s the film’s triumph that Travis’ entanglements with monsters here don’t turn him into one; nowhere else in cinema will you find such a bleak worldview infused with such infectious, ebullient, indomitable joy, attentive to the magical propensities of life even when at its darkest.
Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound

O Lucky Man! is a colossally weird film, but at the same time it’s so deliberate and formal that it lacks the abandon of, say, a proper Ken Russell phantasmagoria. It’s simultaneously insane and tame.
Peter Hanson: Every 70s Movie site

Overall

When we saw this in 1973 I went with the highest expectations, because of If …. I was disappointed, and the VHS tape in 1993 reinforced the feeling that it was too long, too disjointed and suffered from the reality / absurdity interface. Sometimes, the absurd in British comedy tries so hard it falls over itself. In recent years I’ve listened to The Goons and watched classic Monty Python and the years have eroded what was once hilarious into something just silly. O’ Lucky Man was mixing real with the odd excursion into the absurd. Watching it now, it has worked far better than I originally thought. Perhaps we’re more experienced with that line between real and fantasy.

Perhaps we couldn’t take our rebel Mick Travis from If …. becoming a sycophantic, career-focussed product of capitalism, but the film skewers aspect after aspect of Britain’s post-Imperial hangovers, and does so well. It also contrasts the Sir James Burgess vast wealth with the poverty of London in the final sequences.

The Zingara sequences would have been so effective, even today, if not for the disastrous idea of putting Arthur Lowe in blackface which is just too uncomfortable for a 2020 audience. He won Best Supporting Actor in the 1973 BAFTAs for it too.

So much better than I remembered, and also the number of times that I’ve seen If …. caused interest as each actor re-appeared. Another thing, my recent reviews of A Very Peculiar Practice had me focussing much more on Graham Crowden. Helen Mirren, who we wouldn’t have thought about in 1973, is superb.

SOUNDTRACK

Alan Price won the BAFTA for Best Soundtrack, and was a Golden Globe nominee for the soundtrack. He wrote and sang every song. I was dubious about the ancient Commer van in that by 1973, Alan Price was so well-known, apart from so many hits with The Animals, solo and with Georgie Fame, he was appearing weekly with Georgie Fame on The Two Ronnies TV show. He went on to act the lead himself in Alfie Darling in 1975.

Alan Price had championed Randy Newman’s songs in the UK, recording several. The influence here is strong, especially on Poor People I’ve had the album for years, not that I bought it new.

Inner gatefold, right side. Better photos than most sites!

TRACKS
O Lucky Man
Poor People
Sell Sell
Pastoral
Arrival
LookOver Your Shoulder
Justice
My Home Town
Changes
O Lucky Man

SEE ALSO”

If …. (1968)

THE 60s REVISITED REVIEWS …

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The Six Five Special (1958)
Beat Girl (1960)
A Taste of Honey (1961)
The Young Ones (1962
Some People (1962)
Play It Cool (1962)
Summer Holiday (1963)
Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Fast Lady (1963)
What A Crazy World (1963)
Live It Up! (1963)
Just For You (1964)
The Chalk Garden (1964)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Wonderful Life (1964)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965)
Gonks Go Beat (1965)
The Party’s Over (1965)
Cat Ballou (1965)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Darling (1965)
The Knack (1965)
Catch Us If You Can (1965)
Help! (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966)
Alfie (1966)
Harper (aka The Moving Target) 1966
The Chase (1966)
The Trap (1966)
Georgy Girl (1966)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Nevada Smith (1966)
Modesty Blaise (1966)
The Family Way (1967)
Privilege (1967)
Blow-up (1967)
Accident (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name (1967)
How I Won The War (1967)
Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
Poor Cow (1967)
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush (1968)
The Magus (1968)
If …. (1968)
Girl On A Motorcycle (1968)
The Bofors Gun (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (aka The Devil’s Bride) (1968)
Work Is A Four Letter Word (1968)
The Party (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Barbarella (1968)The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Bullitt (1968)Deadfall (1968)
The Swimmer (1968)
Theorem (Teorema) (1968)
Medium Cool (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1970)
Performance (1970)
Oh’ Lucky Man! (1973)

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      • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
      • Gravity 3D
      • Greed
      • Hail Caesar!
      • Hanna
      • High Rise
      • Horrible Bosses
      • Hostiles
      • House of Gucci
      • How To Build A Girl
      • How To Train Your Dragon
      • Inception
      • Inside Llewyn Davis
      • Inside Out
      • Invictus
      • Jane Eyre
      • Jason Bourne
      • Jersey Boys
      • Joy
      • Jurassic World
      • Jurassic World: Dominion
      • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
      • King Charles III – TV version
      • Knight and Day
      • La La Land
      • Lady Chatterley’s Lover
      • Les Misérables
      • Little Joe
      • Love and Mercy
      • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
      • Made in Dagenham
      • Mank
      • Marie-Antoinette
      • Misbehaviour
      • Missing Link
      • Mothering Sunday
      • Mr Turner
      • Mr. Holmes
      • Much Ado About Nothing (2013)
      • Munich – The Edge of War
      • Narvik
      • Nebraska
      • News of The World
      • Nightwatching
      • Noah
      • Nomadland
      • Once Were Brothers
      • One Day
      • Operation Mincemeat
      • Our Man in Havana
      • Outlander
      • Outlander season 6
      • Paddington
      • ParaNorman
      • Passengers
      • Passing
      • Peterloo
      • Philomena
      • Puss in Boots
      • Rebecca
      • Reds 2
      • Respect
      • Rocketman
      • Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
      • Saving Mr Banks
      • See How They Run
      • Selma
      • Sex Education (Netflix)
      • Sex, Chips and Rock ‘n’ Roll
      • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
      • Shrek Forever After
      • Shutter Island
      • Source Code
      • Star Trek Into Darkness
      • Star Wars: The Force Awakens
      • Star Wars: The Last Jedi
      • Suite Française
      • Summer in February
      • Tangled!
      • Testament of Youth
      • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
      • The Banshees of Inisherin
      • The Book of Life 3D
      • The Book Thief
      • The Conspirator
      • The Debt
      • The Deep Blue Sea
      • The Dig
      • The Disaster Artist
      • The Duke
      • The English
      • The Father
      • The Five-Year Engagement
      • The French Dispatch
      • The Frightened City
      • The Girl On The Train
      • The Girl Who Played With Fire
      • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
      • The Grand Budapest Hotel
      • The Great Gatsby
      • The Greatest Showman
      • The Help
      • The Highwaymen
      • The History Man
      • The Imitation Game
      • The Irishman
      • The Iron Lady
      • The Joy of Six
      • The Jungle Book (2016)
      • The King’s Man
      • The Life of Pi
      • The Look of Love
      • The Lost Daughter
      • The Man In The Hat
      • The Midnight Sky
      • The Phantom of The Open
      • The Power of The Dog
      • The Prom
      • The Railway Man
      • The Salisbury Poisonings (TV series)
      • The Secret Garden
      • The Theory of Everything
      • The Trial of The Chicago Seven
      • The Wolf of Wall Street
      • Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
      • tick, tick … BOOM!
      • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
      • To Olivia
      • War for the Planet of the Apes
      • West Side Story (2021)
      • What Maisie Knew
      • Widows
      • Wild Mountain Thyme
      • Wild Target
      • Wolf Hall TV Series
      • World on Fire
      • Yesterday
    • Film – the 60s retrospectives
      • A Hard Day’s Night
      • A Taste of Honey (1961)
      • Accident
      • Alfie (1966)
      • Barbarella (1968)
      • Be My Guest
      • Beat Girl
      • Blow-up
      • Bonnie and Clyde
      • Bullitt (1968)
      • Cat Ballou
      • Catch Us If You Can
      • Custer of The West
      • Darling
      • Deadfall (1968)
      • Doctor Zhivago
      • Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
      • Far From The Madding Crowd (1967)
      • Georgy Girl
      • Girl On A Motorcycle
      • Gonks Go Beat
      • Harper (aka The Moving Target)
      • Help!
      • Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush
      • How I Won The War
      • I’ll Never Forget What’s ‘Is Name
      • If ….
      • Just For You
      • Little Fauss & Big Halsy
      • Live It Up!
      • Medium Cool
      • Modesty Blaise (1966)
      • Morgan – A Suitable Case For Treatment
      • Nevada Smith
      • O’ Lucky Man!
      • Performance
      • Petulia
      • Play It Cool
      • Poor Cow
      • Privilege
      • Six-Five Special
      • Some People
      • Sparrows Can’t Sing
      • Summer Holiday
      • Take A Girl Like You
      • Ten Little Indians
      • The Bofors Gun
      • The Carpetbaggers
      • The Chalk Garden (1964)
      • The Chase (1966)
      • The Devil Rides Out
      • The Family Way
      • The Fast Lady
      • The Ipcress File
      • The Knack … and how to get it
      • The Magic Christian
      • The Magus
      • The Party (1968)
      • The Party’s Over
      • The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
      • The Small World of Sammy Lee
      • The Swimmer (1968)
      • The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
      • The Trap
      • The Yellow Rolls-Royce
      • The Young Ones
      • Theorem (Teorema)
      • Tom Jones
      • What A Crazy World
      • Wonderful Life
      • Work Is A Four Letter Word
    • It was fifty years ago in May …
    • John Wetton Tribute
    • music
      • 45 rpm records …
        • Leon Rosselson
      • Anglicana … and Americana
      • Anti songs
      • Broadside: Bellowhead
      • Concerts
        • 70th Party …
        • ABBA Tribute / BSO
        • Al Stewart
        • Albert Lee
        • Allen Toussaint
        • American Queen Ensemble
        • Andy Williams
        • Animals & Friends / Steve Cropper
        • Art Garfunkel
        • Bap Kennedy
        • Bellowhead 2.2013
        • Bellowhead 2014
        • Bellowhead 2016
        • Bellowhead 7.2013
        • Bellowhead 7.2015
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
        • Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
        • Bob Dylan – 2022
        • Bob Dylan 2002
        • Bob Dylan 2006
        • Bob Dylan 2017
        • Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
        • Brian Wilson
        • BSO: Coming to America
        • BSO: Triumphal Elgar
        • Carole King – Hyde Park
        • Chris Rea
        • Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
        • Cliff Richard 2018
        • Crosby, Stills & Nash
        • Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
        • Don Henley – Hyde Park
        • Dr John
        • Eliza Carthy
        • Emma Swift
        • Emmylou Harris
        • Fay Hield 2013
        • Fay Hield 2014
        • Fay Hield 2016
        • Fleetwood Mac 2003
        • FLIT
        • Garth Hudson 1999
        • Garth Hudson 2007
        • Glen Campbell
        • Glenn Tilbrook
        • Gospel in West Helena
        • Grupo Lokito
        • Hal Wilner Leonard Cohen Project
        • Hall & Oates
        • Ian Felice 2018
        • James Taylor 2014
        • James Taylor, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jimmy Cliff
        • Joan Baez
        • John Cale Paris 1919
        • John Cale, Brighton 2011
        • John Lydon
        • Johnny Flynn, Hyde Park 2018
        • Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings
        • Jonathan Wilson
        • Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and Mingus
        • Joyce Cobb
        • Judy Collins – 2020
        • Judy Collins 2010
        • Judy Collins 2013
        • k.d. lang
        • Kiefer Sutherland
        • King Crimson – 2018
        • KT Tunstall
        • Legends: Joanna Lumley, Twiggy, Lulu
        • Leonard Cohen Aug 2013
        • Leonard Cohen July 2009
        • Leonard Cohen Nov. 2008
        • Leonard Cohen O2 2008
        • Loudon Wainwright III
        • Louise Goffin – Hyde Park
        • Lulu
        • Margo Price
        • Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
        • Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick
        • Michael Kiwanuka – Hyde Park
        • Michelle Shocked 2001
        • Natalie Merchant
        • NKOTB
        • P.P. Arnold 2019
        • Paul Simon & Sting 2015
        • Paul Simon – Hyde Park 2018
        • Paul Simon 2016
        • Paul Simon Nov. 2006
        • Paul Simon Oct. 2000
        • Preston Shannon
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Raghu Dixit
        • Ralph McTell 2016
        • Richard Thompson 2017
        • Rita Coolidge
        • Rodriguez
        • Roger Chapman
        • Roger McGuinn
        • Rufus Wainwright
        • Sam Lee & Friends
        • Sandy Denny Tribute
        • Saving Grace
        • Seth Lakeman 2014
        • Shawn Colvin, Hyde Park Review
        • Simi Stone
        • Simon & Garfunkel 2004
        • Simone Felice – Oct 2015
        • Simone Felice 2011
        • Simone Felice April 2012
        • Simone Felice April 2014
        • Simone Felice July 2013
        • Simone Felice November 2014
        • Simone Felice Sept 2012
        • Simone Felice- Oct 2016
        • Sly & The Family Stone
        • Spiers & Boden 5.13
        • Spiers & Boden, 6.13
        • Spiers and Boden 2014
        • Steeleye Span
        • Suzanne Vega
        • Symphonic Pink Floyd
        • Taj Mahal
        • The Australian Pink Floyd
        • The Band
        • The Bleedin Noses
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2018
        • The Bootleg Beatles 2022
        • The Cactus Blossoms
        • The Civil Wars
        • The Decemberists
        • The Delines
        • The Demon Barbers
        • The Foundations
        • The Full English
        • The Grand Ole Opry
        • The Imagined Village
        • The Manfreds – 2016
        • The Manfreds 2011
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold 2003
        • The Manfreds, P.P. Arnold, Zoot Money, Nov 2016
        • The Mastersons, Hymn For Her
        • The Mavericks
        • The palmer james group
        • The Platters
        • The Searchers
        • The Transports
        • The Unthanks 03.11
        • The Unthanks 04.2012
        • The Unthanks 10.2012
        • The Unthanks 12.11
        • The Unthanks 2.2015
        • The Unthanks 2019
        • The Unthanks 2022
        • The Unthanks 5.2017
        • The Waterboys
        • Thea Gilmore
        • Tom Jones
        • Van Morrison
          • Van Morrison 1998
          • Van Morrison 1999
          • Van Morrison 2000
          • Van Morrison 2001
          • Van Morrison 2002 Jan.
          • Van Morrison 2002 Oct.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Jul.
          • Van Morrison 2003 Sep.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Mar.
          • Van Morrison 2005 Nov.
          • Van Morrison 2007
          • Van Morrison 2012
          • Van Morrison 2013
          • Van Morrison 2019
        • Ward Thomas, Hyde Park
        • Zawinul Syndicate
        • Zoot Money
      • Gigs, venues and prices
      • HMV. His Master’s Voice silenced?
      • Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams
      • Music From Big Pink – 50th anniversary
      • Names, Scribble & Numbers
      • Nancy Sinatra
      • Note of Hope (Woody Guthrie)
      • Phil Everly RIP
      • Rock pictures
      • RoseAnn Fino
      • Shadows In The Night
      • Thank You For The Muzac
      • The Band reviews & pictures
      • The Beautiful Old
      • The Village Green Preservation Society
      • The Weight – covers
      • Twelve Songs For Christmas 2013
    • rants
      • 100 Days Plus and Counting …
      • Driving Me Mad …
      • A Fishy Story
      • A Legal Matter
      • A Post-Brexit Vision
      • Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
      • Allergies … and lawyers
      • Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
      • Barcodes
      • Beaujolais Nouveau …
      • Best of 2011
      • Best of 2012
      • Best of 2013
      • Best of 2014
      • Best of 2015 – music
      • Best of 2015 – Theatre
      • Best of 2016 – Music
      • Best of 2016 – Theatre
      • Best of 2017 – Music
      • Best of 2017 – Screen
      • Best of 2017- Theatre
      • Best of 2018 – Music
      • Best of 2018 – theatre
      • Best of 2019 – Concerts
      • Best of 2019 – Theatre
      • Best of 2019- Music
      • Best of 2020
      • Best of 2020- Music
      • Best of 2022 – Music
      • Best of 2022- Theatre
      • Cars are cars
      • Chorizo is Vile
      • Christmas Markets
      • Christmases long past …
      • Civil Wars & Statues
      • Climate Change: my rant
      • Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
        • Opposition Leader’s Debate, 16 April 2015
      • Crisis at the Cash Register
      • Culture Shock Bourbon Street
      • Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
      • Encounter: Saul Bellow
      • Eurovision 2022
      • Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
      • Flags and anthems
      • Football nicknames
      • Free Broadband in Every Packet!
      • Guilt and innocence
      • Hail, hail, the first of May
      • Howards End is a blur
      • In the April Garden …
      • In The Days of Covid-21
      • In the May Garden
      • Jangle Bells: shopping for Christmas
      • Jumble Sales
      • Land Of My Mother’s
      • London-centric theatre
      • Mail v Guardian
      • Major Brylcreem or My adventures in the CCF
      • Matinees
      • Not an amazing grace
      • On The Road: Information overkill
      • Parent and child spaces
      • Poppies
      • Princely Names
      • Quaint hotels
      • Remember, remember …
      • Secondhand Christmas
      • Shrink wrapping albums
      • Sloppy fiction?
      • Someone will call you back …
      • Sound … and Fury… at The Globe
      • SS-GB – Mumbling soundtracks
      • Supermarket check-outs
      • Surveys
      • Testing in schools
      • The “Poldark” Effect
      • The 2019 watershed?
      • The 70s were crap
      • The Building Behind Me …
      • The Cheerful e-bay seller
      • The Curse of The Crawleys: Downton Abbey Series 10
      • The Decline of Bournemouth
      • The End of Deference …
      • The Famous Five – by Paul F. Newman
      • The four day week?
      • The Great War
      • The Hacking Cough
      • The Long & The Short Of It
      • The March of The Halloumi Fries
      • The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
      • The Stitch Up
      • View From The Queue
      • What happened to car CD players?
      • What’s happened to air travel?
    • stage
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Cheek by Jowl
      • ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore – Wanamaker
      • 8 Hotels
      • A Damsel in Distress
      • A Little Hotel On The Side
      • A Mad World My Masters
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – BBC TV 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Bridge 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Filter 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Globe 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Grandage 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Propellor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2011
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – RSC 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill 2018
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Watermill Tour 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Young Vic
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bath 2016
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Globe 2019
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Headlong
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare
      • A Midsummer Nights Dream – Handspring 2013
      • A Midsummer Night’s Dream RSC 2016 Revisited
      • A Number
      • A Streetcar Named Desire NT Live
      • A Taste of Honey
      • A Very Very Very Dark Matter
      • A View From The Bridge
      • A Woman of No Importance
      • Abigail’s Party 2013
      • Absolute Hell
      • Ah, Wilderness!
      • Albion
      • All My Sons
      • All New People
      • All’s Well That Ends Well – RSC 2013
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- 2018
      • All’s Well That Ends Well- RSC 2022
      • Amadeus – 2014
      • Amadeus – NT 2017
      • American Buffalo
      • An Enemy of The People
      • An Ideal Husband 2018
      • An Ideal Husband- 2014
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2013
      • Antony & Cleopatra – RSC 2017
      • Antony and Cleopatra – Globe
      • Antony and Cleopatra 2012
      • Arcadia
      • Arden of Faversham
      • Around The World in 80 Days
      • As You Like It – Globe 2015
      • As You Like It – Globe 2018
      • As You Like It – National 2015
      • As You Like It – RSC 2019
      • As You Like It RSC 2013
      • Awful Auntie
      • Bakkhai
      • Balletboyz: The Talent
      • Barber Shop Chronicles
      • Bartholomew Fair
      • Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
      • Before The Party
      • Birthday
      • Bitter Wheat
      • Black Comedy
      • Blithe Spirit
      • Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
      • Blood Wedding
      • Blues For An Alabama Sky
      • Boudica
      • Bring Up The Bodies
      • Broken
      • Candida
      • Cardenio
      • Carmen Disruption
      • Caroline or Change
      • Comedy of Errors – Globe
      • Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
      • Comedy of Errors NT 2012
      • Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
      • Communicating Doors
      • Comus
      • Copenhagen
      • Coriolanus – NT Live
      • Coriolanus – RSC
      • Crazy For You
      • Curiosity Shop
      • Cymbeline – RSC
      • Cymbeline – Wanamaker
      • Dancing At Lughnasa
      • Death Of A Salesman
      • Deathtrap
      • Dedication
      • Dido, Queen of Carthage
      • Dinner With Saddam
      • Doctor Faustus
      • Don Carlos
      • Don Juan in Soho
      • Don Quixote
      • Doubt – a parable
      • Dream
      • Dunsinane
      • Echo’s End
      • Educating Rita
      • Edward II
      • Electro Kif
      • Endgame / Rough for Theatre II
      • Eyam
      • Fallen Angels
      • Fantastic Mr Fox
      • Far
      • Farinelli and The King
      • Fences
      • First Light
      • Flare Path
      • Follies
      • For Services Rendered
      • Forests
      • Fortune’s Fool
      • Forty Years On
      • Fracked! Or Please Don’t Use The F-Word.
      • Frankenstein – NT Encore
      • French Without Tears
      • Funny Girl
      • Future Conditional
      • George’s Marvellous Medicine
      • Girl From The North Country
      • God of Carnage
      • Gypsy
      • Hairspray, The Musical
      • Half A Sixpence
      • Hamilton
      • Hamlet – Cumberbatch
      • Hamlet – Globe 2014
      • Hamlet – Maxine Peake
      • Hamlet – NT 2010
      • Hamlet – RSC 2016
      • Hamlet RSC 2013
      • Hamlet- Almeida / BBC 2017
      • Hamlet- Young Vic 2011
      • Hangmen
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own
      • Harlequinade / All On Her Own – review
      • Hay Fever
      • Hecuba
      • Hedda Gabler
      • Hedda Tesman
      • Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 RSC
      • Henry V – 2018
      • Henry V – Jude Law
      • Henry V – RSC 2015
      • Henry VI – Rebellion
      • Henry VI – Wars of The Roses
      • Henry VI: Three plays
      • Hobson’s Choice
      • Hogarth’s Progress
      • Home
      • Home, I’m Darling
      • Hysteria
      • Imogen (Cymbeline) – Globe 2016
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2010
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Suchet, 2015
      • Importance of Being Earnest – Watermill
      • Importance of Being Earnest 2014
      • Importance of Being Earnest- 2018
      • Inala
      • Institute
      • Into The Hoods – Remixed
      • Ivanov
      • Jack Absolute Flies Again
      • Jeeves and Wooster
      • Jerusalem
      • Jerusalem – 2018
      • Jitney
      • John Gabriel Borkman
      • Julius Caesar – Globe 2014
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2012
      • Julius Caesar – RSC 2017
      • Ka
      • King Charles III
      • King John – Globe 2015
      • King John – Rose, 2016
      • King John – RSC 2019
      • King Lear Frank Langella
      • King Lear – Antony Sher, RSC 2016
      • King Lear – Barrie Rutter
      • King Lear – David Haig
      • King Lear – Globe 2017
      • King Lear – McKellen 2017
      • King Lear – Russell-Beale
      • Kiss Me Kate
      • Kunene and The King
      • La Bête
      • Lady Windermere’s Fan
      • Leopoldstadt
      • Life of Galileo
      • Little Shop of Horrors
      • Local Hero
      • Long Day’s Journey Into Night
      • Love
      • Love For Love
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost – 2018
      • Love’s Labour’s Lost- 2016
      • Love’s Labour’s Won
      • Love’s Sacrifice
      • Love, Love, Love
      • Macbeth – Globe 2016
      • Macbeth – McAvoy 2013
      • Macbeth – National Theatre 2018
      • Macbeth – Tara Arts
      • Macbeth – Young Vic
      • Macbeth RSC 2018
      • Macbeth, RSC 2011
      • Macbeth, Watermill 2019
      • Macbeth- Chichester 2019
      • Macbeth- Wanamaker 2018
      • Mack & Mabel
      • Malory Towers
      • Man and Superman
      • Mary Poppins
      • Me and My Girl
      • Measure for Measure – Globe 2015
      • Measure for Measure – Young Vic
      • Measure for Measure RSC 2012
      • Measure For Measure- RSC 2019
      • Medea NT live
      • Miss Julie / Black Comedy
      • Miss Littlewood
      • Mojo
      • Monsieur Popular
      • Mrs Warren’s Profession
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Globe 2017
      • Much Ado About Nothing – NT 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Old Vic 2013
      • Much Ado About Nothing – Rose 2018
      • Much Ado About Nothing – RSC 2014
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Northern Broadsides
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2016
      • Much Ado About Nothing- RSC 2022
      • Much Ado About Nothing- Wyndhams 2011
      • Murder On The Orient Express (stage)
      • Murder, Margaret and Me
      • My Brilliant Friend (play)
      • My Night With Reg
      • Neighbourhood Watch
      • Nell Gwynn
      • Nice Fish
      • No Man’s Land
      • Noises Off
      • Obsession
      • Oklahoma! – Chichester
      • Once
      • One Man, Two Guvnors
      • Othello – Globe 2018
      • Othello – RSC 2015
      • Othello NT 2013
      • Othello- ETT 2018
      • Othello- Wanamaker 2017
      • Othello- Watermill 2022
      • Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
      • Our Man in Havana (musical)
      • People
      • People Like Us
      • Pericles
      • Peter & The Starcatcher
      • Peter and Alice
      • Peter Gynt
      • Peter Pan (pantomime)
      • Peter Pan Goes Wrong
      • Photograph 51
      • Pitcairn
      • Plastic
      • Platonov
      • Playing Cards 1: Spades
      • Plenty
      • POSH
      • Present Laughter – Chichester 2018
      • Present Laughter – Old Vic 2019
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2003
      • Present Laughter- Bath 2016
      • Pressure
      • Private Lives
      • Privates On Parade
      • Punishment Without Revenge
      • Punk Rock
      • Pygmalion
      • Quatermaine’s Terms
      • Queen Anne
      • Quiz – James Graham
      • Racing Demon
      • Ralegh: The Treason Trial
      • Relative Values
      • Richard II – Globe
      • Richard II – RSC
      • Richard III – Almeida
      • Richard III – Apollo 2012
      • Richard III – Freeman
      • Richard III – RSC 2012
      • Richard III – RSC 2022
      • Richard III – Spacey, 2011
      • Robin Hood (panto)
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Romeo & Juliet – Globe 2017
      • Romeo & Juliet – RSC 2018
      • Romeo & Juliet 2014 – Box Clever
      • Romeo & Juliet, Headlong 2012
      • Romeo & Juliet- Branagh 2016
      • Romeo and Juliet – NT, 2021
      • Romeo and Juliet- Globe 2015
      • Romeo and Juliet: Tobacco Factory
      • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
      • Ross
      • Rules for Living
      • Salomé – RSC
      • Same Time, Next Year
      • School nativities
      • Secondary Cause of Death
      • Separate Tables
      • Shakespeare in Love
      • She Stoops To Conquer – Bath 2015
      • She Stoops to Conquer – Rain or Shine
      • Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads
      • Skylight
      • Slava’s Snowshow
      • Snow in Midsummer
      • South Pacific
      • Spring Awakening
      • Stepping Out
      • Strife
      • Swan Lake
      • Sweet Bird of Youth
      • Switzerland
      • Tamburlaine
      • Tangomotion
      • Tartuffe- RSC
      • The Alchemist – RSC
      • The Argument
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane
      • The Beauty Queen of Leenane – 2021
      • The Beaux Stratagem
      • The Birthday Party
      • The Book of Mormon
      • The Broken Heart
      • The Canterbury Tales
      • The Captive Queen
      • The Caretaker
      • The Chalk Garden
      • The Changeling
      • The City Madam
      • The Constant Wife
      • The Country
      • The Country Girls
      • The Country Wife
      • The Cripple of Inishmaan
      • The Crucible, NT 2022
      • The Crucible, Old Vic 2014
      • The Deep Blue Sea – 2019
      • The Deep Blue Sea-NT live, 2016
      • The Doctor
      • The Dresser
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2012
      • The Duchess of Malfi – 2014
      • The Duchess of Malfi – RSC 2108
      • The Entertainer
      • The Famous Five: A New Musical
      • The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich
      • The Ferryman (Acts 2 & 3)
      • The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk
      • The Four Seasons: A Reimagining
      • The Game of Love and Chance
      • The Ghost Train
      • The Height of The Storm
      • The Homecoming
      • The Hot House
      • The Hypochondriac
      • The Hypocrite
      • The Jew of Malta
      • The Knight of The Burning Pestle
      • The Ladykillers
      • The Lie
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore- 2018
      • The Lieutenant of Inishmore-2001
      • The Lock In
      • The Lock In Christmas Carol
      • The Magistrate – NT Live
      • The Magna Carta Plays
      • The Man In The White Suit
      • The Merchant of Venice – Almeida
      • The Merchant of Venice – Globe
      • The Merchant of Venice – RSC
      • The Merry Wives – Northern Broadsides
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – Globe 2019
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor – RSC 2012
      • The Merry Wives of Windsor- RSC 2018
      • The Misanthrope ETT
      • The Miser
      • The Narcissist
      • The Nightingales
      • The Norman Conquests
        • Living Together
        • Round & Round The Garden
        • Table Manners
      • The Odyssey
      • The Painkiller (2016)
      • The Play That Goes Wrong
      • The Play What I Wrote
      • The Price
      • The Provoked Wife
      • The Recruiting Officer
      • The Rehearsal
      • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
      • The Rivals
      • The Roaring Girl
      • The Rover
      • The Ruling Class
      • The School for Scandal
      • The Seagull
      • The Seagull- Chichester
      • The Seven Year Itch
      • The Shoemaker’s Holiday
      • The Silver Tassie
      • The Southbury Child
      • The Spire
      • The Storm
      • The Syndicate
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2012
      • The Taming of The Shrew – RSC 2019
      • The Taming of The Shrew- Globe 2016
      • The Taxidermist’s Daughter
      • The Tempest – Bath Ustinov
      • The Tempest RSC 2012
      • The Tempest RSC 2016
      • The Tempest- Wanamaker
      • The Truth
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- 2018
      • The Two Noble Kinsmen- RSC
      • The Unfriend
      • The Upstart Crow
      • The Wars of The Roses
        • Edward IV
        • Henry VI
        • Richard III
      • The Watsons
      • The Way of The World
      • The Weir
      • The Whale
      • The White Devil – Globe
      • The White Devil – RSC
      • The Winter’s Tale – Branagh
      • The Winter’s Tale – Cheek by Jowl
      • The Winter’s Tale – Globe 2018
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2013
      • The Winter’s Tale – RSC 2021
      • The Winter’s Tale- Wanamaker
      • The Witch of Edmonton
      • There and Back Again – An Odyssey
      • Thérèse Raquin
      • This Happy Breed
      • This Is My Family
      • Timon of Athens
      • Timon of Athens – RSC
      • Titus Andronicus – RSC 2017
      • Titus Andronicus- Globe 2014
      • Totem
      • Travels With My Aunt (musical)
      • Travesties
      • Tristan and Yseult 2017
      • Troilus & Cressida RSC 2018
      • True West
      • Twelfth Night – Apollo 2012
      • Twelfth Night – Globe 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Globe, 2021
      • Twelfth Night – NT 2017
      • Twelfth Night – RSC 2017
      • Twelfth Night – Watermill
      • Twelfth Night – Young Vic
      • Twelfth Night RSC 2012
      • Twelfth Night- ETT 2014
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – 2016
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona – RSC
      • Two Gentlemen of Verona- 2013
      • Uncle Vanya (Hare)
      • Uncle Vanya (McPherson)
      • Venice Preserved
      • Vice Versa
      • Volpone
      • Vulcan 7
      • Watership Down
      • Way Upstream
      • What The Butler Saw
      • While The Sun Shines
      • Wolf Hall
      • Woman in Mind
      • Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown
      • wonder.land
      • Worst Wedding Ever
      • Woyzeck
      • Yerma (2017)
      • Young Chekhov Season
      • Young Marx
    • video
      • A Weekend Away, A Week By The Sea
        • Sections: Weekend Away / By the Sea
      • Dennis Cook: A history
      • Drama, dialogue and video
      • Teaching with video: techniques
      • Video: non-authentic
      • Video: on location
      • Video: Peter Viney Interview
      • Video: What happened?

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