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The Small World of Sammy Lee

The Small World of Sammy Lee
1963

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Directed by Ken Hughes
Written by Ken Hughes
From Ken Hughes TV play “Sammy”
Cinematography by Wolfgang Suschitzky

Music by Kenny Graham

CAST
Anthony Newley- Sammy Lee
Julia Foster – Patsy
Robert Stephens – Gerry, owner of The Peepshow
Wilfred Brambell- Harry, Sammy’s assistant / dresser
Warren Mitchell – Lou Leeman, Sammy’s brother
Miriam Karlin – Milly Leeman, Sammy’s sister-in-law
Kennyth J Warren – Fred
Clive Colin Bowler- Johnny
Toni Palmer- Joan
Harry Locke- Stage manager
Al Mulock – The Dealer
Cyril Shaps- Morris
Roy Kinnear- Lucky Dave
Derek Nimmo – ‘Rembrandt’

The 60s Retrospective Series

Release date: April 1963, UK, August 1963 USA

I met her in a club down in old Soho
Where you drink champagne
and it tastes just like
Cherry Cola
Lola – The Kinks (written by Ray Davies)

Anthony Newley

Anthony Newley had made his career leap upwards when he appeared in a 30 minute TV play, Sammy in 1958. That was a solo performance, just Newley and a phone, trying desperately to raise £300 to pay off gambling debts before the gangsters he owed the money took their revenge.

The subsequent film came after his fame as an actor, popular singer and comedian. The film The Small World of Sammy Lee stretches the plot to 107 minutes, and you have to admit that the plot would be done and dusted in any contemporary TV drama in 50 minutes at the outside. It’s not all about the plot though.

Anthony Newley had been an actor since he appeared as the Artful Dodger in Oliver Twist in 1948. He worked consistently on screen through the 1950s and went on to star in the National Service film Idol on Parade in 1958 which was about a pop singer / idol conscripted into the army. This helped launch a career as a singer, and a singer who retained his London accent. He was the inspiration for early David Bowie. This is how popular he was in 1962 when the film was made … from The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles:

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The chart book took the other double meaning and spelled it “Idle on Parade.” It is “Idol”

Add to that the avant-garde six-part TV series The Strange World of Gurney Slade. Gurney Slade is an actor who walks off a TV set, wanders around, talks to himself, breaks the fourth wall and walks behind camera to address the audience. I was in my early teens and thought it the best thing I’d ever seen on TV. Newley did stuff … three years as a pop singer, a year as a comedian … then never returned to it.

The Small World of Sammy Lee was filmed in July 1962, which places it between the London run of Stop The World I Want To Get Off which Newley co-wrote and starred in, and the Broadway run starting in October 1962. So it was sandwiched between two other productions where Anthony Newley was playing a tragic clown.

Given his status as a singer when The Small World of Sammy Lee was filmed, you’d expect at least a title song. Not for Newley. It’s a straight acting performance.

The cast

It’s just pre-Swinging sixties, though the cast contained three who were subsequently in Beatles films (Wilfred Brambell, Roy Kinnear, Warren Mitchell) and co-starred Julia Foster, later to co-star in Alfie. Miriam Karlin was from the then current TV sitcom The Rag Trade (1961-1963).

Julia Foster was young and inexperienced, but unusually for a British actor of that generation decided to create the entire backstory of ‘Patsy’ in her own mind, and filled several notebooks.

Julia Foster: Ken Hughes was scary … he wasn’t user-friendly, and he frightened me slightly. I was intimidated. But years later, I said “You weren’t really very kind to me.”
“That was on purpose,” he said, “I wanted you to feel vulnerable all the time.”

It worked! She’s great on screen. She added that she was told by Hughes that she would have a body double for the strip scenes. When the body double turned up she was fat and looked so awful that Julia Foster volunteered to do the scenes herself. It turned out that had been Ken Hughes’ plan all along, hence the wildly unsuitable body double.

The era and some facts

We were fascinated by background and artefacts (especially vehicles). I didn’t know that parking meters and double yellow lines existed in 1962, but Google tells me double yellow lines appeared in 1960. Not where I lived.

Soho was then notorious for drinking clubs, strip shows and prostitution. The club where Sammy works is probably a ‘clip joint’ where indeed ‘you drink champagne and it tastes like cherry-cola’. Ray Davies wrote Coca-Cola, but brand names were banned on BBC TV and radio, so he had to change it. These were strip clubs, where as well as an admission charge, scantily clad waitresses persuaded patrons to buy them “champagne” (which would be cheap fizzy wine) at wildly extortionate prices. I’m mildly surprised that in the film, the club can afford a four or five piece backing band for the strippers, but then most musicians say they found themselves backing strippers at one time or another in the 1960s.

In the late 60s, Soho was great for music in the clubs. It was not so great on Saturdays because football fans in London for a match used to gravitate straight to Soho for a bit of shouting, brawling, staring at the human merchandise and vomiting. We often walk through the same streets today, and while you still see some over-made up ladies standing around on corners which have no sign of a bus stop, it has become rapidly far more salubrious. The Chinatown area has had a tourism makeover with pagoda topped phone boxes. There are some ludicrously over-priced second hand record shops, a vintage magazine shop, and particularly lots of good restaurants.

The key sum, £300 which Sammy has to raise in five hours would be £6,500 in 2020 money, at least according to Google.

The posters claim that the girl, Patsy, was “one thousand miles from home.” I suspect many of us would know that Bradford to London is about 200 miles (I wrote that then checked, 203 miles. Not a bad guess!)

Plot

Completely full of plot-spoilers … as befits a classic.

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Sammy Lee (Anthony Newley) is the compere / comedian at the Soho striptease club, Peepshow. Right at the start, we see his poster on the wall, with dustbin men (or in 2020 refuse disposal operatives) collecting the rubbish from around the door. Symbolic, no doubt. The link to John Osborne’s 1957 play The Entertainer and the 1960 film, starring Laurence Olivier, is obvious, but this comedian is even further down the ladder than Olivier’s Billy Rice.

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Patsy (Julia Foster) arrives in Soho. Poster of Sammy Lee.

I’m trying to limit sarcasm, but then we see Patsy (Julia Foster) who has arrived from “Up North” in the big city bearing a small suitcase with all her belongings. This is an obligatory first appearance by a female in British 60s films. She stares at Sammy’s poster, as well she might. They have previous from his days on tour as a comic.

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Sammy is embroiled in a poker game and loses, and we hear that he’s already £150 in the hole to some gangsters. One might be suspicious about the honesty of the deal here. The thing about gambling is … that Sammy then gets given a tip for a horse at 25-1, and places the bet with a tenner. This will get him out of the hole, IF it wins.

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Vertically-challenged newspaper seller – the ambience of 1962 Soho, rich in character

He nips back to his flat, where his neighbouring tart-with-a-heart-of-gold is admitting her latest customer.

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Neighbours … everybody needs good neighbours

Back at the club, the dancers (aka strippers) are finishing a run through. Patsy comes in looking for a job. The interview with the owner, Gerry (Robert Stephens) involves stripping down, not that Gerry shows any more than academic interest.

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The job interview. Gerry (Robert Stephens) may well have seen it all before.

She gets offered a job, at £20 a week … not dancing but initially waiting on tables scantily clad. Sammy arrives and is shocked to see her. He did not know she’d travelled to London. He doesn’t like the idea of her working here.

Harry goes to get ready for the show and confides to Harry (Wilfred Brambell), his dresser, that he owes £300 to Joe Connor.

Harry: Come on, what’s worrying you?
Sammy: If you owed £300 to Joe Connor, you’d be worried.
Harry: Connor? How’d you come to do that then?
Sammy:  Oh, a couple of poker games, a few three-legged horses. It was easy, really.

(It seems odd that Sammy Lee, who we later learn is paid £15 by the strip club as compere, can afford the services of a dresser, Harry. Especially so, as Patsy is offered £20 a week to wait on tables.)

Sammy’s act is predictable.

Sammy: Well, thank you for that thunderous ovation. Good afternoon, gentlemen, and welcome to the Peepshow Club. And you’re welcome to it. We’ve got a wonderful show here for you today so I want you to forget about the wife and make yourselves comfortable; not too comfortable there, Sir, thank you. We were raided last week. Sit back, relax, enjoy yourselves. We’ve got some really beautiful girls here, some really beautiful girls … Keep your seat belt fastened Sir, all in good time. Now first of all, there’s Jacky. Now Jacky she’s a really lovely girl. She started off as a fan dancer, saved up enough money to feather her nest… forget it. Right the Peepshow Club is proud to present for your entertainment and delight the Peepshow Lovelies in a hysterical, er, historical tableau, entitled ‘The Garden of Allah’.

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The act at the club is based on an Arabian Nights routine. The idea of the exotic Arabian Dance of the (very wispy) Seven Veils gripped the British consciousness at the time. I was told it was based on the army in World War Two Egypt, either that or Hollywood sheiks in the Rudolph Valentino era, but it was a long way from reality and burqas.

The regular strippers don’t take a shine to Patsy, who is shocked at the proposals made by the dirty-mac brigade who are patrons of the club.

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Sammy and Patsy

Sammy does his act between strips – his job is to push them to the bar for over-priced drinks. Sammy is awful. Newley has also carefully studied the pose of comedians of the ilk, one hand in DJ pocket, the other on his stomach. Strip clubs had bizarre regulations, they could dance, but once naked it was a static tableaux, and they were only permitted a second or two before lights went out – all this is shown in the film.

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Joe Connor’s thugs give Sammy a talking to in his dressing room. The older one is doing his job with studied and threatening politeness:

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Do you have the money, Mr Lee?

The younger one is sadistic and up for any nastiness. Sammy now has to consult his notebook and find a way of getting the money in five hours.

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Let me take you through the streets of London …

His first resort is his brother, Lou Leeman (Warren Mitchell), who runs a kosher delicatessen. The strengths of the film come out in the background detail of Sammy going through the streets. This is somewhere over towards Petticoat Lane. It has a documentary feel … they look like real people on the streets.

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Lou (Warren Mitchell) and Sammy

Lou just doesn’t have that kind of money. The till contains £25. His wife Milly (Miriam Karlin) loathes Sammy, who she sees as a waster and chancer. He can’t understand in turn what Lou sees in her. On the other hand, Milly’s assessment is fair. They’re shutting up shop to go for lunch … as nearly all shops did in 1962.I’d forgotten.

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Milly: I wouldn’t help you if you was lying bleeding in the gutter.

Sammy is back on the phone. This is one of several sequences involving his cat Oscar (said to be a Newley in-joke … he’s got an “Oscar.”). He’s on the phone trying to do a deal for some dodgy watches, but all the guy on the phone wants is a chair Sammy owns. It was his mother’s favourite …and he won’t sell as the bidding goes up (and later up again).

Sammy: Well, you see, my mother died in that chair. Yeah. God rest her soul. Five years she sat in it. Day in. Day out. Never got out of it.

This must be an intact section of the original play. The prostitute from next door comes in and offers to help him out with money. How much does he need?

Sammy: A bloody sight more than you’ve got in that bag, I can tell you!

He declines as he feels that will make him a pimp. His next scam is to buy and sell some bottles of American whiskey. He recruits poor Harry, who doesn’t seem too bright, to help him out, running around, arranging stuff. Wilfred Brambell was just about to start Steptoe and Son and had already perfected his act of looking much older and feebler than his real age.

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Harry (Wilfred Brambell) finds it hard to remember instructions …

Sammy now has a great deal of racing about. Next he tries to unload a couple of thousand watches on Morrie, who already has a boxes of watches, but still agrees to buy 125.  The panic has Sammy running from pillar to post.

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Someone else needs more glasses, another quick bit of buying and selling. Then it’s off to the billiard hall to speak to Eddie, who says he’d heard Sammy was in hospital. A pointed comment. Or was soon to be in hospital. He asks Sammy to get him some ‘reefer’ or ‘gear.’ This is somewhat beyond Sammy’s normal dodgy dealings.

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Pianist: You come running to me asking for pot? And I don’t have no weed. I don’t even smoke, man.

He has no idea where to get it, so nips into a club where some black musicians are rehearsing. They are deeply offended at his assumption, pointing out that they don’t smoke anything. However they point out a club where he might find some, and we see Sammy mixing grass with rolling tobacco on a table in quantity.

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Patsy does the strip routine

Back at the club, Sammy gets another shock. One of the dancers has been sacked, and Patsy has taken her place for the full strip … with silver fig leaf.

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Gerry (Robert Stephens) and Sammy

Sammy: I suppose this as all your bloody clever idea.
Gerry: She wanted to do it …
Sammy: Oh, sure. You mean you talked her into it.
Gerry: Oh, grow up, will you? For God’s sake … You’re acting like she’s a twelve year old schoolgirl or something.
Sammy: They’re all dirty here. All dirty.
Gerry: Look, Sam, Any girl who takes her clothes off for a living is an whore! And I don’t know if she’s your girlfriend, or what she is, but if that’s what she does, she’s a blasted whore.

Nothing worse than a moralising mysogynist pimp. So, Sammy is furious, and wants her right out of there. He has more frantic calls to Harry … time is passing. He still declines to sell mum’s chair (it does not look valuable to me, more a bit of grotty fifties G-Plan).

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Sammy & Patsy

Sammy & Patsy go back to his rooms and make love. We fill in some back story … he was her first lover back in Bradford, and there has been no one else. After a fling, he’d promised to help her if ever she came to London.  He phones the coach station … there is a bus back to Bradford at eight, and he wants her to go home and get right out of Soho.

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At last he hears from Harry. Harry has got the money for the whiskey … and it’s a cheque. These guys don’t do cheques. If they did, Sammy would have passed one to them right at the start.

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This is to be Sammy’s last stage show.

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Sammy: Gentlemen, this is probably my last public appearance on any stage for some time. Right. Shall I tell you something? This is for nothing. These birds back here … they hate you, right? They hate you, believe me, they hate you. You make them sick … The Peep Show Club is proud to present, on this very stage, what is probably the most second-rate, nasty, small-minded dirty little show in the West End, right?

The gangster’s Mark IX Jaguar is outside the club. Sammy is hurrying to Victoria Coach station. He catches up with Patsy who is about to board the coach. He’s coming with her. As they board the coach, he asks if he can pay on board, but no, he must go back and get a ticket … there’s a queue.

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Meanwhile … the familiar Jaguar is arriving at the coach station. Sammy sees them, and decides not to run … it would be pointless. He watches Patsy’s bus pull away, so she will be safe.

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Sammy calmly gets in the car, and they drive him to some wasteland. He knows he will be beaten up. The older one insists on doing it … while lying on the ground, Sammy sees an iron bar and retaliates which means a worse beating. They depart … he struggles to his feet.

(In any modern film they would have killed him. We British look back in pride to a time where torture and broken limbs sufficed for the criminal element).

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Small World Sammy Lee BR

The first impression is the clarity and sharpness of the Studiocanal blu-ray restoration, bringing 1962 Soho to life. These 60s black and white films scrub up so well, much better than colour ones from the same era. The cinematography is superb throughout. (Well, they did screw up on night shots of the Jaguar – I reckon they put Vaseline on the doors to stop reflections … as such reflections tend to reveal the camera. It makes it look very streaky.) A lot was filmed in the actual streets, but the main set where we see the Peepshow Club next door to Cecil Gee was a Shepperton Studios set.

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The World of Sammy Lee: Note Cecil Gee 

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The Young Ones, a year earlier at Shepperton Studios: Different shop front, so Cecil Gee was probably a product placement deal!

The Soundtrack

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Smooth, cool Mod-jazz from Kenny Graham … the style which was used in Newley’s World of Gurney Slade series. I’d never seen a copy of the soundtrack listed, but it was released on CD (2013) and vinyl (2014) at the time the film was heavily restored.

The review on Discogs:
Johnny Trunk (of Trunk Records) located this ‘lost’ soundtrack through Kenny Graham’s daughter, who had it stored away in her attic. Trunk found a box that said “Sammy, ” and five years later, he has this release on his label. “Soho at Dawn,” the opening cut for this album, and I presume the film, is a beauty. It smells like Soho at that time of the day, and I get a sense of a chill as if I was walking a Soho street. The rest of the album is just as cinematic with evident jazz touches. Still, it’s very focused on its theme of urgency, yet sadness at the same time — a moody work.

The original recording was early 1963, and Kenny Graham was known to have used Joe Meek’s engineering skills, but no one knows if Meek was involved.

Overall

I thoroughly enjoyed watching it again. It is long for its plot. Ironically the bits you could cut are the long phone conversations, which would be the original play. However, as Ken Hughes wrote the original AND the screenplay AND directed it, all the visual additions are his.

THE 60s REVISITED REVIEWS …

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A Taste of Honey (1961)
Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963)
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963)
Tom Jones (1963)
The Fast Lady (1963)
What A Crazy World (1963)
A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
Gonks Go Beat (1965)
Cat Ballou (1965)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Darling (1965)
The Knack (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)

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      • 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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