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A Very Peculiar Practice – Series One

A Very Peculiar Practice
TV series, 1986
(Series 1) 1988 (Series 2)

Written by Andrew Davies
Directed by David Tucker
Produced by Ken Riddington
Theme Music: Dave Greenslade, sung by Elkie Brooks

SEE ALSO SERIES TWO

SEE ALSO ‘A VERY POLISH PRACTICE’ (1992)

Series One DVD

This got voted ‘ Fifth Best TV Comedy’ in a Guardian poll in 2010. That’s about right, but perfect comedy length is 25-30 minutes, and this is 55 minutes. I’d place it first in ‘TV Comedy series at about an hour.’

It did the Fawlty Towers thing … just two series of seven episodes each, and stop. Though it did return for a one-off 90 minute sequel A Very Polish Practice.

The setting is the Medical Centre at Lowlands University. Andrew Davies wrote it while lecturing at Warwick University, but the series was filmed at Leicester University, I thought. Wikipedia says it was Birmingham and Keele, but that Davies had UEA in Norwich in mind with its brutalist architecture. UEA declined after Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man. They were sensitive about it … so am I. There are a couple of remarks about postgrad students in the text which I took personally as one of Malcolm Bradbury’s postgrad students!

It looks like any concrete and glass 60s built campus. Andrew Davies must be Britain’s most successful screenwriter. Apart from A Very Peculiar Practice he has specialized in literary adaptations … Pride & Prejudice, Vanity Fair, Wives and Daughters, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Bleak House, LittleDorrit, Mr Selfridge, War & Peace, Les Miserables, Sanditon to A Suitable Boy. I just wish he had written more originals. It’s pitch perfect. There is never a point where dialogue jarred, and that’s very very rare for me.

Peter Davison: Although I love both series, the second was my favourite. It was a really good satire on Thatcher’s Britain, and this view of education being run by big business. It was the kind of series where you didn’t want to change any of the lines. Very often you get scripts where you say to the director, “Do you mind if I change this to this,” but I don’t remember a single instance where anybody wanted to change a single line in it, even down to the last full stop and comma.

We watched it on broadcast 1986 and 1988. We taped it on VHS and re-watched it. We bought Series One on DVD and watched it. Now we’re watching the complete set … Series one and two, plus A Very Polish Practice.

There’s the basic cast of four doctors, a nurse and a receptionist.

The characters

L to R: Rose Marie, Bob Buzzard, Jock McCannon, Stephen Dakar

Dr Stephen Dakar (Peter Davison)

Dr Stephen Dakar (Peter Davison)

Stephen is our hero, the new doctor, sincere, fresh from a nasty divorce. Peter Davison has the earnest face of a lost puppy. Honest, caring, he’s out of place. He was already halfway though his lead role in All Creatures Great & Small (65 episodes, 1978-1990) so we were pre-disposed to find him cuddly. He had also just been the “Fifth doctor” in Doctor Who so was a major catch for the series.

Dr Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden) the alcoholic head of the centre. A fan of R.D. Laing and the author of Sexual Anxiety and The Common Cold. He believes illness is all in the mind. He is working on his next book, a mere fifteen years on, The Sick University.

Dr Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn).

Dr Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn)

She has no surname, not believing in sirs or sires. She believes all illness stems from a phallocentric world and men are the root cause of all female illness. She is bisexual, yet exudes sexuality from every pore, not helped by her insistence on wearing a white overall. It buttons up the front but there are no buttons below the thighs. The suspicion is that she wears a medical overall so she can get angry when mistaken for a nurse. She’s ahead of her time again … research showed that doctors’ suits and ties were a source of infection and they’d be better wearing scrubs. When we rewatched Family At War we were puzzled over why Barbara Flynn had this aura of sexuality in a wildly different role, then we realized we were taking back her characterization from A Very Peculiar Practice.

Dr Bob Buzzard (David Troughton).

Dr Buzzard (David Troughton) with Dr McCannon (Graham Crowden)

Dr Bob (Please, please call me Robert …) is ex-public school, pin-striped suited. The GP as businessman.

Mark Fisher: Buzzard is the very epitome of the Thatcherite man, impatient with any concept of public service, hungry to transform the practice into private consultancy, and absolutely untroubled by any concerns about corporate influence. 
Film Quarterly, 1 December 2011

How prescient Andrew Davies was. Thirty-four years on that’s exactly what our local GP practices are like. They even put “Ltd” after their name. I’m going to use this review to discuss medical practices a lot. I’ve had great GPs in the past. Dr Tadros, who delivered me, was my GP till I was 19. Once I was 16, he offered me a cigarette when he saw me. He was Egyptian, and like a kindly uncle in my teenage. The medical centre at Hull University was much more Peter Davison than any of the others. The chief GP was a drama fan and I often had friendly social conversations at productions. Then when the kids were small, our GP would turn up personally at any time of day or night. We became friends and went to his house for dinner. These were different times. A GP was a highly respected member of the community … they drove Rovers, then later SAABs or Volvos. Tony Blair removed the vocation from the job. They were no longer expected to take responsibility 24/7. Blair did for General Practice what Thatcher did to mines. Isn’t it interesting? Those prime ministers who sweep to power with the largest majorities, end up being reviled. Thatcher … Blair … and Boris Johnson will join them.

So back to Lowlands Medical Centre …

Bob Buzzard hates seeing patients. He wants to do it all on (primitive) computers. Our GPs started a triage system years ago. You phone and describe your symptoms to an unqualified and snappy receptionist, who will then decide whether the mighty doctor will decide to see you, leave a prescription or speak to you on the phone sometime of their choice in the next six hours … so do stay by the phone. They LOVE Covid-19. Now they don’t see anyone at all and keep the outer door locked. All the local practices have combined in one conglomerate so that you can’t switch either. It’s Bob Buzzard’s dream world. See The Daily Telegraph front page (from the BBC News site):

14 September 2020

Then we add:

Maureen Garaghan (Lindy Whitford)

Maureen (Lindy Whitford) gives the doctors her opinion.

The Practice Nurse, who knows more than her bosses and regards them with contempt. I love her. It was just such a nurse who saved my younger son’s life when he was eighteen months old back in 1983. He had a temperature of 104, and a purple swollen arm. The locum (our much loved GP was on holiday) at our GP surgery prescribed Calpol. The practice nurse shook her head, dialled Casualty, handed the phone to him and said, ‘This child clearly has septicemia. Tell Casualty his parents are driving him there NOW!’
‘You can’t tell me what to do … I’m a doctor,’ he stuttered.
‘Do it NOW!’ she told him. He did. She was right. He was in hospital for over a month. When I thanked her on a later visit she whispered, ‘He’s a moron. He should be struck off!’

Mrs Kramer (Gillian Raine) is the stern strict discipline reception manager. Her job is to control access to the doctors.

They meet …

Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood).

Stephen with Lyn (Amanda Hillwood)

Policewoman doing a research degree on Body Language. An athlete and swimmer. Totally confident. The love interest in series one.

Takashi Kawahara. Mathematician who shares the staff flat with Dr Dakar. Burmese. A bit of a guru and advisor.

Ernest Hemmingway (John Bird) is the Vice-Chancellor as businessman and bully. He reminded me so much of more than one Managing Director in Publishing.

Then there are the two nuns who are a running emblem in every episode, usually observed raiding the rubbish skips for items like bicycle wheels and spreading litter across the lawns. The skip truck also starts every episode.

Then each episode has at least one major guest actor. I’m going to avoid plot spoilers, but focus rather on personal reactions and the prescience in the scripts!

Series One

A Very Long Way From Anywhere

The origin issue. Stephen has taken the job after a painful divorce. The receptionist mistakes him for a patient. We totally ignore an Afro-Caribbean man weeping in the waiting room. We’re meeting the characters.

Jock McCannon’s theme is “listening to the patient” yet after Stephen declines a morning shot of Scotch, he fails to pick up that Stephen is NOT a total abstainer, though he’s told so in every episode. He dismisses a Chinese girl’s acute appendicitis as nervous anxiety born from homesickness.

Bob Buzzard has his say about the university:

Bob Buzzard: I’ll tell you what it’s like. It’s like a very, very inefficient sector of British industry. Top management are totally corrupt and idle, middle management are incompetent and idle, and the workforce are bolshy. And idle. And of course, there’s no bloody product!”

Bob cites his qualificatuons:

Bob: Classical tale of a promising career gone sour. Shrewsbury. Trinity. Guy’s. Royal Durham, ICI, Princeton. Spell in Saudi. Then, fatal mistake: Came here. What about you?
Stephen: Birmingham… Birmingham… Birmingham… Walsall.

Stephen goes swimming with the ultra-competitive Bob who finishes and tells Stephen to do another six lengths. He starts to drown and is rescued by Lyn, who he takes to be a swimming instructor. In fact she’s a Ph. D student. This is the start of their friendship. She discovers he has a touch phobia.

We Love You, That’s Why We’re Here
with:
Peter Blake- Carl Pierce, drama lecturer
Francesca Brill – Angie Fry, drama student
Kate Eaton – Megan Phillips, Religious Education student
Hugh Grant – Colin, Scottish preacher

Dr Rose Marie and Stephen. Discussing who will give the welcoming speech

This is the episode I remember best, and my all-time favourite. Stephen is selected to give the opening address to new students. Bob gives him a couple of ‘confidence pills’ which are alcohol contra-indicated, then Chen wakes him up with morning coffee with a shot of brandy. The speech appears disastrous, but the students love him. ‘Come and see us even when you’re not ill,’ he exclaims.

This one is based around two students, Angie and Megan, who have to share a room. Angie adores her father. She is a drama student and a fantasist, and can’t wait to lose her virginity. She gets the pill prescribed from Stephen, telling him she was on it before. Megan is an uptight Welsh fundamentalist (with my Welsh grandmother’s maiden surname, I noted!) She thinks Lowlands is a den of iniquity and is prudish. Angie falls for her charismatic drama lecturer, Carl (Peter Blake). I was doing drama twenty years earlier. Yes, I did those same trust exercises too. He is perfect. I knew these people, all of them. I knew the religious studies teacher trying to get students to think outside their boxes.

The double room rang bells. The Lawns residential campus at Hull was designed with floors … five singles, two doubles on each floor, surrounding a communal living area. When I was in Hull a couple of years ago, I went to look … long converted to all singles. Modern students won’t put up with doubles. It was clear that all Catholic students were assigned doubles to keep them out of mischief too. I had a single. My friend Mick had a double with a student who knelt and prayed every night. Mich researched the Catholic connection! (Remember there are always nuns in sight at Lowlands). When my son was at an American university people actually wanted double rooms and quadruple rooms. Your room mates are your friends for life. Not for the British.

The freshers story was perfect. The twist is brilliant. Hugh Grant plays the fundamentalist Scots preacher in a gospel hall. Lyn has pulled Stephen along to the service to watch the body language. Megan goes up to stand with the preacher.

Colin the Preacher (Hugh Grant)

Hugh Grant, with Megan, in Stephen’s office is just about the funniest six second simpering silent performance I have ever seen. I expect I said at the time, ‘He’ll go far.” He did.

Lyn has also discovered that Stephen has an aversion to being touched and sets him on her touch therapy course.

Wives of Great Men

Timothy West – Professor Furie
Phillipa Urq – Helen Furie

Professor Furie (Timothy West)

The theme is that wives of great men suffer. As do the wives of those who think themselves great men. Timothy West is Professor Furie, manic-depressive and paranoid head of Biochemistry. He is convinced his wife is having an affair and has no idea that spilling joke remarks about gang bangs to all and sundry is offensive. A thoroughly nasty man. He is incredibly aggressive on first meeting Stephen to demand dexedrine to stay awake. As Bob explains, Furie is a qualified physician as well as a biochemist of world renown.

Somewhere in there I felt a certain empathy with him. He expects a medical doctor to patronize him so goes in all guns blazing. Stephen is the very last person in the world to patronize anyone. It set me thinking. Consultants and surgeons I’ve spoken to over five decades have always been friendly, informative and treat you as an equal intellect. General Practioners (GPs) on the other hand can indeed be patronizing and superior. People who were in the military agreed. ‘Officers speak to you nicely. NCOs don’t.’

Having written a book on Communication Skills, I had to stop and explain this to a GP. She was about thirty. I was sixty at the time. She said, ‘Come in, dear. Take a seat, dear. What’s troubling you, dear?’ I pointed out that she could call me Peter, or Mr Viney, or indeed ‘sir,’ but that ‘dear’ to a man of sixty was patronizing to the point of rudeness. It made me feel geriatric. She was totally perplexed. I think GPs should study communication skills, and also Lyn’s special subject … body language.

Furie takes a liking to Stephen and insists that he becomes his drinking buddy. Stephen can’t refuse – Furie is pro-Vice Chancellor. The wives aspect brings in GPs too. They are becoming the villains of this piece. One told me I should buy a bike and go to the gym. ‘I do a thirty minute ride, then an hour in the gym every morning before surgery,’ he said blithely. I looked at the picture of three kids which GPs keep on their desks (Bob Buzzard has one). ‘Who gets the kids up, gives them breakfact and takes them to school?’ I asked.
‘Oh, my wife takes care of all that domestic side of life,’ he said, ‘I’m far too busy.’
The wives of great men, indeed. Busy? Not working. The bastard was 30 minutes late coming in while we sat and waited. Busy enjoying exercise on your own. That isn’t busy. That’s recreation. Try getting kids breakfasted, uniformed and transported to school one day.

Black Bob’s Hamburger Suit

Kay Stoneham – Daphne Buzzard
David Gwillim – Jimmy Partington, of Hamburger Pharmaceuticals
Jonathan Haley & Nicholas Haley – Bob and Daphne’s sons

Dr Buzzard in new suit, recruits Stephen to assist

Bob has a smart new suit. It is a gift from Hamburger, a pharmaceutical company. He already has a nice leather briefcase from them. Their representative is Jimmy, an old school chum who boasts of his wealth to Bob, and dangles the prospect of trips to exotic places for conferences. He wants Bob to test a new drug, Confidan, that removes anxiety and treats an array of ailments. Rose Marie declines to participate, and so poor Stephen is enlisted to help.

Stephen and Lyn are invited to Sunday lunch with Jimmy at Bob’s house. The conversation as Daphne prepares the nouvelle cuisine starter (adorned with kiwi fruit) is precious stuff. Wonderfully snobby. Meanwhile the boys are telling Stephen what daddy thinks of his partners at the practice. The kids are great.

Jonathan Haley & Nicholas Haley – Bob and Daphne’s sons

Jimmy, a total sleaze, admits that he tried to hit on Lyn on the landing but she declined his advances so she must be fond of Stephen.

The drug turns out to have an alarming side effect. They knew this from trials in the USA, which the ever-plotting Rose Marie has discovered in a series of phone calls. We are increasingly aware that Dr Rose Marie is manipulating everyone and lying to the other doctors. She is an immensely powerful presence, sending Stephen into nervous stuttering every time.

Stephen and Dr Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn)

Pharmaceutical companies do shower doctors with freebies. Our GP practice has a height and weight machine with pulse check in the lobby. Then you take the results up to the GP. It has a drug company name on it. It measures my height at 5 ft 11 inches. I have had two knee operations this year and have had my height measured in hospital half a dozen times. Just under 6 foot 1 inches. We all lose height with age. At 21, I was 6 foot 3 inches. My sons also found they’re over an inch shorter on the machine. Of course, being an inch shorter increases your body mass index. Then you get prescribed drugs.

Contact Tracer

The results of the survey. Arts Department (top, off screen), lots of cases. Physical Sciences and Engineering, just one apiece

My example was apposite, for there is an outbreak of NSU in the university (non-specific urethritis, as immortalised in the track by Cream). Bob Buzzard comes up with contact tracing using his trusty computer (is it a BBC-B?). Thirty-four years later in the Covid pandemic he would be acclaimed. All four doctors participate and there’s a fascinating conclusion … an asymptomatic source. It will be an interesting one, and Stephen has to inform the person. Not a nice job in the circumstances.

Dealing with it daily does nothing for Stephen’s relationship with Lynn … he’s afraid of sex again.

Bob Buzzard is again well ahead of the curve. We have a copy of the BMA Family Medical Advisor a comprehensive guide to symptoms with flow charts (back to problems with urination). So it will say ‘Does it hurt when you pee?’ then there are arrows to Yes / No, and a series of options.

This is a page

Anyway, I checked up whatever a problem was and went through the boxes till I got to “Consult your Medical Practicioner.” So I made an appointment. The questions from the GP sounded familiar, so I glanced over at the screen my GP was perusing. It was exactly the same flow chart. They must have done it as a programme. I just said, ‘Skip to the third column. I’m here.’

It gets worse. Since Covid our surgery asks you send in a photo of symptoms. Karen did with a growing blemish on her face. The reply said “AK. Below the threshold for treatment.” Still worried, she went to a private skin clinic, who removed it. They pointed out that (a) the diagnosis was completely wrong (b) you cannot tell from a photo, which is why they use UV light and a magnifier. We had already looked at the BMA book, examined the photos therein, decided it wasn’t AK, and got to “Consult your Medical Practicioner.”

Hit List

Jean Heywood – Dr Hubbard

Davies is again ahead of the curve in seeing this happening in 1986. What happens is you climb an incremental scale for sixteen years and become much more expensive to employ than someone on step one of the ladder. Banks were the first into this in the 80s, and employees who had been told it was a job for life were being pensioned off at fifty. Publishers and universities were a little slow to catch on, but they did.

In this case the hit list are older academics, who interfere with the modern running of a university by waffling on about irrelevant topics like education, research, student welfare, humanism … all anathema to Ernest Hemmingway, the VC. He has found a way to get rid of them. Until 1971, new staff were not subject to medicals. He will make it retroactive and get rid of the argumentative ageing ones … Dr Jock McCannon is a primary target. Unusually, Bob and Rose Marie are willing to work together to secure Jock’s dismissal into retirement.

The Vice Chancellor is continuing his courting of Japanese corporate investment … now it would be Chinese. He wants to offer them a base with their corporate name on it. There is a long history of billionaire benefactors, creating monuments to themselves from the tax money they won’t be paying. I benefitted greatly from our local library which acknowledged Andrew Carnegie on the front wall plaque.  … there are several  Sainsbury Wings at art galleries, museums and hospitals.  Hull had its Gulbenkian theatre centre. Southampton University has its Nuffield Theatre. Think of Oxford and Kelloggs College (Are cornflakes compulsory for breakfast?). Or think of Oxford and its Said Business school. Wafik Said is the Syrian millionaire who brokered the huge UK-Saudi Arms deal with the help of the PMs son, Mark Thatcher. It now has a Thatcher Building, though is that named after mother or son?

The trouble is that historian Dr Hubbard is the warden of the university’s only women’s hall of residence, Fairlie Hall. It’s the ideal location for the Japanese. The Medical Centre must be persuaded to fail her in the medical. Stephen declines to do it.

Watching the demo: Stephen, Jock and the Vice Chancellor

The episode also lets us see a demonstration and occupation of a building against the university authorities.

It set me thinking about the publisher, managing editors and directors when I started writing for OUP. They knew they were supposed to sell books, but they justified OUP’s status as a charity. They talked about spreading education in English as a Foreign Language as a way of improving life for learners. They talked about education. They meant it. Alas, such men are no more. It’s all about selling books.

It also brought back two recent times on campuses. We arrived early at Southampton’s Nuffield Theatre one Saturday. The predicted New Forest traffic jam had not materialised. We had an hour to wander the campus. I heard Chinese, Korean, Malay, Arabic, Russian, but not one English speaker. It’s a campus I know – twenty years ago two of my children were there. They remember hardly any non-English speakers. Then there was Exeter at the start of term. Overseas students were the majority wandering the campus. It may be of course that near the start of term, the British kids feel confident about going into town on a Saturday night, while the new arrivals from overseas prefer to stay on campus. That will be a factor. These quiet overseas students don’t look the types for clubbing and vomiting in shop doorways on a Saturday night.

I spent my life in ELT (English Language Teaching) and I’m well aware that universities have expanded rapidly by becoming the top of the ELT pyramid. Publishers produced study skills books for overseas students at universities. They were asked for a lower level. Then a lower level again.

Universities have become a part of the ELT Business. They have created acres of Halls of residence with en-suites to meet the massive demand. Yes, it has many positive aspects. I’m not knocking it so much as pointing out that VC Ernest Hemmingway knew that was the future back in 1986.

Catastrophe Theory

Paul Jesson – P.R. Prettiman
Geoffrey Beavers – Sodd
Andrew Hilton – Soames
Kathy Burke – Alice, a student of German
Joe Melia – Dr Rust

The government inspectors are due, and Lowlands is facing a 25% staff cut all round. Four in the medical centre? Work it out. Worried lecturers turn up … Kathy Burke has a cameo. Joe Melia is Dr Rust, a worried academic, the Arts Council Fellow in Creative Writing. I had to laugh at that, as Malcolm Bradbury was my MA supervisor at UEA. He’s lucky to see Stephen.

Dr Rust: I seem to owe the BBC 17,000 quid, for reasons I can’t quite understand. So I decided to write off the debt with this little serial. About this place. The thing is, this place is crazy. Every time I think up something really outrageous, reality comes over and tops it. Any damned fool thing I think up really happens.

The screenwriter intervenes on his own behalf.

I also had to laugh at the terrified lecturer in education, who can’t stand the idea of having to go back and TEACH in a school.

Bob Buzzard: And you haven’t set foot in a real school, for what?
Lecturer: Um … 15 years.
Bob Buzzard: Oh, dear. Oh, dear. Well some would say you’ve got it coming to you.

Even the Vice Chancellor is scared, knowing that it comes from the top, she who they’re not going to name, the Milksnatcher:

Hemmingway: We gave her a doctorate last year … I didn’t throw the bloody tomato, did I?

This would have been right about the time Oxford University declined to award a D. Litt to Margaret Thatcher, in spite of her being a graduate. It did not endear the university sector to her.

Hemmingway has a classic mid 19th century carpet bag … which gave its name to carpetbaggers after the civil war, hoovering up the spoils and making a run for it. Lovely visual touch.

The inspectors are led by accident prone P.R. Prettiman. Not that it looks like he’s in charge, he has two waffling civil servants, Soames and Sodd (Davies had such fun with names … a cabinet minister and a respelled ‘sod.’) to appear to be the front men, while Prettiman wanders about looking into everything.

P.R. Prettiman (Paul Jesson)

The Medical Centre will be due for cuts. Robert invites Prettiman to be thrashed at squash only to discover they were at school together, where Bob Buzzard bullied him. Stephen has a sympathetic drink with him. Dr Rose Marie goes all the way in using her feminine allure.

Meanwhile Chen has been offered a job at UCLA and his professor is busily trying to plagiarize Chen’s work. Lyn has been offered a job at Hendon Police College. They will be parting.

It’s brave of Andrew Davies to lose Chen, and the to get rid of Hemmingway AND more than anything to lose Lyn. Was he already thinking of a second series and keen on radical changes?

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      • 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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