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Review of Dawn of The Planet of The Apes added under films. Better than I expected AND it has The Weight by The Band on the soundtrack.

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Amadeus review

Review of the re-opening production at Chichester Festival Theatre, Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus (LINKED) with Rupert Everett, Joshua McGuire and Jessie Buckley. An out and out five star play, for the second Saturday afternoon in a row, Monumental.

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Oh, dear. Probably the second-worst music review I’ve ever posted (Nothing touches Sly Stone). We thought Hall & Oates were truly dire. Over-amplified, over-priced and forty years past their sell-by date. Review of Hall & Oates at Bournemouth International Centre is here.

Review of The Bleedin Noses at The Larmer Tree Festival, Wednesday 16th July 2014. They had the Larmer Tree Newcomer Award spot, and are an excellent Alt.Country band from South Wales. Definitely one to explore.

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Review of Tom Jones at Larmer Tree Festival, (LINKED HERE) Dorset, 16th July 2014 added.

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Review of Shakespeare in Love  (LINKED) in the new stage version, featuring Tom Bateman as Will Shakespeare and Lucy Briggs-Owen as Viola. We’ve seen seven plays in London in a fortnight. This was easily the best of the lot, even better than The Crucible and Antony & Cleopatra, which is high praise!

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Review of Martin Freeman in Richard III in the Trafalgar Transformed season directed by Jamie Lloyd. Apologies. this review is almost entirely negative. I thought the direction immature, cliched and contemptuous of the audience who got spattered with stage blood. Freeman was OK, but all three recent Richard III’s were much better. SEE FULL REVIEW.

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Review of The Importance of Being Earnest, (LINKED) directed by Lucy Bailey is now up. This version sets the play within the frame of an Amateur Dramatic company of ageing actors rehearsing the play with a star cast including Martin Jarvis, Nigel Havers and Sian Phillips.

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Review of Antony and Cleopatra (LINKED) in the Shakespeare’s Globe production, 6th July 2014.  Starring Eve Best as Cleopatra and Clive Wood as Antony. “This is exactly why you go to the Globe to see Shakespeare”.

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Review of Julius Caesar, at The Globe, London. 5th July 2014. An excellent Globe production, full of life and vigour.

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Infamy! Infamy! Everybody’s got in in for me …