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The Demon Barbers

14/06/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of The Demon Barbers added here. Follow the link. Another great evening of new English folk at Forest Arts in New Milton.

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Two Gentlemen of Verona

13/06/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of the “Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory” production of Two Gentlemen of Verona (linked here) added. It’s a pity to review it right at the end of its tour, but good to see a lesser-known play in performance.

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The Look of Love

10/06/2013 by Peter Viney

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Review of the biopic of Paul Raymond, The Look of Love, added. This stars Steve Coogan as Raymond and Imogen Poots as his daughter. It’s not an edifying tale.

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The Hot House

01/06/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of The Hot House by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed Season, with Simon Russell-Beale and John Simm added.

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Sloppy Fiction

31/05/2013 by Peter Viney

The ever-growing article on Sloppy Fiction (linked here) has two new paragraphs at the end. One on Dan Brown’s Inferno, and I suspect this will grow as I listen to more of the audio CDs in the car. The other on Tracy Chevalier’s The Last Runaway where I thought there was an error, but I was totally wrong.

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Othello

26/05/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of the National Theatre production of Othello added. This is set in a military base in 2013, an example of a high-concept modern location for Shakespeare working perfectly.

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Rory Kinnear as Iago, and Adrian Lester as Othello, National Theatre, 2013

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25/05/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of Spiers & Boden in the Back Yard Songs Tour added. See link. On their Back Yard Songs Tour they agreed they would do some purely local songs which were new to them in each venue on the tour. A truly exhilerating evening of English folk at its very best.

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Star Trek Into Darkness

21/05/2013 by Peter Viney

Review of Star Trek Into Darkness added here.

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The Great Gatsby

16/05/2013 by Peter Viney

Released today in the UK, and The Great Gatsby is reviewed here. This review is really out on a limb … it’s actually positive among the rush of bad reviews the film is picking up. I liked it.

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The Misanthrope

11/05/2013 by Peter Viney

Review added of Roger McGough’s version of The Misanthrope. This was truly “The Misanthrope without Alceste” as the lead role had to be replaced by an actor reading aloud from the handheld script. This makes it hard to judge the intrinsic quality of McGough’s script, but our conclusion, in spite of ecstatic reviews elsewhere, was “an interesting production, with good ideas, of a poor version of the play.”

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