A picture essay of April in the garden added (LINKED), given that much of the day is wandering around the garden. iPhone in hand, I just ended up taking LOTS of photos.
The Knack – And How To Get It review
24/04/2020 by Peter Viney
The 1960s series continues with THE KNACK- AND HOW TO GET IT (linked) from 1965. It’s the second Rita Tushingham film in a row. It was directed by Richard Lester, sandwiched between A Hard Day’s Night and Help! The other stars were Michael Crawford, Ray Brooks and Donal Donnely. Like so many “Swinging 60s” films it was based on a stage play, The Knack, by Ann Jellicoe. At least half of the film is new visual material. It suffers nowadays from the ending and the rape accusations by Nancy (Rita Tushingham). It still has a lot going for it visually, and you can tell where Michael Crawford would be heading with screen comedy.
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A Taste of Honey (1961) review
21/04/2020 by Peter Viney
Review of Tony Richardson’s 1961 film, A TASTE OF HONEY (linked). Based on Shelagh Delaney’s 1958 stage play. There is a linked review to the 2014 production. The film is a true classic, introducing Rita Tushingham. The cast were Murray Melvin, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens and Paul Danquah. Lots of photos in the review as there are so many online.
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Work Is A Four Letter Word review
19/04/2020 by Peter Viney
1968 film, WORK IS A FOUR LETTER WORD (linked). This is one of those not on video or DVD. Directed by Peter Hall, starring David Warner and Cilla Black. It was based on the stage play Eh? by Henry Livings and its absence from any media suggests those involved may prefer to forget it happened.
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Fahrenheit 451 – review
18/04/2020 by Peter Viney
The 60s series continues. The latest is FAHRENHEIT 451 (linked). Directed by Françcois Truffaut based on Ray Bradbury’s 1951 novel about a world where books are banned, and burned. Nicholas Roeg was the cinematographer. At that point sci-fi wasn’t considered a serious genre on film, due to shaky SFX. Truffaut got round the issue. Starring Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack and Anton Diffring. Julie Christie seems to excite particular attention in these reviews from gentlemen of my generation. The good news is that she plays both the wife and the girlfriend.
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Lee Hazlewood- Toppermost
15/04/2020 by Peter Viney
My new article on LEE HAZLEWOOD is live on the Toppermost website today. The man who put the American in Americana.
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The Swiss Connection in ELT
14/04/2020 by Peter Viney
An ELT article added on the often under-stated Swiss influence on Language Teaching.
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The Magic Christian – review
12/04/2020 by Peter Viney
60s Retrospective review of THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (linked). Starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr with music from Badfinger (Come & Get It by Paul McCartney). This is a case where “cult movie” or “so bad it’s good” doesn’t work, because this was a deeply flawed “black comedy” project from Terry Southern’s novel. Unfortunately it wasn’t funny.
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The Family Way – review
09/04/2020 by Peter Viney
The 60s retrospective series gets to THE FAMILY WAY (linked). Premiered just before Christmas 1966, but really a 1967 film. It’s most famous for the Paul McCartney soundtrack, but that’s unfair. It’s a family comedy drama, amusing rather than knockabout, with excellent character work. It stars Hayley Mills, John Mills, Hywel Bennett, Marjorie Rhodes, Avril Angers, Murray Head and John Comber. Well worth rewatching.
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The Inspection … article
08/04/2020 by Peter Viney
It’s in the ELT section, THE INSPECTION (linked). Watching Dominic Raab having to take over at no notice took me back 45 years to my first day as a Head of Department which coincided with a government inspection … it has some ELT relevance on the use of boards in class!
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Pages
- A Feast of Shakespeare
- biblio.
- Fast Track introduction
- Fast Track Question & Answer
- Garnet Oracle Readers
- Grapevine reviews
- Handshake reviews
- In English interview 2003
- In English Starter syllabus
- Oracle Classics
- Oracle Readers Illustration
- Reviews of IN English
- Streamline and IN English
- Streamline English – A History
- The EFL Novels by Dart Travis
- biodata
- Dear England
- ELT
- “Drama Evenings”
- 01: Classic Picture Stories
- 2015 Language Literature Awards
- A Publishing Alternative History
- Alan Tankard
- Bernard Hartley 1940-2002
- Chris Owen
- ELT Articles
- A coursebook writer responds …
- Apostrophes
- Audio Books
- Authentic? Or memorable?
- British and American English 1
- British and American English 2
- Changing the focus of Teacher Training
- Choosing a text book
- Colour My World
- Comparison
- Corpus and textbook
- Correcting students
- Course Books
- Doesn’t anyone teach intonation anymore?
- ELT News Japan interview
- Empowering (?) students
- Empowering and Motivating
- Eng. Lit. in Britain Past
- Fixing A Hole
- Forbidden Words
- Gender and language teaching
- Geography and history in Britain past
- Grading
- Have got
- How Just William Got Me Into Grammar School
- How NOT to write …
- I don’t like Mondays
- If your face fits … continuous assessment
- In Your Town …
- Increasing language output
- Influential ELT Books
- Language Learning in Britain Past
- Language viruses: politics
- Listening and mobiles
- MacDonaldization & UnCola
- Maths in Britain past
- MATSDA Interview 2007
- Mr Brown or Gordon?
- Music, Art & Divinity in Britain Past
- New Class? First lesson
- Peer observation
- Personality teaching?
- Poems in ELT Classes
- Politics, religion and ELT
- Possessive pronouns
- Preparing Reading Schemes
- Proverbs and clichés
- Reading Fast
- Robert O’Neill
- Status of ELT Teaching
- Stressed endings
- Student Talking Time
- Teacher Independence
- Teaching trivia?
- TESOL-Arabia 2010
- Thatcherite
- The Dead Hand of the CEF
- The End of Term …
- The Inspection …
- The Invisible Person
- The RP Club
- The Wrong Trousers interview
- Theme Park English
- Time for A Song
- What makes a good teacher?
- What’s In A Name?
- Why copyright?
- Writing in Collaboration
- ZZZ … Travelogues
- Greek Affairs
- John Curtin
- Nick Keeping, 1950-1999
- Pinter & Me
- Streamline revisited …
- The Swiss Connection
- film
- “Wuthering Heights”
- 12 Years A Slave
- 1917
- A Complete Unknown
- A Family At War (TV)
- A Very Peculiar Practice – Series One
- A Very Peculiar Practice – Series Two
- A Very Polish Practice
- Across The Universe
- After Love
- Agora
- All The King’s Men
- American Hustle
- An Unexpected Journey: The Hobbit Part 1
- Anna Karenina
- Another Year
- August Osage County
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- Bank of Dave
- Bank of Dave II: The Loan Ranger
- Barbie
- Being The Ricardos
- Belfast
- Birdman
- BlacKkKlansman
- Blithe Spirit (2020 film)
- Boiling Point
- Boyhood
- Bridesmaids
- Bridge of Spies
- Bridgerton
- Burlesque
- Captain Phillips
- Carnage
- Carol
- Cemetery Junction
- Centurion
- Chipwrecked
- Conclave
- Crazy Heart
- Cyrano
- Dad’s Army
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- Darkest Hour
- Date Night
- Dawn of The Planet of The Apes
- Death On The Nile (2022)
- Dogtooth
- Don’t Look Up
- Downton Abbey
- Downton Abbey: A New Era
- Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
- Dunkirk
- Eight Days A Week
- Elvis
- Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
- Every Day’s A Holiday
- Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
- Ex machina
- Exodus: Gods and Kings
- Far From The Madding Crowd (2015)
- Fortunes of War
- Frankenstein (2025)
- Furry Vengeance
- Gambit
- Get Back (Part 1)
- Get Back (Part 2)
- Get Back (Part 3)
- Giant
- Gladiator II
- Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
- Gravity 3D
- Greed
- Hail Caesar!
- Hanna
- High Rise
- Horrible Bosses
- Hostiles
- House of Gucci
- How To Build A Girl
- How To Train Your Dragon
- I Capture the Castle
- Inception
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Inside Out
- Invictus
- Jane Eyre
- Jason Bourne
- Jersey Boys
- Joy
- Jurassic World
- Jurassic World: Dominion
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Jurassic World: Rebirth
- King & Conqueror – Episode 1
- King Charles III – TV version
- Knight and Day
- La La Land
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Les Misérables
- Little Joe
- Love and Mercy
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
- Made in Dagenham
- Mank
- Marie-Antoinette
- Misbehaviour
- Missing Link
- Mothering Sunday
- Mr Burton
- 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
- Rattle of A Simple Man
- 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 Ballad of Wallis Island
- 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 Famous Five: Peril on The Night Train
- The Famous Five: The Curse of Kirrin Island
- 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 Outfit
- 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
- Triangle of Sadness
- Twisters
- 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 White Bus
- 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
- Much Ado About Nothing- Jamie Lloyd, 2025
- music
- 45 rpm records …
- 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
- Average White Band
- Bap Kennedy
- Bellowhead 2.2013
- Bellowhead 2014
- Bellowhead 2016
- Bellowhead 7.2013
- Bellowhead 7.2015
- Ben Portsmouth: This is Elvis
- Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2011
- Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings 2013
- Bob Dylan – 2022
- Bob Dylan – 2024
- Bob Dylan 2002
- Bob Dylan 2006
- Bob Dylan 2017
- Bonnie Raitt, Hyde Park 2018
- Brian Wilson
- BSO: Coming to America
- BSO: Seeta’s Rite
- BSO: Smooth Valentine Classics
- BSO: Triumphal Elgar
- Caitlin Rose
- Carole King – Hyde Park
- Chris Rea
- Chuck Prophet & Stephanie Finch
- Cliff Richard 2018
- Crosby, Stills & Nash
- Dave Kelly, Maggie Bell, BBQ
- Dexys
- Don Henley – Hyde Park
- Dr John
- Eleanor McEvoy
- Eliza Carthy
- Eliza Carthy & Jon Boden’s Wassail
- Emma Swift
- Emmylou Harris
- Fay Hield 2013
- Fay Hield 2014
- Fay Hield 2016
- Fleetwood Mac 2003
- FLIT
- Garth Hudson – an encounter
- 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
- John Wetton: An Extraordinary Life
- 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
- Lisa O’Neill
- 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 2016
- Natalie Merchant 2023
- NKOTB
- Norah Jones 2023
- P.P. Arnold 2019
- P.P.Arnold 2025
- 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 2026
- Spiers & Boden 5.13
- Spiers & Boden, 6.13
- Spiers and Boden 2014
- Spirit Family Reunion
- 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 Two of Us: Lennon & McCartney
- 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 2024
- The Unthanks 5.2017
- The Waterboys
- The Zombies
- The Zombies – 2024
- Thea Gilmore
- Tom Jones
- Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch tour
- Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary
- Van Morrison
- Ward Thomas, 2025
- 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 Potato Album
- 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 life in cars …
- A life written in wine
- A Post-Brexit Vision
- Agatha Christie: Deduction in a dell’arte mask
- Allergies … and lawyers
- Baby Boomer v Wokeperson
- Barcodes
- Beaujolais Nouveau …
- Benign ghosts of Christmas Past
- 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
- Best of 2023 – Theatre
- Best of 2024 – theatre
- Best of 2025 – Theatre
- Car park tickets
- Cars are cars
- Chorizo is Vile
- Christmas Markets
- Christmases long past …
- Civil Wars & Statues
- Climate Change: my rant
- Communication skills: Leaders TV debate 2015
- Crisis at the Cash Register
- Crisps: A history
- Culture Shock Bourbon Street
- Cycling in London (and elsewhere)
- Driver Awareness Courses
- Encounter: Saul Bellow
- Eurovision 2022
- Fawlty Towers and Tall Poppies
- Flags and anthems
- Football nicknames
- For Fox Sake!
- 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
- Mutiny on the Bowling Alley
- Neither of Either
- Not an amazing grace
- On The Road: Information overkill
- Parent and child spaces
- Pee’d off
- Phones, concerts and copyright
- Planning
- 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
- Suits
- Supermarket check-outs
- Surveys
- Tales of A & E
- Testing in schools
- The “Poldark” Effect
- The 1950s Children’s Park
- 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 and fall of the publishing lunch
- 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 pink and the blue
- The Shakespeare Cod-Piece
- The Stitch Up
- Triple cooked what?
- Tulips April 2023
- View From The Queue
- Walk Don’t Run
- 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
- 1984 – stage version
- 2:22 – A Ghost Story
- 8 Hotels
- A Chorus of Disapproval
- 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 – Everyman 2024
- 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 – Globe 2023
- 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 – RSC 2024
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Selladoor 2013
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Wanamaker 2025
- 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 – 2014
- A View From The Bridge – 2023
- A View From The Bridge – 2024
- A Woman of No Importance
- Abigail’s Party 2013
- Absolute Hell
- After the Dance – BBC, 1992
- Ah, Wilderness!
- Albion
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical
- 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
- Anna Karenina
- 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 – Bath 2025
- As You Like It – Globe 2015
- As You Like It – Globe 2018
- As You Like It – Globe 2023
- As You Like It – National 2015
- As You Like It – RSC 2019
- As You Like It – RSC 2023
- As You Like It – RSC 2024
- As You Like It RSC 2013
- Assassins
- Awful Auntie
- Bakkhai
- Balletboyz: The Talent
- Barber Shop Chronicles
- Bartholomew Fair
- Beauty & The Beast (Ballet Theatre UK)
- Before The Party
- Ben and Imo
- Birdsong (2024)
- Birthday
- Bitter Wheat
- Black Comedy
- Blithe Spirit – 2025
- Blithe Spirit – Bath 2010
- Blithe Spirit – Bath 2019
- Blood Wedding
- Blue Beard
- Blues For An Alabama Sky
- Boudica
- Bring Up The Bodies
- Broken
- California Connections:
- Candida
- Cardenio
- Carmen Disruption
- Caroline or Change
- Choir
- Come Into The Garden, Maud
- Comedy of Errors – Globe
- Comedy of Errors – Globe 2023
- Comedy of Errors – RSC, 2021
- Comedy of Errors NT 2012
- Comedy of Errors RSC ’12
- Communicating Doors
- Comus
- Copenhagen
- Coram Boy
- Coriolanus – NT Live
- Coriolanus – RSC
- Crazy For You
- Curiosity Shop
- Cymbeline – RSC 2016
- Cymbeline – RSC 2023
- Cymbeline – Wanamaker
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Dancing at Lughnasa – 2023
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