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Simone Felice 2016 review

14/10/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of Simone Felice in Winchester, 13th October 2016. Our favourite singer-songwriter’s opening gig on his UK and Ireland tour. Completely solo this time, with brilliant new songs too.

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The Girl On The Train review

05/10/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of “The Girl On The Train” the film based on the #1 best-selling novel. Starring Emily Blunt as Rachel. Relocated from London to New York too. Will fans of the book like it? Tolerate it? Hate it? Read the review and see.

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Eight Days A Week – review

29/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of Ron Howard’s film Eight Days A Week (linked), a superb documentary on The Beatles touring years, with an additional 30 minute film of Shea Stadium 15th August 1965. Lots of thoughts on my own early fascination with The Beatles.

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Imogen (Cymbeline) Globe review

26/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of Imogen (Shakespeare’s Cymbeline Renamed and Reclaimed) (FOLLOW LINK) at The Globe Theatre. Perhaps the most controversial production of 2016 with a setting of drug gangs in East London. Exhilarating theatre. But is it Shakespeare‘s Globe as we know it?

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Two Gentlemen of Verona – Globe 2016

25/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Review added of The Globe / Liverpool Everyman touring production of Two Gentlemen of Verona (FOLLOW LINK). Set in 1966, with a pop band on stage. We saw it at the candle lit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, for a weird contrast in styles.

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Someone will call you back …

21/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Article added to RANTS on Someone will call you back … i.e. the fact that nowadays you never get through to companies on the phone. They call you back at THEIR convenience.

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The Rover – review

18/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of The Rover   (FOLLOW LINK) by Aphra Behn, at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford. Aphra Behn was Britain’s first woman playwright, and this 1677 play is full of fun … dance, English cavaliers, three feisty sexy sisters, Latin American music, proud Spanish dons, sword fights, a laugh a minute. It has everything. It runs until February. One to see … watch out for RSC Live to cinema too.

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Language Learning In Britain Past link

16/09/2016 by Peter Viney

As the article on The Dead Hand of the CEF has been read by so many, I thought I’d add another Language teaching Rant. Language Learning in Britain Past  (LINKED) is about how my own negative experiences of language learning shaped my beliefs on how to teach English as A Foreign Language. Do comment on the article, not on this post.

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Dedication review

15/09/2016 by Peter Viney

Review of Dedication – Shakespeare & Southampton, currently premiered at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton and running for a month. The play explores the relationship of Shakespeare and the 3rd Earl of Southampton through alternate versions of the rumours and speculations on their relationship.

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The Dead Hand of the CEF – link

13/09/2016 by Peter Viney

One for language teachers, a new ELT article on “The Dead Hand of The Common European Framework” on textbooks … and in French, Spanish and German textbooks as well as English ones. Please comment on the article itself rather on this post.

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