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Best of 2019- Music

 

SEE ALSO:
Best of 2019- Theatre
Best of 2019 – Concerts

The issue is the same as last year. What percentage of new releases am I considering? Heard? Heard of?

Let’s take UNCUT’s Top 75 albums of 2019. I have just four and I’ve never even heard of #1 (Weyes Blood). I have #7, Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen, #20 Jaime by Brittany Howard, #22 Thanks For The Dance by Leonard Cohen, #57 Out of Sight by Jake Xerxes Fussell.

I do better on their reissues … #1 Rolling Thunder Revue by Bob Dylan, #2 Abbey Road by The Beatles. #15 Arthur by The Kinks, #23 Travelin’ Thru by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, though obviously I have originals of 1999 by Prince and No Other by Gene Clark.

Turn to Mojo’s 40 best: #3Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen, #11  Jaime by Brittany Howard, #18 New Adventures of P.P. Arnold, , #33 Out of Sight by Jake Xerxes Fussell. , #37 Thanks For The Dance by Leonard Cohen, #39 We Get By by Mavis Staples .

Reissues in Mojo?  #1 Abbey Road by The Beatles, #2 Rolling Thunder Revue by Bob Dylan, #8 You’re The Man by Marvin Gaye, #17, Woodstock: 50th Anniversary.

Yet I buy at least one CD every week, usually more. Surprise? I don’t rate Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen in the Top Ten, possibly not in the Top 20. It just failed to get to me. Nor did Who by The Who.

I buy a lot of vinyl, and mainly it’s old. Vintage? Heritage? Heirloom? Well, old. I listen to a lot of old vinyl. This year, recovering from an operation I did a long article on Nancy Sinatra for Toppermost, and an even longer one for this blog. I then started on Lee Hazlewood, so they’re my two most listened to artists this year. (Natalie Merchant last year). None of it was new material.

So deep breath …

MY 10 ALBUMS of 2019

1  The New Adventures of P.P. Arnold

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Too many male artists this year, but at least P.P. Arnold gets deserved best album. Great live show this year, even if she didn’t sing Daltry Street, one of the best tracks, nor the long Last Thoughts of Woody Guthrie. Most of the rest, she did. Still the greatest soul singer resident in the UK.

2  My Brilliant Friend (OST): Max Richter

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This is probably my most played album of 2019. I have it on my iPad and I usually listen to it just before drifting off to sleep! Not that I could name any tracks. I could have added more Max Richter too. Hostiles OST was a contender.

3  Sinematic: Robbie Robertson

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I bought the CD and the vinyl. My favourite track is Walk in Beauty Way, with Laura Satterfield. He should do more work with female singers. I Hear You Paint Houses from The Irishman is a duet with Van Morrison. Once Were Brothers is also outstanding. Let Love Reign is a fine revisit to the Smokestack Lightning riff at the start.

4  Three Chords & The Truth: Van Morrison

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I’d begun to think Van was turning out far too many mediocre albums, then he drops in with his best in many years.

5  Other People’s Stuff: John Mellencamp

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Basically, a compilation of earlier cover versions and released right at the end of 2018. Some great tracks too … I always thought Ry Cooder defined Teardrops Will Fall but this one rivals it.

6 Thanks For The Dance: Leonard Cohen

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Posthumous incantations, lovingly assembled and backed.

7  Reckless & Me: Keifer Sutherland

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Jack Bauer sings. We saw him live … he really is good. This is no Richard Chamberlain cashing in on Dr Kildare … this is great Americana. Try Saskatchewan and Faded Pair of Blue Jeans.

8  Undress: The Felice Brothers

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I can’t have a Best of … without a Felice, but in the absence of Simone this year, the brothers get it.

9  Out of Sight: Jake Xerxes Fussell

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Try Jubilee.

10  Mad Lad: A Live Tribute to Chuck Berry: Ronnie Wood

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Recorded at the Tivoli, Wimborne, my favourite local venue. Who needs another white boys band covering Johnny B. Goode? OK, but he does some of my personal favourites … Talking About You, Little Queenie, Worried Life Blues, Blue Feeling and Wee Wee Hours. Imelda May sings Wee Wee Hours too.

MY 10 TRACKS of 2019

1  Different Drum: P.P. Arnold

Live version on YouTube linked. This was the band I saw at Newbury (link to review),with Steve Craddock on guitar. Go for it, Pat!

They remade the 1998 single version (produced by Steve Craddock)  for the new album, still with lots and lots of rhythmic strings. This is the studio version (LINKED).They managed extremely well live on stage. It was written by Mike Nesmith, who submitted it to The Monkees producers who rejected it. So it went to The Greenbriar Boys for a bluegrass version, then Linda Ronstadt with The Stone Poneys had an international hit with it in 1967. There are many versions. P.P. Arnold’s is the best whether in its 1998 incarnation or its 2019 remake.

2  Walk in Beauty Way: Robbie Robertson & Laura Satterfield

Laura Satterfield worked with Robbie Robertson at the Agrigento shows after Music From The Native Americans with her aunts Rita and Priscilla Coolidge.

3  Daltry Street: P.P. Arnold

Yes, a second track, which is why it was the #1 album for me. Written by Coby Fletcher.

4  Fame Will Eat The Soul: Van Morrison & Bill Medley

Van Morrison AND a Righteous Brother! Van always worked well with other singers … Chris Farlowe, Tom Jones, Georgie Fame, Brian Kennedy. Er, Cliff Richard. Bill Medley is an all-time great. The Hammond organ harks back to the Beautiful Vision era (as does the melody.)

5  Saskatchewan: Keifer Sutherland

Moving lyric. I bounced between this and Faded Pair of Blue Jeans. See also a LIVE VERSION in Licoln, Nebraska (noisy audience)

6  Happens To The Heart: Leonard Cohen

Link to official video. I can’t get enough of Leonard’s voice.

7  Wee Wee Hours: Ronnie Wood & His Wild Five,  with Imelda May

For the British, this Chuck Berry song was on the essential Pye International (US Chess) compilation The Blues Volume II. We all had it. And The Blues Volume 1. They put a Chuck which went with Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters and Little Walter. On the earlier one was Worried Life Blues also covered here. Recorded Live at my local venue: The Tivoli Wimborne, Dorset.

8  Dark As The Dungeon; John Mellencamp

A Merle Travis song from 1946, on this great album of cover versions.

9  Quicksilver Girl: Rickie Lee Jones

From her album Kicks. This is my favourite Steve Miller Band song (no relation to David Milliband or Ed Milliband). I have spent many many happy hours with Steve Miller’s version playing it over and over while writing the character of Marieke in the “Dart Travis” novel Pulling Into Nazareth, so this had to be very good to hold my attention. It did (but my Sophie’s Choice would still be the original).

10  Piece of Clay – Marvin Gaye

When You’re The Man emerged this year, much was made of this as the best track. It’s NOT its first airing … it was on a box set Marvin Gaye: The Master 1961 to 1984 (4 CD box set, 1995) , then Robbie Robertson curated it for the soundtrack of Phenomenon in 1996. But its presence as a great unreleased 1972 single brings it back to mind and I have played it a lot!

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It missed last year, though it was released in September 2018. It should have been there in 2018. I caught up with it in 2019 and it was on my 2019 playlist. Near the top.

The Stones I Throw: Amy Helm

Levon & The Hawks single on Atlantic from 1965. Written by Robbie Robertson. Sung by Levon’s daughter, Amy Helm. It’s been a major earworm for months.

 

REISSUES of 2019

A further year of mega box sets.

1=   The Band: The Band

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The De Luxe box set. My favourite album of all time, remastered. I love the 5.1 surround sound Blu-Ray (and had found the Music From Big Pink remaster too clean and shrill in comparison).This is much better. The original album is now on two LPs at 45 rpm – that is 12″ single speed.  And you get the remastered unreleased (though heavily bootlegged) Woodstock 1969 set. Plus lots of pictures. I didn’t find any new light shed by the text though.

1 =  Abbey Road: The Beatles

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Super De Luxe Box Set. Two equal number ones.In December 1969 I stood outside HMV in Oxford Street. Three albums filled the window display: The Band (their best album), Abbey Road (Side two is their best album side)  and Let it Bleed (Definitely The Rolling Stones best album). The Rolling Stones box set was of no interest … mono, stereo on LP and CD. Nothing new. Abbey Road gives the full works. Shame about Octopussy’s Garden, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and I Want You on Side One then. Remastered and remixed too, by Giles Martin. The 5.1 mix on Side Two of the LP is phenomenal. When George plays bass guitar on one track you can hear his speakers farting (I thought mine were going first time).

3   Arthur: The Kinks

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Beautiful package, as with The Village Green Preservation Society (but that was a better album intrinsically). Still wonderful.

4  You’re The Man: Marvin Gaye

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Allegedly the lost 1972 album. Also this year sees What’s Going On Live. Marvin Gaye was one of the best few live performers I’ve ever seen.

5  Woodstock: 50th Anniversary

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Available as … the full 39 disc box set, or the 10 CD super de-luxe, a 5 LP set or a mere 3 CD.

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      • 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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