Thursday, 31 January 2013

Theatre Review: The Turn of the Screw (Almeida)

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Henry James’s suggestiveness and super-subtlety get fairly short shrift in Lindsay Posner’s rather laborious new production of The ...
Monday, 21 January 2013

Theatre Review: Old Times (Harold Pinter Theatre)

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“You see, this is our marvellous Bard, Barbara: you cannot paraphrase. It’s not like Pinter where you can more or less say w...
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Theatre Review: The Silence of the Sea (Trafalgar Studios)

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France, the early 1940s. A German officer, Werner (Leo Bill), is billeted at the coastal home of a man (Finbar Lynch) and his pianist n...

Gig Review: The Counterfeit Stones (Richmond & touring)

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“Knock up your daughters!” shrieks the none-too-subtle (and none-too-PC) poster for The Counterfeit Stones’ current tour. It’s a t...

Being Between Borders: The Cinema of Claire Denis

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At the end of last year I wrote a piece on immigration in Claire Denis's work for the Kubrick on the Guillotine website. You...
Thursday, 3 January 2013

Film Review: Quartet (Hoffman, 2012)

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“This isn’t a retirement home - it’s a madhouse!” quavers Maggie Smith, inimitably, as her character observes a Salsa class full of g...
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Friday, 28 December 2012

End of Year Review: Theatre - 10 Favourite Productions of 2012

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Long Day's Journey Into Night I cut down on theatre-going this year, an attempt at dross-dodging that didn’t really pay off, ...
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