Category: Birmingham
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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at the Rose Kingston review *****
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Rose Theatre Kingston, 12th May 2019 WELL F*CK ME. LITERALLY AS I WAS ABOUT TO PUBLISH THIS POST I SEE THAT THE PRODUCTION HAS SECURED A RUN AT THE HAROLD PINTER THEATRE IN JULY AND AUGUST. EXACTLY WHAT I HOPED FOR. YEAH !!!!!!! Never read the book.…
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Edmond de Bergerac at Richmond Theatre review ****
Edmond de Bergerac Richmond Theatre, 1st May 2019 Alexis Michalik is a loving looking chap. Oozes Gallic charm. The wunderkind of French theatre. So its good to know he is half-British. He kicked off as an actor but it is his plays, which have run to packed houses in Paris…
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Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain review ****
Edward Burne Jones Tate Britain, 11th November 2018 Turns out Burne-Jones isn’t quite as awful as I had previously thought. Don’t get me wrong. All that hippy-dippy, fey, dreamy. dusky-toned, doe-eyed, ginger-permed, long-bodied, nymph-y, mannequin-esque, briar-strewn, Arthurian, industrialisation-denying, fake-Medieval, cod-Renaissance daubing is still guaranteed to do my head in. But…
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 