Category: Culture
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Bodies at the Southwark Playhouse review ****
Bodies Southwark Playhouse, 26th February 2019 Two’s Company is a theatre company which set out to explore plays written at the time of the Great War but has subsequently gone on to stage the English premiere of Hemingway’s only play and some Pinter productions. Here it has revived one of…
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Alys, Always at the Bridge Theatre review ****
Alys, Always Bridge Theatre, 25th February 2019 Said it before and I’ll say it again. You have to be careful with adaptations of novels and/or films on stage. There may be enough in character and plot to justify the transfer but there may not always, (no pun intended), be enough…
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The Lady From The Sea at the Print Room Coronet review ****
The Lady From The Sea Print Room Coronet, 20th February 2019 Hummed and hawed about this one. Never been entirely sure about TLFTS when compared to other Ibsen’s, was not bowled over by it’s last London outing at the Donmar, couldn’t get the cheap Wednesday seat option (that is a…
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The Tempest at Greenwich Theatre review ****
The Tempest Greenwich Theatre, 16th February 2019 As my dear old mum would say “sometimes Michael you would forget your head if it wasn’t screwed on”. Not for the first time the Tourist managed to leave the programme for this performance by Lazarus Theatre Company of The Tempest in a…
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I Am Ashurbanipal exhibition at the British Museum review ****
I Am Ashurbanipal King of the World, King of Assyria British Museum, 15th February 2019 Crikey. Those Assyrians had a way with reliefs carved in gypsum/alabaster. Even if it was primarily all in the service of terrifying aggrandisement. The King hunting, the King and his soldiers slaying his enemies, the…
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The American Clock at the Old Vic review ***
The American Clock Old Vic Theatre, 11th February 2019 All the reviews will tell you the same thing. This was not one of Arthur Miller’s finest moments. Mind you his finest moments are amongst the greatest in theatrical history so the bar is set pretty high. A series of vignettes,…