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  Sexy Greedy: Caryl Churchill, the City Comedy, and the World Big Bang Made

  Serious Money: A deep dive into an essential English drama

  June 2, 2026
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  PIG IRON 6B: The Work of Love

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore how Care is and Should be Valued

  May 28, 2026
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  What’s the Big Idea

  A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.

  May 20, 2026
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  Medea @sohoplace theatre review *****

  Medea @sohoplace, 17thh March 2023 April 431 BCE. Day 5. City Dionysia. Athens. Aeschylus’s boy Euphorion has already paraded his dramatic wares as has arch-rival (and more successful) Sophocles. Euripides rocks up with his 3 tragedies, Dictys (no, me neither), Philoctetes (misanthropic soldier, later a winning tale for Sophocles) and,…

  March 21, 2023
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  Catching up (Part 3)

  April 2020 to December 2020 In which the Tourist condenses down 2020, in and out of lockdown, mostly watching stuff on a screen. Don’t worry he also took walks, saw punters when permitted and growled at the state of his disappointing nation, but it is only now he is back…

  November 5, 2021
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  Swive at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse review ****

  Swive Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, 3rd February 2020 I am very partial to the work of Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent, Boys, Oil, The Writer, ANNA, all have met their, expansive, ambition. Splendid theatre with something powerful to say. With Swive she has collaborated with director Natalie Abrahami, (who marshalled cast…

  April 17, 2020
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  As You Like It at the Barbican Theatre review ***

  As You Like It Barbican Theatre, 15th January 2020 As You Like It? Not really like this. Mind you I have yet to see a production of the play that really bowled me over. The NT production from 2016 directed by Polly Findlay looked great, office chairs becoming the Forest…

  March 1, 2020
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  The Taming of the Shrew at the Barbican review ***

  The Taming of the Shrew Barbican Theatre, 2nd January 2020 What to do with Taming of the Shrew. Pretend the framing device with Sly deceived by Milord gets you off the hook. Not sure audiences buy that. Mine the text very carefully and add detail through direction which undermines the…

  February 9, 2020
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  Much Ado About Nothing at Wiltons Music Hall review ****

  Much Ado About Nothing Wilton’s Music Hall, 19th November 2019 The Tourist has been very much taken with previous Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory productions, Othello and Henry V, both here and on home turf in Bristol. This latest, MAAN, directed by Elizabeth Freestone, as was Henry V, and who…

  December 16, 2019
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  The Doctor at the Almeida Theatre review *****

  The Doctor Almeida Theatre, 13th September 2019 He’s only gone and done it again. Robert Icke, the departing Associate Director at the Almeida, has ended on a high. Like that is any great surprise. Once again he has taken a classic text, this time Arthur Schnitzler’s dissection of anti-Semitism in…

  October 25, 2019