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Category: History

• Community Culture Economics Film History Manchester Politics

  Peterloo film review ****

  Peterloo, 2nd November 2018 I doubt that there has ever been a more carefully researched, painstakingly assembled or more vividly imagined “history” film than Peterloo. If you like Mike Leigh (I do) you are going to love this. If you like British social, economic and political history (I do) you…

  November 9, 2018
• art Culture Georgian History Literature London Prints Theatre

  Hogarth’s Progress at the Rose Kingston review ***

  Hogarth’s Progress: The Art of Success and The Taste of the Town Rose Theatre Kingston, 21st October 2018 South West London was a popular place for the cultural, liberal, metropolitan elite in the first half of the C18. It still is. Hogarth, Horace Walpole, David Garrick, Henry Fielding, Alexander Pope,…

  October 29, 2018
• Culture Feminism History London Sport Theatre

  The Sweet Science of Bruising at the Southwark Playhouse review ****

  The Sweet Science of Bruising Southwark Playhouse, 16th October 2018 Now that MS, BD and LD have turned into exemplars of their youthful generation, (I am their Dad so may be biased), we no longer watch Doctor Who. However with Malorie Blackman, Ed Hime, Pete McTighe and Vinay Patel (An Adventure…

  October 23, 2018
• Colonialism Culture History India London Politics Theatre

  An Adventure at the Bush Theatre review ****

  An Adventure Bush Theatre, 26th September 2018 Now I cannot pretend that, when the lovely people at the Bush moved the matinee performance of An Adventure that I attended forward by an hour, and indicated it had metamorphosed into a three hour plus extravaganza, I wasn’t concerned. And reading the…

  October 11, 2018
• Culture History London Renaissance Spain Theatre

  Losing Venice at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

  Losing Venice Orange Tree Theatre, 24th September 2018 A modicum of research was all that was required to realise that this was going to be a curious, but also intriguing, entertainment. Which is near enough exactly what it was. Jo Clifford’s play was a hit at the Edinburgh fringe when…

  October 8, 2018
• Culture History Politics Shakespeare Theatre War

  Henry V at the Tobacco Factory Bristol review *****

  Henry V Tobacco Factory Theatre, 22nd September 2018 Hello. I feel another bout of hyperbole coming on. It could just be that cumulative exposure is making me realise what the smarter punters and all the luvvies have known for hundreds of years, that nothing comes close to Shakespeare. It could…

  October 3, 2018
• Culture History Ireland London Religion Theatre

  Aristocrats at the Donmar Warehouse review ****

  Aristocrats Donmar Warehouse, 20th September 2018 Brian Friel, like his own dramatist hero Chekhov, can take a bit of time to get going. Faith Healer, at this theatre a couple of years ago, exerted a vice like grip on me from the open, though that may have been because it…

  October 2, 2018
• Culture Economics History London Theatre USA

  The Lehman Trilogy at the National Theatre review *****

  The Lehman Trilogy National Theatre Lyttleton, 18th September 2018 So I gather this staging of Stefano Massimi’s play The Lehman Trilogy is a very different take from that lauded across Europe after its premiere in 2015 in Italy. No cast of thousands here. Just three amazing actors in Simon Russell…

  September 29, 2018
• art Culture Exhibition History London Photography Prints War

  Aftermath at Tate Britain review ****

  Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One Tate Britain, 29th August 2018 Historians abhor teleology these days. It’s a tricky business identifying events that “changed the history of the world”. For us simple layfolk though the First World War must surely mark a defining shift in the human…

  September 9, 2018
• Culture History London Theatre

  Translations at the National Theatre review ****

  Translations National Theatre Olivier, 6th June 2018 At the end of the day it is all about the words. That’s theatre. The power of language. Which is exactly what Brian Friel’s play is all about. A modern classic, first seen in 1980, in Derry (with Stephen Rea, Liam Neeson and…

  June 18, 2018