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  Chameleons or Charlatans: Our Conclusion

  Chameleons or Charlatans. The Verdict? Maybe.

  July 3, 2026
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  Chameleons or Charlatans: Doris Lessing

  Doris Lessing. I will not. No mythology of genius, no performance of difficulty, no self-destruction.

  June 30, 2026
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  Chameleons or Charlatans: The Art of Reinvention

  Six artists. Six art forms. One century. One question: did any of them actually escape the machinery before it sold them back to us?

  June 25, 2026
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  A History of British Architecture: Wren, the City, and the Long Georgian Century c. 1660 to 1830

  A meander through the history of British Architecture by era. Wren, the City, and the Long Georgian Century c. 1660 to 1800

  May 19, 2026
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  Catching up (Part 2)

  March 2020 First week of March 2020. I see that I was still out and about but I also see that I avoided a few entertainments before the cancellations started in earnest and the first lockdown kicked in. I remember feeling a little nervous but obviously no precautions taken apart…

  October 25, 2021
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  The Tin Drum at the Coronet Theatre review *****

  The Tin Drum The Coronet Theatre, 24th February 2020 I know. This is ridiculous. Posting some comments on something the Tourist saw over 18 months ago. But I started. So I’ll finish. And with some cracking live theatre now under his belt, the Tourist’s cultural mojo is back with a…

  October 1, 2021
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  Death in Venice at the Royal Opera House *****

  Death in Venice Royal Opera House, 3rd December 2019 Fresh from the superlative semi-staged version of Peter Grimes from Ed Gardner, the Bergen PO and assorted chums and straight into this. A top drawer new version of Death in Venice from David McVicar. I have fond memories of seeing Deborah…

  January 26, 2020
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  The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory review *****

  The Watsons Menier Chocolate Factory, 16th November 2019 Fannyed about and failed to book this when it came to Chichester. Wasn’t about to make the same mistake again so quick off the mark when the transfer to the MCF was announced and a three line whip to include the SO…

  December 10, 2019
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  The Lovely Bones at the Rose Theatre Kingston review *****

  The Lovely Bones Rose Theatre Kingston, 26th October 2019 The Lovely Bones, co-produced by Birmingham Rep, Royal and Derngate, Northern Stage and Liverpool Everyman, is just to wrap up its tour in Chichester. If you saw it good on you. If you didn’t then make sure you sign up for…

  November 27, 2019
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  Jude at the Hampstead Theatre review ***

  Jude Hampstead Theatre, 8th May 2019 I am guessing if you are the playwright responsible for The Churchill Play, Epsom Downs, The Romans in Britain, Pravda, Paul, 55 Days and Lawrence After Arabia you can get to write pretty much what you like. Especially if you plainly have a history…

  May 21, 2019
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  Billy Budd at the Royal Opera House review ****

  Billy Budd Royal Opera House, 7th May 2019 The corruption of innocence, the struggle of good vs evil, Christ-like redemption and Pilate-like equivocation, the conflict between natural and legal justice, the outsider’s struggle for acceptance, repressed, scopophiliac, homosexual desire, the rational, scientific world contrasted with the mythic poetry of the…

  May 20, 2019
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  The Remains of the Day at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre review *****

  The Remains of the Day Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, 13th April 2019 Right all you good citizens of Derby, Salisbury, Cambridge and Bristol. There is still time for you to book tickets to see this excellent adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s celebrated novel The Remains of the Day. A very well…

  April 25, 2019