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Category: London

• Culture London Theatre

  The Height of the Storm at Richmond Theatre review ****

  The Height of the Storm Richmond Theatre, 5th September 2018 I can’t deny that Florian Zeller is a gifted playwright. I am just not sure his work is for me. I saw The Father at this very house in 2016 with Kenneth Cranham in the lead role. Centering on an…

  September 18, 2018
• Culture Film London Politics USA

  Blackkklansman film review ****

  Blackkklansman, 30th August 2018 Spike Lee is 61 years old. This photo is a few years old but there is still a twinkle in his eye if you ask me. That twinkle, the eye for mischief, has been in his films from the start. Now I can’t pretend that I…

  September 17, 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 London Politics Theatre

  The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Noel Coward Theatre review *****

  The Lieutenant of Inishmore Noel Coward Theatre, 31st August 2018 My regular reader, (hello), will need no reminding, (OK maybe they will), that I am a massive fan of Mr Martin McDonagh. Hangmen is the best new play I have seen in the last 3 years, indeed one of the…

  September 7, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  Home I’m Darling at the National Theatre review ***

  Home, I’m Darling National Theatre Dorfman, 29th August 2018 N.B. Home I’m Darling is transferring to the Duke of York’s Theatre from 26th January 2019 for 11 weeks and then toddles off on tour to Theatre Royal Bath, The Lowry and Theatr Clywd. Now I have to confess to a…

  September 4, 2018
• Classics Community Culture London Theatre

  Pericles at the National Theatre review *****

  Pericles National Theatre Olivier, 26th August 2018 So how do you like your theatre? Or more particularly how do your like your Shakespeare? Utterly faithful to the First Folio? Set in the time and place that big Will intended (however baffling)? All blokes in tights? Performed by elite, public school…

  September 2, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  The Silk Road at Trafalgar Studios review ****

  The Silk Road Trafalgar Studios 2, 23rd August 2018 The modern day Silk Road was the first major darknet marketplace, closed down in 2013 when the FBI arrested its alleged founder Ross Ulbricht and banged him up for life. I didn’t know that. As far as I was concerned it…

  September 2, 2018
• Classics Culture London Politics Theatre

  Imperium at the Gielgud Theatre review ****

  Imperium I Conspirator and Imperium II Dictator Gielgud Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, 18th July and 25th August 2018 I don’t read much. Don’t have the patience or the imagination. Much easier to get my kicks from the theatre, or from film, where other people can do all the hard work.…

  August 31, 2018
• Culture London Philosophy Theatre

  Exit the King at the National Theatre review ****

  Exit the King National Theatre Olivier, 15th August 2018 My first Ionesco play, albeit in a version adapted by ubiquitous wunderkind Patrick Marber, (one day the image of Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan that pops up at the mention of his name will pass), and, all things considered I liked what I saw…

  August 31, 2018
• Culture London Theatre

  London theatre recommendations as at September 2018

  One or two of you have ill advisedly remarked that I haven’t sent one of these out for a bit. Sorry I am just naturally indolent.  Details below but for those of you who can’t be arsed to wade through all of that and trying to avoid the outre stuff,…

  August 29, 2018