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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
• Classical Music Culture Enlightenment Identity London Love Magic Opera Relationship

  The Magic Flute at the ENO review *****

  The Magic Flute English National Opera, 28th March 2019 I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When opera works there is no other art form to touch. But when it doesn’t it can be mystifyingly dull. What’s more it can be the very same opera which is both…

  April 16, 2019
• Acting Culture Friendship London Love Memory Relationship Theatre

  Betrayal at the Harold Pinter Theatre review *****

  Betrayal Harold Pinter Theatre, 1st April 2019 The Tourist never had a great deal of confidence in his ability in his chosen career. Unfortunate in a world where self-belief is everything, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it was misplaced. Still many of those he had cause to…

  April 14, 2019
• Culture Friendship London Love Relationship Theatre

  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…

  March 16, 2019
• Animation Classics Comedy Culture London Love Performance Poetry Theatre War

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses at the Vaults Festival review *****

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses Pants on Fire, Vaults Festival, 23rd February Seven years in to the Vaults Festival and finally the Tourist takes the plunge. If there is a cutting edge to avoid you can be sure the Tourist finds it. It is not even as if the Waterloo location is inconvenient.…

  March 13, 2019
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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…

  March 11, 2019
• Comedy Culture London Love Memory Theatre

  Keep: Daniel Kitson at Battersea Arts Centre review *****

  Keep, Daniel Kitson Battersea Arts Centre, 20th January 2019 Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Kitson. I know, I know. He is only a stand-up comedian. So comparing him to these master explorers of the absurdity of the human condition is, to say the least, stretching it a bit. However, as those of…

  February 4, 2019
• Comedy Culture History London Love Restoration Theatre

  The Double Dealer at the Orange Tree review ****

  The Double Dealer Orange Tree Theatre, 7th January 2019 Now everyone know’s that Restoration comedy is a tricky customer. What with the humour built on misogyny, that’s if it is funny at all. The satire of a social class few of us recognise. Texts are so thick, built on repartee,…

  January 17, 2019
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  The Favourite film review *****

  The Favourite, 3rd January 2019 The more theatre I see, the more I am turning into an insufferably superior luvvie. “A play will always trump a film because it is organic, dynamic, viewed from multiple perspectives, energised by audience complicity, palpable, alive, more daring in terms of form and structure”…

  January 15, 2019
• Culture Feminism London Love Musicals Sexuality Theatre

  Company at the Gielgud theatre review ****

  Company Gielgud Theatre, 29th November 2018 Regular readers will know that the Tourist doesn’t like musicals. However, with Company now ranking alongside Follies, Caroline, Or Change, Groundhog Day, Gypsy, Girl From the North Country, Junkyard and White Teeth, the list of exceptions to the rule is growing alarmingly long. Looks…

  December 21, 2018