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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
• Acting Culture Film Jazz London Manchester Relationship Theatre

  A Taste of Honey at Richmond Theatre review ***

  A Taste Of Honey Richmond Theatre, 9th October 2019 Not quite sure I know how a production such as this is taken under the wing of the National Theatre, and let’s face it it’s none of my business anyway. But I do think I can work out why this particular…

  November 17, 2019
• Culture London Manchester Theatre

  Harper Regan at the Tabard Theatre review ****

  Harper Regan Tabard Theatre, 1st June 2019 The Tourist’s first visit to the Tabard Theatre in leafy Chiswick, which given its proximity, its longevity, it has been around since 1985, and the quirky breadth of its repertoire, new plays and revivals, own and other productions, must count as a massive…

  June 25, 2019
• Culture Ireland Manchester Theatre

  A Skull in Connemara at the Oldham Coliseum review ****

  A Skull in Connemara Oldham Coliseum, 28th February 2019 Two successive nights. Two revivals of comedies looking at the nature of “Irishness”. Martin McDonagh’s A Skull in Connemara and Marie Jones Stones in His Pockets. Which did the Tourist prefer? McDonagh’s black comedy of course. Bit trickier to get to,…

  March 20, 2019
• Capitalism Culture Economics Manchester Power Theatre War

  Mother Courage and her Children at the Royal Exchange Manchester review ****

  Mother Courage and her Children Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 28th February 2019 Brecht. Royal Exchange. Headlong (This House, People, Places and Things, Labour of Love, Common, Junkyard, 1984, The Glass Menagerie, American Psycho and Enron – and that’s just what I can vouchsafe), Anna Jordan adapting, Amy Hodge, the Associate…

  March 19, 2019
• Culture Manchester Theatre USA

  Death of a Salesman at the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester review *****

  Death of  a Salesman Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, 12th November 2018 The greatest English language play from the second half of the C20? Waiting for Godot? All That Fall? Or maybe Beckett’s Endgame? No, too tricky by half. A Streetcar Named Desire? It just about sneaks in time-wise but too…

  November 26, 2018
• 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