Category: Politics
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Pinter at Pinter 6 review *****
Pinter at Pinter Six: Party Time and Celebration Harold Pinter Theatre, 17th January 2019 This for me was the best off the bunch so far in the Pinter at Pinter one act play season. And proof that Jamie Lloyd is the Man when it comes to directing the menacing Master.…
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The Tragedy of King Richard the Second at the Almeida Theatre review ****
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second Almeida Theatre, 9th January 2019 Vain, frivolous, self pitying, introverted. Richard II doesn’t come across too well at the beginning of this play, Shakespeare’s first instalment of his histories that chart the origins of the “War of the Roses” and end with the…
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library review *****
Anglo-Saxon Kingsdoms: Art, Word, War British Library, 30th December 2018 I mean it isn’t all books. There are charters and letters as well. And pottery, coins, art and jewels. But there are a lot of books. Oh my word though, what beautiful books. If you are at all interested in…
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Borders (*****) and Games (****) at the Arcola Theatre review
Borders and Games Arcola Theatre, 22nd December 2018 I had only seen one of Henry Naylor’s acclaimed plays prior to this double header and that was Angel at this very venue. That was enough to know that I like the cut of his jib. Mr Naylor, prior to writing plays,…
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Mistero Buffo at the Arcola Theatre review ****
Mistero Buffo Arcola Theatre, 15th November 2018 This probably ranks as one of the Tourist’s least insightful assertions, (and trust me there is stiff and substantial competition), but, in his experience, there are two types of one person theatre. The pure monologue, often fairly static, relying on the appeal of…
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The Madness of George III at the Nottingham Playhouse review *****
The Madness of George III Nottingham Playhouse, 13th November 2018 Flushed with success from his visit to Manchester the Tourist hopped on a train across the Peak District to the proud city of Sheffield, (where I see the Theatres will be staging a Rutherford and Sons next year ahead of…
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Forgotten at the Arcola Theatre review ****
Forgotten Arcola Theatre, 10th November 2018 I was much taken, if not entirely convinced, by the British East Asian Yellow Earth Theatre company’s version of Tamburlaine at the Arcola 18 months ago. And this co-production, with Moongate, of a new play, Forgotten, by Daniel York Loh, which kicked off at…
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Don Carlos at the Rose Kingston review ****
Don Carlos Rose Theatre Kingston, 9th November 2018 No one could accuse Friedrich Schiller of holding back in Don Carlos. Goethe inspired Sturm und Drang Romanticism, a Kantian paean to the centrality of personal freedom and democracy, the clash of liberty and tyranny, a stab at the sublime, a (loose)…
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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…
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Pinter at the Pinter One review ****
Pinter at the Pinter One Harold Pinter Theatre, 18th October Press Conference Precisely The New World Order Mountain Language American Football The Pres and an Officer Death One for the Road Ashes to Ashes Just so you are clear. These are plays by Harold Pinter. Did I mention that? A…
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The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre review *****
The Jungle Playhouse Theatre, 4th October 2018 So this was my second attempt to see The Jungle. I had to bail out of the first halfway through as my back wasn’t up to squatting on the floor of the Young Vic. This is not a complaint. Given the subject it…
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